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VOLUME I 

PAGES 1 TO 97S 



ALBANY, N. Y. 

J. B. LYON COMPANY. STATE PRINTERS 

1905-1911 



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INTRODUCTION. ' ' 

On February 15, 1905. the late Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, 
uncle of the then President of the United States, invited to 
his residence at No. 57 Fifth Avenue, New York City, the 
representatives of various patriotic and historical societies 
with a view to effecting an organization for the purpose of 
celebrating in 1909 the three hundredth anniversary of the 
exploration of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in 
1609. The Committee there organized requested the Hon. 
George B. McClellan, Mayor of the City of New York, and 
the late Hon. Francis W. Higgins, Governor of the State 
of New York, officially to name committees of citizens of 
the City and the State of New York to act jointly in ar- 
ranging such a celebration. Those officials selected 150 
gentlemen to act in that capacity and they constituted the 
Hudson Tercentenary Joint Committee. That Committee 
was permanently organized December 5, 1905, and held its 
first meeting for the transaction of business December 16, 

1905. It continued in existence and active operation until 
May 4, 1906, when, pursuant to its resolution of April 16, 

1906, it was dissolved and merged into the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission under the following circumstances : 

During the course of the meetings of the Hudson Ter- 
centenary Joint Committee it developed that there was in 
existence a committee of citizens appointed by the Mayor 
of the City of New York to arrange for the celebration in 
1907 of the first practical application of steam to naviga- 
tion on the Hudson River in 1807. 

It appearing that two celebrations, so closely related in 
their significance and so near each other in point of time, 
might advantageously be combined, steps were taken, with 
the approval of the Mayor, to secure a charter to unite both 
movements. Such a charter was secured by special act of 
the Legislature, chapter 325 of the laws of 1906, which 
became a law by the Governor's signature on April 27, 1906. 

Ill 



The corporation thus created, and entitled the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission, formally organized May 4, 
1906, and thereafter conducted the arrangements for the 
Celebration. 

The Official Minutes of the Hudson Tercentenary Joint 
Committee and of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, paged consecutively, were printed in pamphlet 
form from time to time and sent to every member of the 
Commission, a few copies of each edition being reserved 
for collation and binding for the public libraries when the 
work of the Commission should have been completed. The 
work of the Commission now having been virtually com- 
pleted, these Minutes have been collated, indexed and bound 
in two volumes, aggregating 1967 pages, for deposit in a 
certain number of i)ublic libraries. No more copies of 
these Minutes are available and they are not for sale. 

A complete official history of the Celebration, however, 
has been printed under the title, " The Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration, 1909," being the Fourth Annual Report of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission to the Legislature 
of the State of New York, transmitted to the Legislature 
May 20, 1910. It is in two volumes, aggregating xvi + 1421 
pages, and may be consulted in the principal libraries of 
the Lhiited States and Europe. Inquiries concerning other 
copies may be addressed to the J. B. Lyon Company, 
State Printers, at Albany, N. Y. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Headquarters of the Commission, 

The Tribune Building, New York City. 
August i, 1911. 



IV 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Page 

Map of Verplanck's Point 220 

Official Medal, preliminary design 630 

Cross-section (5f Clermont by Robert Fulton 651 

Autograph of Robert Fulton 651 

Drawing of Half Moon replica 652 

Plans of Clermont replica 653 

Hudson's Last Voyage, Collier's painting 805 

Map of Hudson's four voyages 8r6 

Drawing of Half Moon replica 821 

'Portrait of Robert Fulton 832 

Plans of Clermont replica 1. . . 842 

Sketch of Official Badge 958 

Hudson Monument design 067 

Official Badge medallion 1 120 

Official Poster 1 120 

Official Medal, final design 1 196 

Official Badge, final design 1210 

Fort Amsterdam tablet design 1260 

Half Moon replica, view of bow with crew 1268 

Half Moon replica, view of stern 1270 

Half Moon replica, view of foredeck 1272 

Half Moon replica, view of afterdeck 1274 

Official Flag in colors 1300 

Portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm presented by him to 

Herman Ridder i^g 

Gold Medals presented to Herman Ridder and 

Henry W. Sackett 1748 



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Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 

l3icc=B5re6i6cnt8 
Hon. Robrrt V. Roosevelt Hon. Levi P. Morton 

Andrew Carnegie William Rockefeller 

BRiG.-GhN. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. William B. Van Rensselaer 

Morris K. Jesup Hon. Andrkw 1). White 

treasurer 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 

23 Wall Street, New York 

Secretary assistant Secretary 

Henry W. Sackett Edward Hagaman Hall 

Tribune Building, New York Tribune Building, New York 



Permanently Organized, December 5, 1905 



Executive Committee 



Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, aair.an 18 Wall Stre^et New York 

»°"- ^^^"L^Jv^^'^''^ "-"/.V^Wan street New York 

James M. Beck 44 ^ york 

S°"- -'u rlnnon' "" " '" '--"-'lo Wall Street New York 

^""T C^rTeZ " 2 East 91st Street, New York 

^ in<5nh H Choat'e '" 60 Wall Street New York 

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Hon. J. Sloat Fassett ---- -- i^-Elr""^' S'"" v "^ 

-ru .i,^,« v\trh 120 Broadway, New York 

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Thomas Powell Fowler 56 Beaver Street, New Yo k 

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Siss Helen M.Gould 579 Fifth Avenue, New York 

Brie -Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, U. S. A Governor s Island, New York 

Edward Hagaman Hall Tribune Building, New York 

Hon. Warren Higley 68 West 40th Street. New York 

Hon. David B. Hill i,---j^?^"^' S ? '^ 

Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard 25 Broad Street, New York 

Aucrnst F Taccaci ....7 West 43d Street, New York 

CrWiLIn JaT;/.V- 48 Wall Street, New York 

MnrrU K Tesuo ..44 Pine Street, New York 

GeT Hora/i? C."King-;;;;;;:; ^, -375' FuUon street, Brooklyn 

Dr. George F. Kunz Tiffany & Company, New York 

John LaFarge 5i West loth Street, New York 

Or Henry M. Leipziger Park Avenue & SQlh Street, New York 

Hon. SethLow 30 East 64th Street, New York 

Frank D. Millet. ..- - 6 East 23d Street, New York 

William J. McKay .Newburgh, New York 

: Emerson McMillin 320 Riverside Avenue, New York 

Hon. Levi P. Morton 38 Nassau Street, New \ork 

; Fben E Olcott Desbrosses Street Pier, New York 

^ John E.- Sr^ons ;::;:;: 52 Wmiam street, New York 

iHon.Sereno E.Payne... Auburn. New York 

:Gen. Horace Porler Union League Club, New York 

I Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley "rf ''^''""' m""" V rt 

; Louis C. Raegener ^^V^'^°^'^r^' m""" VnrU 

i Hon. Herman Ridder.. - --"^^ ?J°" j^^'^' S^"" V J 

i William Rockefeller .26 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt 57 Fifth Avenue, New York 

I Col. Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York 

1 President J. G. Schurman ir^^''^'^' xt"''' v°''b 

; Hon. Frederick W. Seward. .Montrose, New York 

i Charles Stewart Smith 25 West 47th Street, New York 

I Francis Lynde Stetson I5 Broad Street, New York 

Hon. Oscars. Straus.... 5 West 76th Street, New York 

■ Cornelius Vanderbilt 15 Washington Square, New York 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D ...Princeton, New Jersejt 

William B. Van Rensselaer Albany, New \ork 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward ^^^""^ ' ^^ X'^'l 

. Hon. Andrew D. White Ithaca, New York 

^ Gen. James Grant Wilson 15 East 74th Street, New York 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

December i6, 1905 

The first meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee was held at the 
Hotel Manhattan, New York City, Saturday evening, 
December i6th, 1905, at 8:30 (/clock. 

Present : Messrs. James M. Beck, William J. Curtis, 
Theodore Fitch, Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren 
Higley, August F. Jaccaci, Dr. George F. Kunz, William 
J. McKay, Emerson McMillin, Henry W. Sackett, Hon. 
Frederick W. Seward Charles Stewart Smith, Dr. Samuel 
B. Ward, and Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. 

Regrets for inability to be present were received from 
the following and they were excused : Messrs. Thomas 
Powell Fowler, Frank D. Millet, Eben E. Olcott. John E. 
Parsons, Hon. Sereno E. Payne, President J. G. Schurman, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, and Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D. 

The Committee organized permanently by the unani- 
mous election of the following officers : 

Chairman, General Stewart L. Woodford. 

Secretary, Henry W. Sackett. 

Assistant Secretary, Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Mr. Sackett moved that a committee of three be ap- 
pointed to confer with the Assistant Secretary as to com- 
pensation. The motion was carried and the Chairman 
appointed Mr. Sackett, Judge Higley and Mr. Fitch. 

After a brief discussion of finances— in the course of 
which the Secretary recalled the action of the Joint Com- 
mittee on December 5, 1905, requesting him to invite the 
members of the Joint Committee to contribute i>io each 
toward immediate expenses — Mr. Beck moved, as a further 
measure, that the Finance Committee be requested to take 
appropriate steps as soon as convenient to secure funds 
for necessary preliminary expenses. Carried. 

The Chairman then requested the members, one after 
another, to express their views as to the character of the 
proposed celebration, and informal remarks were made by 
Mr. Beck, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Fitch, Mr. Hall, Judge Higley, 



4 December i6, 1905 

Mr. Jaccaci, Dr. Kunz, Mr. McKay, Mr. McMillin, Mr. 
Sackett, Secretary Seward, Mr. Smith, and Dr. Ward. 

The ideas tentatively advanced by the various speakers 
may be summarized as follows : 

As the central theme of the celebration was Hudson's 
voyage to and up the river which bears his name, it was 
suggested that the celebration should not be local, but 
should be arranged so as to enlist the interest and partici- 
pation of every community along the river from New York 
City as far as Troy at least. 

Hudson's achievement having been a triumph of navi- 
gation, it was the general sentiment that a naval parade 
would be a most appropriate feature, the water pageant to 
include ships of the American and Foreign Navies as well 
as our Merchant Marine. 

It was suggested that additional interest might be 
given to the river parade, and the intimate connection of 
the river with the history of steam navigation might be 
shown, by combining with the celebration a commemora- 
tion of the centennial anniversary of the action of the 
legislature in 1809 in granting to Fulton the exclusive 
privilege of navigating the Hudson. Out of this action, 
it was said, grew the famous case of Gibbons vs. Ogden, 
establishing the right of free navigation. 

It was also recommended as an instructive and pic- 
turesque feature of the water celebration that a fac-simile 
of the Half Moon be built, in Holland if possible, other- 
wise in America, and that it should arrive in the Harbor 
and proceed up the river to Albany and return, duplicating 
the anchorages of the original ship, with local demonstra- 
tions en route. 

It was proposed that there should be in addition to 
the local celebrations up the river, a series of land celebra- 
tions in the City of New York. The suggestions for the 
latter included a military and civic parade, with floats 
bearing a series of historical tableaux ; five great central 
meetings in the respective Boroughs, with literary exer- 
cises ; appropriate observances in the public schools ; and 
special ceremonies at the dedication of such permanent 
structures as might be erected. 

There appeared to be a unanimous sentiment that the 
large amount of money which, it was thought, would be 



December i6, 1905 5 

spent on the commemoration, should not be spent alto- 
gether on transient affairs, but that the Ter-Centenary 
should materialize into one or more permanent memorials 
which should beautify the city, and possess historical or 
practical value, or both. 

First among these was mentioned the Hudson Memo- 
rial Bridge, to span Spuyten Duyvil Creek from Inwood 
Hill to Spuyten Duyvil Hill. The opinions expressed with 
reference to this were practically a unit in favor of adopt- 
ing the bridge as a leading feature. (This structure was 
projected by the Hudson Tri-Centennial Association, which, 
in a courteous letter to the Joint Committee, dated Novem- 
ber 20th, 1905, "takes pleasure in giving way, for the large 
work which must now be done, lo the officially appointed 
Joint Committee of the State and City." The preliminary 
work of that Association led to the recent appropriation 
of $1,000,000 by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
toward the erection of the structure, which will cost about 
$2,500,000.) 

Connected with the bridge idea was the suggestion of 
taking for a public park the beautiful Inwood Hill, which, 
in its physical features, remains in practically the same 
condition in which it appeared to Hudson, and around 
which may still be seen the shell heaps left by the abori- 
gines. It was suggested, however, that the Committee 
should exert its influence in determining the exact location 
of the bridge abutment, so that the engineers would rot 
intiict any material disfigurement on the knoll. 

In addition to the Hudson Memorial Bridge, it was 
sugg-ested that a Memorial Arch be erected at an entrance 
to Central Park, like the Arc de I'Etoile on the Champs 
Elysee, Paris. 

Another idea advanced in this line was for a Water- 
Gate at the Battery, to be the ceremonial Gateway to the 
Metropolis. 

It was suggested by several that some institution 
should be designated as a depositary of documents and 
relics relative to the Hudson. Such a collection, it was 
thought, would be of enormous historical and human in- 
terest. 

This idea, in the mind of one speaker, took the form 
of an addition to the New York Historical Society build- 



6 December i6, 1905 

ing on C'intral Park West, near the American Museum of 
Natural History. 

A great art miuseum, containing a collection of the 
masterpieces of the country, was another jiroposition. 

This, in turn, elicited the information that the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art had been authorized to expend 
$1,250,000 for an addition to the Museum for its own pur- 
poses ; that work would soon begin on the extension ; that 
the plans of the Museum provided for still further develop- 
ment ; and that with the co-operation of this Committee, 
the addition might be extented so as to accommodate the 
suggested Ter-Centenary art collection. 

It appeared to be the predominating sentiment of the 
speakers that a World's Fair, in the temporary sense in 
which the term is generally understood, was inadvisable; 
but that whatever exposition was held should be projected 
with the idea of permanence. One speaker expressed the 
idea that New York, like London, was "too cosmopolitan 
for a glorified agricultural show," but that a preliminary 
exhibition might be arranged in 1909, and by 1910 it could 
be put in shape as a permanent exposition. Another 
speaker expressed the opinion that western and northwest- 
ern states like Oregon would erect permanent buildings and 
maintain permanent exhibits. 

As to the location of the permanent exposition, while 
some of the members who spoke on the subject expressed 
themselves as preferring a near site rather than one remote 
from New York, they held their minds open. They thought 
the Committee should hear the arguments judicially and 
determine them on their merits, being cautious, however, 
in regard to any project that savored of real estate specula- 
tion. 

A Commercial Museum was another idea that found 
expression. 

It was suggested that as soon as practicable, the com- 
mittee invite some of the leading cartologists and historical 
authorities of the country to unite in a committee for the 
purpose of studying critically the original authorities con- 
cerning the anchorages and courses of Hudson's ship, from 
its advent into the harbor to the time of its departure, with 
a view to preparing an official chart which should explain, 
as far as possible, the obscurities now surrounding the 



December i6. 1905 7 

subject and establishing a standard map of the " Half 
Moon's" route. 

The last suggestion of the evening was that the com- 
mittee arrange with some publisher for the pioduction of 
a monumental history of New York City, embracing trea- 
tise on the Hudson. 

The dominant idea throughout the whole discussion 
was that of permanency and making haste slowly. 

The Secretary said that he had received letters con- 
taining various suggestions — including one for a drive 
along the Palisades — and that the letters would be laid be- 
fore the Committee when it was ready to take up the matter. 

Some discussion ensued as to whether the Executive 
Committee should appeal to the public at once for sugges- 
tions, or first appoint a sub-committee, consisting of some 
members of the Executive Committee and some of the 
Joint Committee, to evolve a tentative plan. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the Executive Committee hold 
a public meeting in the Governor's Room of the City Hall, 
at an early date, to be designated by the chairman, at which 
meeting any person having suggestions to offer may be 
heard ; and that notice be given that suggestions in writ- 
ing may also be communicated to the Committee through 
the secretary. Carried. 

Mr. Beck moved that a committee of three be ap- 
pointed by the chairman — and that the chairman himself 
also be a member of the Committee ex-officio — to confer, 
when they deem it expedient, with the President of the 
United States, the Secretary of State of the United States, 
the Governor of the State of New York and the Mayor of 
the City of New York, and elicit from them, if possible, 
their views upon the plan of the celebration. Carried. 
The chairman appointed upon such committee, Messrs. 
James M. Beck, Charles S. Francis, and Herman 
Ridder. 

Mr. Sackett moved that in pursuance of the plan of 
organization adopted by the Joint Committee, December 
5, 1905, the president be requested to add seven gentlemen 
to the Executive Committee, at the same time reading, by 
way of suggestion, the names of : Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
Hon. Charles S. Francis, the Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Dr. 
Henry M. Leipziger, Louis C. Raegner, Francis I.ynde 



8 December i6, 1905 

Stetson, and Gen. James Grant Wilson. Carried. The 
President thereupon announced the appointment of the 
gentlemen named. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the quorum of the Executive 
Committee be fixed at nine. Carried. 

Mr. Fitch moved that all the minutes of the Committee 
be kept by the secretary and entered in a suitable book. 
Carried. 

Dr. Ward moved that the minutes be printed and sent 
to all the members of the Committee. Carried. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the secretary be authorized to 
have printed the necessary stationery for officers and com- 
mittees. Carried. 

He also moved that the secretary be authorized to em- 
ploy a stenographer to take the minutes verbatim when 
the secretary deemed it advisable. Carried. 

An informal expression of preferences as to the most 
convenient evening of the week for Committee meetings 
was invited by the chairman, and the majority were in 
favor of Fridays. 

It was voted that the very hearty thanks of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee be extended to Mr. Wm. S. Hawk, a 
member of the Joint Committee, for his courtesy in extend- 
ing to the Executive Committee the hospitality of the Hotel 
Manhattan for its meetings. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



3oiut Committee 



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XE^\)t ^oternor of t\)t ^mt of j^eto |^orfe anu 

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pres(^ent 
Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 

^Dice=Ipre8(^ents 
Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt Hon. Levi P. Morton 

Andrew Carnegie William Rockefeller 

Brig.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. William B. Van Rensselaer 

Morris K. Jesup Hon. Andrew D. White 

ttreagurer 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 

23 Wall Street, New York 

Secretary assistant Secretary 

Henry W. Sackett Eovv-ard Hagaman Hall 

Tribune Building, New York Tribune Building, New York 



Permanently Organiaed, December 5, iqos 



iniiiutes of December 29, 1905 



Executive Committee 



Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman 18 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. Franks. Black Troy, New York 

James M. Beck 44 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J. Rider Cady Hudson, New York 

Henry W. Cannon 10 Wall Street, New York 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East gist Street, New York 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 60 Wall Street, New York 

William J. Curtis.. .49 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett... ..Elmira, New York 

Theodore Fitch 120 Broadway, New York 

Frederick de Peyster Foster 18 Wall Street, New York 

Thomas Powell Fowler 56 Beaver Street, New York 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis Troy, New York 

Hon. William W. Goodrich 49 Wall Street, New York 

Brig.-Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, U. S. A Governor's Island, New York 

Edward Hagaman Hall Tribune Building, New York 

Hon. Warren Higley 68 West 40th Street, New York 

Hon. David B. Hill Albany, New York 

August F. Jaccaci. 7 West 43d Street, New York 

Col. William Jay 48 Wall Street, New York 

Morris K. Jesup ---44 Pine Street, New York 

Gen. Horatio C. King.. --375 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 

Dr. George F. Kunz Tiffany cS: Company, New York 

John La Farge 51 West loth Street, New York 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. Park Avenue & 59th Street, New York 

Hon. Seth Low 30 East 64th Street, New York 

Frank D. Millet. 6 East 23d Street, New York 

William J. McKay Newburgh, New York 

Emerson McMillin. 320 Riverside Avenue, New York 

Hon. Levi P. Morton 38 Nassau Street, New York 

Eben E. Olcott Desbrosses Sireet Pier, New York 

John E. Parsons.- 52 William Street, New York 

Hon. Sereno E. Payne Auburn, New York 

Gen. Horace Porter Union League Club, New York 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peekskill, New York 

Louis C. Raegener . 141 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Herman Ridder 2 Tryon Row, New York 

William Rockefeller 26 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt <^i Fifth Avenue, New York 

Col. Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York 

President J. G. Schurman Ithaca, New York 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, New York 

Charles Stewart Smith 25 West 47th Street, New York 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus 5 West 76th Street, New York 

Cornelius Vanderbilt .--I5 Washington Square, New York 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D Princeton, New Jersey 

William B. Van Rensselaer Albany, New York 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany, New York 

Hon. Andrew D. White Ithaca, New York 

Gen. James Grant Wilson 621 Fifth Avenue, New York 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

December 29, 1905 

The second meeting of the Executive Committee of 
the Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee was held in 
public in the Governor's Room of the City Hall, New 
York, Friday, December 29, 1905, at 2.30 p. m., for the 
purpose of listening to suggestions concerning the form of 
the proposed celebration in 1909. 

Present : The Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 
and Messrs. James M. Beck, William J. Curtis, Theodore 
Fitch, Hon. Willliam W. Goodrich, Edward Hagaman 
Hall, August F. Jaccaci, Gen. Horatio C. King, Frank D. 
Millet, William J. McKay, Louis C. Raegener, Hon. Herman 
Kidder, Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Charles Stewart Smith and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Messrs. 
Andrew Carnegie (through Mr. Smith), Thomas Powell 
Fowler, Hon. Chas. S. Francis, Hon. Seth Low, Eben E. 
Olcott, John E. Parsons, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, Presi- 
dent J. G. Schurman, Dr. Samuel B. Ward and Hon. 
Andrew D. White, and they were excused. 

The Chairman reported for record that since the last 
meeting Miss Helen M. Gould, Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard 
and Miss Anna T, Van Santvoord had expressed with re- 
gret their inability to serve on the committee, and that he 
had appointed Col. William Jay in place of Miss Van Sant- 
voord. 

The Chairman announced the readiness of the Com- 
mittee to receive suggestions from anyone present in 
regard to the proposed celebration in 1909. 

Mr. Edward Wells, Jr., of No. 141 Broadway, New 
York, spoke first. He said he represented a voluntary 
Citizens Committee of which Mr. John R. Van Wormer 
was president. He spoke nine minutes in favor of a per- 
manent world's exposition. He said that the organization 
which he represented had made a careful canvass of many 
people and that their sentiment, with that of the press 
throughout the country, was favorable to a permanent 
exposition. They conceded the impracticability of a 



12 December 29, 1905 

World's Fair in the ordinary meaning of that term. Their 
proposition was that a great exposition, with permanent 
structures, should be established near New York, prefera- 
bly on the Hudson River. They were not committed to 
any site. They believed such an exposition, with proper 
branches in foreign countries, would greatly stimulate our 
commerce with Europe and South America, and that it 
could 1)6 established on a paying business basis. He stated 
that the Lewis and Clarke Exposition had repaid in one 
vear 40 per cent, of the cost of maintenance and construc- 
tion and asked, if that were so, why the Hudson Exposi- 
tion could not return 100 per cent, in ten years. 

Mr. J. C. Pumpelly of 2881 Broadway, New York, 
spoke two minutes in favor of the Hudson Memorial 
Bridge across Spuyten Duyvil Creek and hoped the Com- 
mittee would not permit the exposition idea to override or 
interfere with it. 

Mr. H. Roosevelt Ostrom of 205 West 103d St., New 
York, spoke two minutes in favor of an arch which would 
depict the different historical events leading up to the dis- 
covery and settlement of New York. As a Dutch descend- 
ant, he thought it a shame that there was no memorial to 
the founders of the commonwealth. If there were an expo- 
sition, the most effective exhibition would be a municipal 
museum, starting with the Dutch, and expressing the par- 
ticipation also of the English, Irish and Jews in the 
development of the city. 

Mr. J. F. Duhamel of No. 202 Bay 28th street, Ben- 
sonhurst (Borough of Brooklyn), representing the Taxpay- 
ers' and Rentpayers' Association of the 30th and 31st 
Wards of Brooklyn, spoke two minutes in favor of the 
historical propriety of erecting some memorial or statue 
in one of the parks along the shores of Gravesend Bay, 
where Hudson is believed to liave landed first in New York 
State. He suggested Bensonhurst Park as the best site. 

Mr. Chas. L. Rickerson, of 212 West Street, New York, 
President of the Greene County Society in New York and 
a resident also of the Catskills, spoke thirteen minutes in 
favor of a water carnival along the whole river. He would 
make prominent the scenery and resources of the river ; 
show the progress of navigation by a naval pageant com- 
posed of every type of vessel, from the Indian dug-out to 



December 29, 1905 13 

the modern steamship ; and he would have an electric 
illumination of the shores, to show the development in 
light-making from the first bonfire illumination by the 
Indians which greeted Henry Hudson. The people like 
diversion, he said, as was illustrated by the presence of 
100,000 people in the streets of Albany at the recent Hal- 
lowe'en Carnival, and he believed that every inhabitant 
for 20 miles on each side of the Hudson would drive 
to the river to participate in or witness the river carnival 
in 1909. 

Mr. Gordon H. Peck of Haverstraw, N. Y., a trustee 
of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 
read a letter from the Board of Trustees communicating 
the offer of Mr. Francis Bannerman of New York, a mem- 
ber of the Society, toerect at his own expense a monumental 
statue of Hudson onPolopel's Island in Newburgh Bay, on 
condition that its dedication should form part of the cere- 
monies in 1909. The proposed statue would be about 30 
feet high,' on a pedestal 40 feet high, which, with the island 
as a naturalbase, would make the whole about 100 feet high 
above the river. Mr. Bannerman, who owns the island, 
also offers to throw it open thereafter to the public on Sat- 
urdays and holidays, so long as visitors make proper use 
of their privileges. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown, of No. 509 Fifth Avenue,New York, 
read a paper entitled," Reasons Why a Permanent Interna- 
tional World's Fairshould be established at New York ; and 
why Verplanck's Point on the Hudson is the Only Perfect 
Location for It." The principal points of the paper, the 
reading of which occupied thirteen minutes, were as follows: 
New York is the Mecca of the World. A permanent world's 
fair at New York would bring our ocean steamers back from 
abroad with full cabins in spring and summer, after cross- 
ing with full cabins from America; and fill them on their 
outgoing trips in the fall, taking back foreign visitors, where 
now they cross empty. The large business houses of New 
York favor a permanent exposition, to promote the sale of 
surplus products. By its means our country will learn 
what can be had from abroad. The result will be a salu- 
tary rivalry in all industries. It will furnish an additional 
incentive to people in all parts of the country to visit New 
York. It will enlighten them and stimulate business here. 



14 December 29, 1905 

To be represented at St. Louis, France and Germany gave 
$1,000,000 each; England, $750,000 ; Brazil, $500,000, and 
forty other countries in proportion. So New York can 
expect great support. 

As to the site, the speaker said that Verplanck's Point 
had been examined by landscape architects, engineers, 
military, marine and sanitary experts, merchants, manu- 
facturers and financiers, who could find no objection to it. 
He dwelt on its healthfulness; its accessibility b)'^ land and 
water; its scenic beauty; its historic associations, and its 
adaptability to every kind of exhibit, including reproduc- 
tions of Pompeiian excavations, cliff-dwellings, a Holland 
Village, or old New York, the Sphinx, Venice in miniature, 
floating gardens of Japan, automobile track, a vast audi- 
torium, an Eiffel tower, and exhibits of the art and com- 
mercial products of the world. It would be a university 
for all people. It would invite the rapid settlement of that 
section, and keep New Yorkers from going to New Jersey 
to reside. In 1909 it would be within thirty-five minutes 
of Grand Central Station, New York, by the electric trains 
of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. 

This site, he said, had been secured under option at a 
price no greater than the amount awarded the City of St. 
Louis for the damage done to the park by the Fair, which 
is about $1,000,000. The same amount of ground would 
cost 1200,000,000 on Manhattanville Heights, New York; 
$100,000,000 on Washington Heights, New York ; $30,000,- 
000 at Yonkers ; $20,000,000 at Tarrytown, and $5,000,000 at 
Croton. 

As to the financial side^ he said that the New York 
Central Railroad Company had expressed its disposition 
to aid the fair as much as possible. If the Railroad Com- 
pany, the State and the Federal Government would loan 
$3,000,000 each at 5 per cent., to be paid back at the rate 
of $1,000,000 a year, from 1910 ; each appropriate $1,000,- 
000 for their own buildings, etc., and pay the Fair Company 
$t, 000,000 each for full value in concessions, he thought 
this would be a modest request. This 115,000,000, with 
$5,000,000 from bonds issued, and $5,000,000 in stock sold, 
would float the project. 

He said that last year Luna Park (Coney Island) netted 
twenty-three cents profit on each visitor, and Chicago Park 



December 29. 1905 15 

sixty cents. Even with half the admission price charged 
at St. Louis, he claimed that the stock in five years would 
pay better than Standard Oil. 

He closed by saying: " Patriotic citizens of the Hudson 
have secured about 1,500 acres of this land and will turn it 
over to the fair at actual cost of time and money, and the 
Company can get the ground at a million or two less than 
it could be purchased to-day, if this precaution had not 
been taken." 

Dr. Brown also filed with the Committee a supplemen- 
tary paper, giving a financial prospectus of the exposition. 
It proposed to raise $25,000,000 for the floatation of the 
project, as follows : 

" The Exposition Company to be capitalized at $15,- 
000,000, and to issue $!5, 000,000 of 5 per cent, redemption 
bonds against the real estate and other property, |i,ooo,- 
000 of which bonds are to be payable January ist, 1910, 
and li, 000,000 in each succeeding year for four years ; these 
bonds to be sold at par, to carry $250,000 of stock and a 
bonus of $500,000 in admission tickets, making 15 per cent, 
bonus ; 15,000,000 to be obtained from the Federal Gov- 
ernment, $5,000,000 from the State, and $5,000,000 from the 
City of New York ; in each case $3,000,000 to be repaid in 
the three annual payments of $1,000,000 each, beginning 
January ist, 1910 ; of the remaining $2,000,000, in each 
case, $1, 000,000 is to defray the cost of the buildings and 
exhibits of the Federal Government, State and City respect- 
ively, leaving $1,000,000, in each case, to be retained by the 
Exposition Company, for which it will give full value in 
grants of land for camps and other concessions." 

The prospectus gives an estimate showing the proposed 
outlay of $24,510,000 to the time of opening in 1909, leaving 
a balance of $490,000, which, with an income of $i,oco,ooo 
from admissions during construction, would leave $1,490,- 
000 in the treasury at the opening. It also gives in detail 
the estimated receipts and disbursements for the next two 
years. The estimated cash receipts for the year are $18,- 
500,000 ; the expenses, $6,700,000, and the profit, $11,800,- 
000. This amount, less 10 per cent, dividend on $15,000,- 
000, or $1,500,000, would leave $10,300,000 '< net balance 
in cash or unsold securities " at the end of the first year. 
The income for the second year is placed at $19,000,000 ; 



1 6 December 29. 1905 

the expense, $6,250,000 ; the profit, ^12,750,000, which, less 
$1,500,000 paid out in dividends, would leave ^i 1,250,000 
" net balance in cash or unsold securities " at the end of the 
second year. 

The Secretary asked Dr. Brown if he would give the 
Committee the details of the options on the property at 
Verplanck's and he promised to do so. 

Mr. George A. Bagley, of Peekskill, was the next 
speaker, occupying nine minutes in advocating Verplanck's 
Point as the only logical site for a permanent exposition. 
He said he represented a committee appointed by the 
President of the Business Men's Association of Peekskill. 
His remarks were substantially a reinforcement of Dr. 
Brown's. He said that if New York State did not avail it- 
self of this offer for a permanent exposition, either Ger- 
many, France or England would do it, and secure its 
attendant advantages. As a business proposition he re- 
garded it as one of the best that could be put before the 
financiers of New York to-day. The exposition would 
afford facilities for such shows as are held at Madison 
Square Garden at one quarter the expense. It would be 
one great salesroom for the buyers of the country who come 
to New York twice a year. He said that it was no land 
scheme ; that they had secured the options so as to turn the 
land over at cost to an exposition com.pany, if it were formed 
and for that purpose alone. 

The Hon. Theodore Sutro, of No. 280 Broadway, New 
York, spoke nine minutes in favor of a celebration which 
would beautify the city and elevate the people, and not one 
devoted to commercialism. He referred to the primeval 
beauty of Manhattan Island and the Hudson, in contrast 
with the present ungainly appearance of the city, with its 
tall buildings and the aspect of the river banks disfigured 
with ice houses and brick-yards ; and he urged the employ- 
ment of the three arts of architecture, sculpture and paint- 
ing to beautify the City and remedy some of its blemishes. 
He endorsed the Hudson Memorial Bridge, for which the 
City has already appropriated $1,000,000, as a means of 
architectural embellishment. In this connection, Inwood 
Hill should certainly be preserved as a public park. He 
would use sculpture to ornament the bridge, and also em- 
ploy it in the erection of an arch. He commended the offer 



December 29, 1905 17 

of a colossal statue of Eludson made through the American 
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. As to the third 
great art, painting, he said that the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art is to spend many millions in enlargement, and could 
be utilized as a treasure house of American Art. He would 
therefore have this Committee co-operate w^ith the Museum, 
either in enlarging its structure or devoting some part of it 
to the celebration. Referring to the Verplanck's Point 
project, he said he regarded it as chimerical. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr., of 1133 Broadway, New 
York, President of the Board of Park Commissioners, rose 
and said : " I desire to say that in my judgment and experi- 
ence it is perfectly impossible in the ordinary way of build- 
ing things in New York to erect that bridge, of the quality 
and character as proposed, by 1909 or 1910, and I feel con- 
fident that the architects in the room will agree with me." 

Mr. Bagley spoke again for a couple of minutes about 
Verplanck's Point, expressing interest in the projects for 
the Bridge, the monument and beautifying the Hudson. 
As all roads led to New York, so all roads would lead to 
Verplanck's Point in 1909, and the exposition people would 
help build the bridge and the other things. 

Mr. A. L. Freed, of No. 30 East 42nd Street, New 
York, devoted two minutes to advocating a permanent ex- 
position in general terms. 

At this point a letter from Thomas Hastings, of the 
firm of Carrere and Hastings, of New York, architects of 
the New York Public Library, was read, advocating the 
widening of the east side of Fifth Avenue between 40th 
and 42nd Streets to correspond with the widening on the 
west side in front of the library. This square, 500 feet 
north and south by 300 east and west, could be paved like 
the Place Vendome in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London 
or the Piazza d'Espagna in Rome, and in it might be 
erected a Hudson Column, like the Column Vendome, the 
Nelson Column or the Trajan Column. The square could 
be called Hudson Square or Place. 

Mr. Richard G Hollaman, of the Eden Musee of New 
York, spoke four minutes. He was in favor of " Hudson 
Square, a bridge, an arch, all part of a gigantic universal ex- 
position such as the world has never seen." He did not advo- 
cate any particular site, but wanted New York to act on the 



i8 December 29, 1905 

Hudson idea before some western city had appropriated it 
as Chicago had appropriated the Columbian idea. He 
would take this occasion to "glorify ourselves as New 
Yorkers," He pictured the magnitude of the Metropolis in 
1909 and said : " Let us glorify the occasion as well as the 
discovery of New York ; let us spread our wings and let 
the eagle scream for New York." 

A spirited colloquy ensued for about three minutes be- 
tween Messrs. Ostrom and Hollaman. Mr. Ostrom argued 
that the only way to glorify New York was by some ideal 
work of art or architecture such as can be embodied in a 
monument or museum, not by a celebration organized 
from a commercial standpoint. Mr. Hollaman contended 
that there was nothing degrading in a commercial exposi- 
tion. 

Gen. Horatio C. King, a member of the Executive 
Committee, interposed the remark that there was one city 
in the United States that did not need any advertising and 
glorifying, and that was the City of New York. 

The Secretary read a letter from the Hon, Robert B. 
Roosevelt, reciting the efforts made to arrange for a cele- 
bration of 1909, since the Holland Society took the initia- 
tive a few years ago. The Holland Society Committee 
considered the idea of a World's Fair but was not pleased 
with it. Then they considered the suggestion that they 
erect a statue to a typical Dutchman. As Hudson was 
not a Dutchman they discarded him and considered 
William the Silent. As William the Silent was not a 
Dutchman either, they appealed to the artists of this 
country for a suggestion, but received no practical help, 
and so have been left to get up a statue of William the 
Silent. They also considered the widening of Riverside 
Drive, the building of a Memorial Bridge and the creation 
of a Park at the northern end of the island, but those things 
were inevitable as city improvements. The Committee had 
regarded the proposed exposition at Verplanck's Point 
with little favor at first, but the more it was considered the 
more possible it seemed of development. He regarded it 
no disadvantage, but possibly an advantage, that commer- 
cial interests were behind the project. 

A letter was read from the Rev. J. Howard Suydam, of 
Hamilton Court, Philadelphia, Pa., recommending co- 



December 29, 1905 19 

operation with the Holland Society in erecting a statue of 
William the Silent. 

A letter was read from J. A. C. Wright, Esq., lawyer, 
of Rochester, N. Y., suggesting that the celebration should 
embody an exposition of all that was noteworthy in con- 
nection with the continental basin of which the Hudson 
was the outlet before the interior waters broke through 
the St. Lawrence channel. He would have the commercial 
side exemplified in the usual exhibition fashion. Then 
there should be a permanent building which should serve 
as a museum, gallery and library for public enlightenment. 
This should contain a relief model of the continental basins 
formerly and now tributary to the Hudson ; exhibits show- 
ing the Indian methods of portage, and collating the dis- 
coveries of Hudson with those of Cabot, De Soto and 
Marquette; illustrations of the artificial waterways; a 
profile of the Hudson channel; and exhibits showing the 
uses and abuses of the international waterways. The letter 
went into the various subjects touched upon with con- 
siderable detail. 

Mr. Frederick W. Wilson, editor of the Newbiirgh 
Daily News, spoke three minutes on behalf of the Business 
Men's Association of Newburgh. He favored a permanent 
exposition on the Hudson and thought that the celebration 
should be conducted from the point of view of the people 
of the State. The Hudson was not an appurtenance of 
New York City and the population along the river were 
entitled to consideration. He did not advocate any par- 
ticular site. 

At the conclusion of his remarks Mr. E. Parmly Brown 
said : '• If the Committee would like to take a trip up the 
Hudson, the New York Central would be glad to furnish 
them with a buffet car and all the conveniences some Sat- 
urday afternoon." " Some of the Committee," he alleged, 
"have never seen the Hudson and we would like to give 
them an opportunity to see it." 

A telegram was read from Mayor John H. Coyne, of 
Yonkers, saying : "I favor celebrating the Hudson Ter- 
centenary by means of a permanent exposition upon the 
banks of the Hudson and will send a delegation to the next 
hearing that will represent the City of Yonkers." 



20 December 29, 1905 

Several other prominent citizens having expressed a 
desire to be heard, but not being present, the Committee 
adjourned, subject to the call of the chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 






NOTICE. 

The tliird meeting of the Executive Committee will 
be held in public in the Governor's Room of the City 
Hall, Friday afternoon, January 19, 1906, at 2 30 o'clock, 
for the purpose of hearing suggestions that may be offered 
from any source concerning the celebration in 1909. 
Persons desiring to address the Committee are requested 
to send their names in advance to the Secretary. The 
Committee will also welcome suggestions in writing. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretarv. 



Joint Committee 



StppointcU tp 

^\)t <&o\ittnot of tl)t ^mt of j^r fco ^orfe anD 

^\)t spai?or of ttje Cit^ of j^tto ^oth 



presi^ent 

Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 



ficcspresfSents 

Hon. Robert H. Roosevelt Hon. Levi P. Morton 

Andrew Carnegie William Rockefeller 

Brig.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. William B. Van Reksselaer 

Morris K. Jesup Hon. Andrew D. White 

Ureasurer 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 

23 Wall Street, New York 

Secretary Hssistant Secretary 

Henry W. Sackett Edward Hagaman Hall 

Tribune Building, New York Tribune Building. New York 



Permanently Organized, December 5, igo5 



ITIiniites of January 19, 1906 



Executive Committee 



Gen Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman ..i3 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. Franks. Black Troy, New York 

James M. Beck 44 WaU Street, New York 

Hon. J. Rider Cady Hudson, New York 

Henry W. Cannon - lo Wall Street, New York 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East 91st Street, New York 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate ...60 Wall Street, New York 

William J. Curtis.. 49 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett Elmira, New York 

Theodore Fitch.. 120 Bioadway, New York 

Frederick de Peyster Foster 18 Wall Street, New York 

Thomas Powell Fowler - - - 56 Beaver Street, New York 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis Troy, New /ork 

Hon. William W. Goodiich 49 Wall Street, New York 

Brig -Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, U. S. A Governor's Island, New \ ork 

Edward Hagaman Hall Tribune Building, New Yo.k 

Hon Warren Higley 68 West 40th Street, New York 

Hon. David B. Hill Albany, New York 

August F. Jaccaci 7 West 43d Street, New York 

Col. William Jav 48 Wall Street, New York 

Morris K. Jesup ....44 Pine Street, New \ ork 

Gen. Horatio C. King 375 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 

Dr George F. Kunz Tiffany & Company. New York 

John La Farge 5i West loth Street, New York 

Dr Henry M Leipziger Park Avenue lS: 59th Street, New York 

Hon. Seth Low 30 East 64th Street, New York 

Frank D. Millet. 6 East 23d Street, New York 

William J. McKay Newburgh, New York 

Emerson McMillin 320 Riverside Avenue, New York 

Hon. Levi P. Morton .38 Nassau Street, New York 

Eben E Olcott .- ..Desbrosses Street Pier, New Yoik 

John E.' Parsons 52 William Street, New York 

Hon. Sereno E. Payne Auburn, New York 

Gen. Horace Poner Union League Club, New York 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peekskill, New York 

Louis C. Raegener r4i Broadway, New York 

Hon. Herman Ridder 2 Tryon Row, New York 

William Rockefeller 26 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt 57 Fifth Avenue, New York 

Col. Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York 

President J. G. Schurman Ithaca, New York 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward... ..Montrose, New York 

Charles Stewart Smith 25 West 47th Street, New York 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus 5 West 76th Street, New York 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 15 Washington Square, New York 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D Princeton, New Jersey 

William B. Van Rensselaer Albany, N°w York 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany, New York 

Hon. Andrew D. While Ithaca, New York 

Gen. James Grant Wilson 621 Fifth Avenue, New York 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

January 19, 1906 

The third meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee was held in public, 
in the Governors' Room of the City Hall of New York,, 
Friday, January 19, 1906, at 2.30 P. M., for the purpose of 
hearing suggestions as to the form of the proposed celebra- 
tion in 1909. 

Present : Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, pre- 
siding; and Messrs. VVm. J. Curtis, Theodore Fitch, Ed- 
ward Hagaman Hall, August F. Jaccaci, Gen. Horatio C. 
King, Henry M. Leipziger, Wm. J. McKay, Hon. Cornelius 
A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raegener, Henry W. Sackett and 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Hon. 
Chas. S. Francis and Messrs. F. D. Millet and Francis 
Lynde Stetson, and they were excused. 

The minutes of the previous meeting having been 
printed and sent to all the members, they were adopted 
without reading. 

The Chairman announced the readiness of the Execu- 
tive Committee to hear further suggestions concerning the 
form of the celebration in 1909. 

Dr. D. H. Lamb, of Chicago, speaking in behalf 
of Mr. Edward Wells, Jr., of No. 141 Broadway, New 
York, and representing the voluntary "Citizens' Com- 
mittee of 500," in advocacy of a permanent exposition, 
spoke about four minutes on the possibility of laying 
out the exposition grounds as a park, with perma- 
nent landscape features. He stated that his committee was 
preparing a brochure on the subject which it desired to 
present to the Executive Committee of the Hudson Ter- 
Centenary Joint Committee, and he asked for another pub- 
lic hearing, a week hence, at which the document might be 
laid before this Committee. They would then have their 
financial plan also worked out better than now. They 
would have enough copies of their document printed for 
all the members of the Joint Committee. 



24 January 19, 1906 

The Chairman asked the speaker if those whom he 
represented were committed to any site, and Dr. Lamb 
replied that they were not. 

Mr. Louis C. Raegener, of No. 141 Broadway, New 
York, a member of the Executive Committee, saw no 
reason for another public hearing if the document referred 
to were to be printed and sent to all the members of this 
Committee. 

The Hon. Clarence Lexow, of Nyack, N. Y., and No. 
43 Cedar Street, New York, spoke about fifteen minutes 
in advocacy of a permanent exposition on the banks of 
the Hudson. The residents of the Hudson valley, he 
said, had a superior claim to recognition. The event 
which it was proposed to celebrate was the discov- 
ery of the river which ran by their homes. They know 
its history, its great natural beauty and its significant his- 
torical associations. Its discovery was an event second 
only to the discovery of America. Something more than 
a bridge, or a fountain, or an educational institution 
in the City of New York, or the broadening of its high- 
ways, was needed adequately to celebrate such an event. 

The Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, he said, 
represented something of importance. It was a Joint Com- 
mittee selected by the Governor of the State and the 
Mayor of the imperial city of the western hemisphere, be- 
cause the event which it is proposed to commemorate is a 
great event. The Governor and the Mayor meant that 
this Committee should, to typify the event, do something 
more than a millionaire might do with a charitable 
bequest. 

He assured the Committee that it would be estimated 
by the public according to the conclusion at which it 
arrived. It would be dignified by reaching a great decis- 
ion, or it would go down in history as a body of small 
men who treated a big thing in a small way. 

The speaker referred to the plane of greatness which 
the City of New York had attained, and said that within a 
few years the people had thought so much of the reputa- 
tion of New York that they had associated the present five 
great boroughs under one municipal government. The 
city was the nerve centre of the art, literature, science and 



January 19, 1906 25 

business of the United States. And the most important 
incident in the city's history, an incident standing side by 
side with the discovery of America, was the discovery of 
the river which washes its imperial shore. 

He asked the Committee if it supposed that Chicago, 
St. Louis, or some other enterprising western city, would 
n.iss such an opportunity as this to dignify itself by a 
great celebration, and he advised the committee to look 
out that the occasion was not appropriated by others, and 
the discovery of the Hudson celebrated at the Golden 
Horn. 

As to the suggestion of a Memorial Bridge, he said that 
the city would build a hundred new bridges in the course 
of time to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island 
and the mainland of New York and New Jersey, and that 
a bridge would possess no particular significance as a 
memorial. And a monument would be as inadequate to 
commemorate such a great event as Hudson's voyage as 
a twenty-five cent water fountain on a street corner would 
be to commemorate the birth of Abraham Lincoln. This 
is a big event, he said; don't disgrace it by a small celebra- 
tion. A permanent exposition which will attract the atten- 
tion of the whole world is the measure of what the Com- 
mittee should do. 

He said that it should not be regarded as an objection 
to the proposed exposition that the projectors wanted to 
make money — that is, to make the exposition pay its own 
way. The idea of every American was to make money, not 
to lose it. That idea was behind art and literature as well 
as behind commerce. If, in making money — that is, in 
paying running expenses — this Committee could give the 
American people an object lesson in art, literature, science, 
etc., it would be making the best money that the human 
brain ever coined. 

As to the site, he would like to see Verplanck's Point, 
with all its natural beauties and historic associations, 
honored; but if any other site were better, then let it be 
chosen. But let it be on the river. In honoring the Hudson, 
do it on the Hudson. In honoring Henry Hudson, he 
urged the Committee not to forget that within 50 yards of 
Verplanck's Point, Henry Hudson's anchor first struck solid 
ground after entering the river. 



26 January 19, 1906 

To a permanent exposition such as is proposed, the 
people of all the world would come, and New York City 
and New York State would be known of all men. 

But New York State and New York City were not alone 
interested in this event. New Jersey was entitled to her 
share. Why should a building be erected in New York 
City, he enquired, to celebrate the discovery of the Hudson 
when twenty miles of New Jersey, comprising the grand 
Palisades, borders the western shore ? A permanent exposi- 
tion on the banks of the Hudson would permit New Jersey 
to participate. The proposed Hudson Memorial Bridge 
and other features already suggested should be only part 
of a great scheme which should be a record breaker, be- 
cause the discovery of the Hudson was a record breaker 
and America was a record breaker. 

At the conclusion of Senator Lexow's remarks Gen. 
Horatio C. King of the Committee asked him if he knew 
of any exposition built 40 miles away from the nearest city. 
Mr. Lexow replied that there had never been a great 
exposition, to which ten millions of people were tributary, 
with such facilities for access by ocean, river and railroad. 
The Secretary read a letter from Perry Dickie, M. D., 
of No. 17 Schernierhorn street, Brooklyn, advocating a 
World's fair, on the ground that during the last half cen- 
tury New York had had no really great celebration; that 
local pride should stimulate an effort to atone for the dor- 
mancy of the past fifty years; that the plan which gives 
the greatest benefit to the maximum number of the public 
(who pay for the celebration) should be adopted, and that 
a Worlds fair met that condition. The greatest reason for 
such a form of celebration was its high educational value. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown, of No. 509 Fifth avenue, New 
York City, spoke about five minutes in answer to the ob- 
jection that there was a commercial element in the pro- 
posed permanent exposition. He had listened attentively 
to the other plans and suggestions offered, and was in 
favor of them, but he felt that if, in the face of the pres- 
ent opportunity, New York contented itself with an 
arch, a statue, a bridge, a parade, the widening of a street, 
or with all of them, it would be more open to criticism than 
it could be because of the commercial features of a fair. 



January 19. 1906 27 

He argued that New York was a commercial city; that it 
owed its wealth and power to the industries and commerce 
of the nation- that this was the country's principal point 
of contact with other peoples, and that it was a partner in 
enterprises that promote national growth and the welfare 
of the world. He held, therefore, that it was under a moral 
obligation to present to civilization an exposition of the 
progress of its partners in the arts of peace. 

Mr. L. A. Robinson (?) spoke a couple of minutes in 
favor of an exposition. He held that an exposition always 
left permanent benefits where it was held. It always brought 
a great deal of business and established a great deal of 
friendship. New York should have an exposition to show 
that she could do as much as Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis 
and Philadelphia. 

The Chairman referred to the telegram received from 
the Hon. John H. Coyne, Mayor of Yonkers, stating his 
desire to send a delegation to represent that city, and asked 
if anyone were present in that capacity. There being no 
response, Mr. E. V. Skinner, of Yonkers, a member of the 
Joint Committee, requested another hearing in order that 
his city might be heard. 

Mr, Charles L. Rickerson, of No. 212 West street, New 
York City, spoke a few minutes in the line of his remarks 
at the last hearing. 

Mr. William J. McKay, of Newburgh, a member of the 
Executive Committee, asked the representatives of the 
"Citizens Committee of 500" if the}^ were prepared to sub- 
mit a statement in regard to the options secured on real 
estate at Verplanck's Point, as promised at the last 
hearing. 

Dr. D. H. Lamb said that the subject had been turned 
over to their Executive Committee, and the information 
would be embodied in the brochure, which was in course 
of preparation. 

The Secretary said that what this Committee wanted 
was a copy of the language of the options themselves, and 
a description of what land they covered, the price, and 
other details. 

Mr. Bagley stated that the Peekskill Citizens' Commit- 
tee had been at work getting options, and had now secured 



28 January 19, 1906 

them on a thousand or twelve hundred acres. They were 
prepared to turn these options over to the exposition people, 
whoever they may be — whether they were this Committee 
or some other body. He then went on to speak of the value 
of Verplanck's Point as a site for the exposition. 

The Secretary said that he thought that Mr. Bagley's 
answer did not meet the situation. The most important 
announcement made at the last meeting w^as the statement 
that parties had been securing options on the Verplanck's 
Point property, and were prepared to turn them over to 
the authorities in charge of the celebration at their gross 
cost. In answer to the question whether this Committee 
would be given full information concerning them, the Com- 
mittee was assured that it would be fully informed. There 
should be a full statement as to what would be turned 
over; a map showing the properties covered by the several 
options; the form of the options ; the length of time that 
they respectively ran, and a statement showing the aggre- 
gate covered by all the options. It was very important to 
this Committee in considering the various forms of celebra- 
tion to have the fullest information on this subject. 

Mr. Bagley reiterated their willingness to show the 
options. 

Dr. Brown submitted a rough pencil sketch of Ver- 
planck's Point and vicinity, showing the area covered by 
the options and marked "120c acres at $800 an acre or 
about $1,000,000." It showed the post road just east of the 
fair ground and the railroad just east of the post road. 
He said that it was he who began the taking of options on 
the advice of Gen. Miles. Gen. Miles said to him "this is 
the place par excellence," and advised Dr. Brown to " go 
to work quietly and get options." The speaker, acting on 
this advice, had secured options for six months, and upon 
tlieir expiration renewed them, until he was swamped and 
then he had to look to others to help. The options now 
run for another two or three months. 

The chairman asked the speaker if they had secured 
the entire shore front of Verplanck's Point, and Dr. Brown 
said yes, all except two properties. 

The chairman asked how many pieces lying in back 
had not been secured, and Dr. Brown said between 100 
and 200 acres. 



January 19, 1906 29 

A letter was read from the Municipal Art Societ}- of 
New York, offering its co-operation in securing the neces- 
sary design for the committee's official paper, poster, seal, 
etc. 

A letter from Mr. H. Roosevelt Ostrom of No. 205 
West 103d street, New York, was read conveying the fol- 
lowing suggestions in addition to those presented at the 
last meeting : that a collection and exhibition of literature, 
paintings and historical articles relating to Hudson and the 
Dutch be made; that a Hudson medal be presented to 
every public school pupil who writes a composition which 
passes a board of examiners; and that prizes be offered to 
writers of essays on the Hudson in the different colleges of 
the country. 

A letter was read from Mr. Henry Clay Weeks, of Bav- 
side, L. I., (New York City), recommending that an effort 
be made in advance of the celebration for the complete 
salvation of the Hudson valley for scenic advertising; that 
a campaign be made against the destruction of the scenery 
of the river by quarrying operations; and that a monument 
be erected at Stony Point in honor of Mad Anthony Wayne, 
on the scene of his inspiring success, the monument to take 
the form of a monumental lighthouse. 

A letter was read from the Chicago Inter-Ocean stating 
that the Columbian Exposition benefited that city. 

The public hearing was then closed and the Com- 
mittee went into executive session. 

IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 

Mr. McKay moved that another public hearing be 
held in the Governors' Room of the City Hall, on Friday, 
January 26, 1906, at 2.30 p. m., and that that should be the 
last public hearing for the purpose of receiving suggestions 
as to the form of celebration in 1909. The motion was 
seconded. 

Mr. Hollaman, a member of the Joint Committee, sug- 
gested to the Executive Committee that it place in the 
newspapers paid advertisements of the next hearing. 

The Chairman deprecated any such means of arousing 
public interest, saying, that if there were a general public 
interest, it would find expression. The suggestion that 



30 January 19, 1906 

the Executive Committee pay for advertisements to stimu- 
late public interest implied either that the public had no 
interest or that the press had no interest in the celebration. 

Mr. Curtis thought it would be sufficient if the Secre- 
tary sent a request to the editors of every city paper to give 
notice of the hearing; and with that understanding, Mr. 
McKay's motion was adopted. 

The Secretary moved that the Executive Committee 
hold a private meeting for executive business in the Gov- 
ernors' Room of the City Hall, on Wednesday, January 
24 1906, at 4 P. M., for the purpose of taking steps for the 
incorporation of the Joint Committee, and for other neces- 
sary legislation; and that the Finance Committee and 
Committee on Legislation be invited to be present. 

Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



NOTICE. 



In accordance with the resolution last recorded above, 
of which notice has already been sent to the members of 
the Executive Committee, there will be a private session 
of the Executive Committee in the Governors' Room of 
the City Hall, New York, Wednesday, January 24, 1906, 

at 4 o'clock, p. M, 

In addition to that meeting, notice is hereby given that 
the third and last public hearing for the purpose of 
receiving suggestions concerning the form of the celebra- 
tion in 1909, will be held by the Executive Committee in 
the Governors' Room of the City Hall, New York, Friday, 
January 26, 1906, at 2.30 p. m. Persons desiring to address 
the Committee are requested to send their names in ad- 
vance to the Secretary. The Committee will also welcome 

suegestions in writing. 

^^ HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretarv. 



Joint Committee 



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Ip^■e8i^cnt 

Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 

l'icc=picsibcnta 
Hon. Robert H. Roosevelt Hon. hnvi P. Mokton 

Andrew Carnegie William Rockefeller 

Brig.-Gkn. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. William B. Van Rensselaer 

Morris K. Jesup Hon. Andrkvv I). White 

XErcasuicc 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 

23 Wall Street, New York 

Secretary Hssistant Secretaig 

Henuy W. Sackett Edward Hagaman Hall 

Tribune Building, New York Tribune lUiilding, New York 



Permanently Organized, December 5, 1905 



minutest of Jun. 24, Jan, 2G and Feb. 7, 19<H; 



Executive Committee 



Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairnian i8 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. Frank S. Black Troy, New York 

James M. Beck 44 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J . Rider Cady Hudson, New York 

Henry \V. Cannon 10 Wall Street, New York 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East gist Street, New York 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 60 Wall Street, New York 

William J. Curtis 49 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett .. Elmira, New York 

Theodore Fitch . 120 Bioadway, New York 

Fredeiick de Peyster Foster _ _ iS Wall Street, New York 

Thomas Powell Fowler 56 Beaver Street, New York 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis - _ _ Troy, New York 

Hon. William W. Goodiich _ 49 Wall Street, New York 

Brig.-Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, U. S. A Governor's Island, New York 

Edward Hagaman Hall.. Tribune Building, New Yoik 

Hon. Warren Higley 68 West 40th Street, New York 

Hon. David B. Hill Albany, New York 

August F. Jaccaci 7 West 43d Street, New York 

Col. William Jay 48 Wall Street, New York 

Morris K. Jesup ..44 Pine Street, New York 

Gen. Horatio C. King .. -.375 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 

Dr. George F. Kunz Tiffany <.S: Company, New York 

John La Farge 51 West loth Street, New York 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger Park Avenue & 59th Street, New York 

Hon. Seth Low 30 East 64ih Street, New York 

Frank D. Millet. 6 East 23d Street, New York 

William J. McKay New burgh, New Yoik 

Emerson McMillin 320 Riverside Avenue, New York 

Hon. Levi P. Morton.. 38 Nassau Stree% New York 

Eben E. Olcott Desbrosses Sireet Pier, New Yoik 

John E. Parsons 52 William Street, New York 

Hon. Serene E. Payne. Auburn, New York 

Gen. Horace Porter Union League Club, New York 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peekskill, New Yoik 

Louis C. Raegener 141 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Herman Ridder _ .2 Try on Row, New York 

William Rockefeller ..26 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt 57 Fifth Avenue, New York 

Col. Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York 

President J. G. Schurman Ithaca, New York 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, New York 

Charles Stewart Smith 25 West 47th Street, New York 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus.. 5 West 76th Street, New York 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 15 Washington Square, New York 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D ...Princeton, New Jersey 

William B. Van Rensselaer Albany, New York 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany. New York 

Hon. Andrew D. White Ithaca, New York 

Gen. James Grant Wilson ')2I Fifth Avenue, New York 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

January 24, 1906 

The fourth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, for executive 
business, was held in the Governors' Room of the City 
Hall, New York, Wednesday, January 24, at 4 P. M. 

Present: Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman; and 
Messrs. James M. Beck, Theodore Fitch, Frederick de 
Peyster Foster, Hon. William W. Goodrich, Edward Haga- 
man Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, August F. Jaccaci, Col. 
Wm, Jay, Hon. Seth Low, Frank D. Millet, Emeison Mc- 
Millin, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raegener, 
Hon. Herman Ridder, Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick 
W. Seward, Francis Lynde Stetson, Hon. Oscar S. Straus 
and Gen. James Grant Wilson. Also, Messrs. John G. Agar, 
Bayard L. Peck and Nelson Spencer, of the Committee on 
Legislation. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from the 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, Messrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Austen G. 
Fox, Morris K. Jesup, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Ogden Mills, 
Eben E.Olcott, Hon. Sereno E. Payne, Pres. J. G. Schurman, 
Isaac N. Seligman, A. G. Vanderbilt, Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, John E. Parsons and Hon. An- 
drew D. White, and they were excused. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were adopted without reading. 

The report of the Treasurer, J. P. Mor-gan & Co., was 
read, showing the receipt of $640 from contributions, and 
no expenditures. 

The suggestion that an Auditing Committee be ap- 
pointed to approve bills for payment was referred to the 
Joint Committee. 



36 January 24, 1906 

The Secretary presented the following bills for pay- 
ment, subject to the approval of the Auditing Committee: 

Polhemus Printing Co.: letter-files $1 00 

" Two scrap-books i 70 

" Blank writing paper 2 00 

" 350 subscription blanks 3 00 

" 1,000 clasp envelopes 10 75 

" 350 circulars of Dec. 23rd, and 

electro 5 00 

" 500 copies minutes of Dec. i6th, 

and electro 17 35 

" 100 copies of 24-page booklet, 

list of names 24 00 

" 500 copies revised edition of 

same 14 co 

'' 500 copies minuses of Dec. 29th. 20 50 

Henry Romeike, Inc., 43 press clippings 

in December i 29 

Irving Press: 500 letter- heads, 1,000 envel- 
opes, and electro of letter- 
head 9 10 

$109 69 

The Secretary stated that he had made additional dis- 
bursements to the amount of nearly one hundred dollars, 
and that the bill for stenographer's services at public hear- 
ings had not yet been presented. 

Mr. Straus asked for information as to the source of 
means for meeting these obligations. Fie would be very 
glad to contribute, but had received no request. 

The Secretary explained that, in accordance witli the 
resolution of the Joint Committee, adopted Dec. 5th, a cir- 
cular and subscription blank had been sent to all the mem- 
bers, asking them, if entirely convenient, to send .$10 each 
to the Treasurer (J. P. Morgan & Co., 23 Wall Street), as a 
contribution toward the preliminary expenses. As these 
documents were enclosed with the printed minutes of the 
first meeting of the Executive Committee, it appeared that 
in several instances they had either gone astray or had 
been overlooked. The Secretary said he would send out 
another circular-letter to those who had not received or 
responded to the first. 

There was some further discussion of ways and means 



January 24, iqo6 ^y 

for preliminary expenses, two or three members expressing 
their willingness to guarantee their payment if necessary. 

It was voted that the bills presented by the Secretary 
be referred to the Joint Committee, with the recommenda- 
tion that they be paid. 

The Secretary, as Chairman of the Committee com- 
posed of Messrs. Sackett, Higley and Fitch, appointed to 
arrange for the compensation of the Assistant Secretary, 
reported, recommending that the Assistant Secretary be 
paid in monthly installments at the rate of $2,500 a year, 
beginning from the time of his election, Dec. 5, 1905, and 
so to continue until the Executive Committee deemed it 
advisable to increase the amount. He explained that the 
sub-Committee had conferred with the Assistant Secretary, 
who had consented to this amount until the increased de- 
mands upon him or his office made it equitable that the 
sum should be increased. At present this compensation 
included the use of the Assistant Secretary's office and the 
assistance of his office stenographer for correspondence. 

Upon motion of Mr. Stetson, modified at the sugges- 
tion of Mr. Sackett, it was voted to recommend to the 
Joint Committee that the compensation of the Assistant 
Secretary be fixed at $2,500 per annum until further action, 
as contemplated in the report of the Committee. 

The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Thomas 
A. Fulton, of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, expressing the 
opinion that the fault with all recent expositions in this 
country had been the effort of each to surpass its predeces- 
sor in size. He thought the most useful exhibitions were 
the series held at South Kensington, beginning with the 
*' Fisheries," each succeeding one taking a different subject. 
The naval exhibition at Chelsea years later was equally 
successful. He therefore suggested the merging of the 
Fulton Centennial Committee and the Hudson Ter-Cen- 
tenary Joint Committee, and that a joint exposition be 
held in Bronx, Queens or Richmond Borough, beginning 
with an exhibition covering " Ships and Navigation." 

The Chairman stated, apropos of the suggestion for the 
merging of the two Committees, that having received an 
informal intimation that such a union would be agreeable 
to the Fulton Committee, he and the Secretary had written 
to Mayor McClellan the following letter : 



38 January 24, 1906 

January 24, 1906. 
The Hon. George B. McClellan, 

Mayor of the City of New York, 

City Hall, New York. 
Dear Sir : 

We have learned from the Secretary of the Committee 
appointed by you to arrange for the celebration in 1907 of 
the Centennial Anniversary of the first steam navigation 
of the Hudson River by Robert Fulton that such Commit- 
tee is to make its report to you on Thursday morning of 
this week, respecting the form of such celebration. 

In discussing the matter with other members of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, appointed by you 
and the Governor of the State of New York, it has occurred 
to us to suggest to you the propriety of merging these two 
committees for the purpose of celebrating both events in 
1909 

Our reason for this are briefly these : 

These two events in the history of the Hudson River 
are so intimately related that their commemoration can with 
great propriety be combined in one celebration. Not only 
are the two events mutually related by their connection with 
the Hudson River, but an interesting coincidence of dates 
adds to the propriety of celebrating in 1909 the centennial 
of the beginning of steam navigation, for it was in 1809 
that the Legislature of the State granted to Fulton the 
exclusive privilege of navigating the river — out of which 
action grew the famous case of Gibbons and Ogden, 
establishing the right of free navigation. 

We believe that the union of these two observances will 
strengthen each. It will not only allow the municipality 
and the various civic interests concerned to focus their en- 
ergies on one great observance, but it will more effectually 
concentrate upon itself the public attention of the world. 

If the suggestion which we have made meets with your 
approval, and it should prove acceptable to the members of 
the Committee appointed by you for the Fulton Celebra- 
tion, we believe that it would be a conclusion which would 
not only be cordially received by all the members of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Committee, but would also serve in 
every way the best public interests. 
Yours trulv, 

STEWART L. WOODFORD, 

President. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 

Mr. Straus said that the suggestion for the appoint- 
ment of the Fulton Committee originated in the New York 
Board of Trade and Transportation ; that he had been ap- 



January 24, 1906 39 

pointed on both the Fulton and Hudson Committees; that 
he thought that having two such movements in the air 
would keep both in the air : and that he had declined the 
appointment on the Fulton Committee and recommended 
the consolidation of both. 

Mr. Low thought the merging of the two committees a 
very wise step, and moved that the action of the President 
and Secretary in writing the foregoing letter he approved. 
Seconded by Mr. Straus and carried. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the Committee on Legislation be 
requested to draft a Charter of Incorporation of the Hud- 
son Ter-Centenary Joint Committee and report it to the 
ne.xt executive session of the Executive Committee. 

The Chairman asked members of the Committee to 
express their views as to the scope of the proposed legisla- 
tion. 

The Secretary suggested that in making up the list of 
incorporators the Committee take into consideration a list 
of 22 names approved by Gov. Higgins in addition to those 
already appointed by him on the Joint Committee. The 
names included that of an ex Governor now residing in New 
Jersey, ex-President Cleveland. 

Mr. Stetson thought the bill of incorporation should 
cover these point: 

The first section could present all of the names, with 
the names of the Governors and ex-Governors. Mr. Cleve- 
land, he observed, was not the only living ex-Governor. 
There was an ex-Governor of New York in the White House 
who might be included. 

The second section should be devoted to the conferring 
of the necessary powers. 

The third section should provide for an ample appro- 
priation by the State and City to enable the Committee to 
make provision for the Celebration on a wide and ample 
scale. 

He recommended that the draft of the bill be sent in 
proof form to all members of the Joint Committee before 
the meeting at which they are called upon to adopt it. 

He said that the approaching anniversary presented a 
great opportunity. Before the consolidation of Greater 
New York, the Old City had been held up as a city without 
civic pride. Now was a good time to show that we had it. 



40 January 24, 1906 

He was one of the Commission appointed to represent New 
York at the Chicago Exposition on Manhattan Day and he 
appreciated the value of feeling and expressing pride in 
one's city. He referred to the Field Columbian Exposition 
as a permanent outgrowth of that Fair, the product of the 
interest of one of Chicago's most distinguished citizens, 
who had just died and left it $8,000,000. The Hudson ter- 
centenary presented an opportunity for a great advance in 
the City's history which should be improved. He agreed 
that previous expositions had erred on the side of size. He 
wanted the best thing in this celebration, not the biggest. 

So far as immediate expenses were concerned he was 
willing to guarantee their ultimate payment. 

Mr. Low expressed himself as in hearty sympathy with 
what Mr. Stetson had said. He would be glad to join in 
guaranteeing the preliminary expenses. If any member 
of the Committee could not give pro rata, others could 
give more. 

Turning to the commemoration itself, Mr. Low said that 
he regarded this as a splendid opportunity for an interest- 
ing celebration. It was a favorite thought with him that 
New York City had the function of interpreting America 
to Europe and Europe to America. This was because she 
had her hands on both. Some Americans living away from 
the seaboard spoke of us as being European. That was 
partly because of our large foreign population and partly 
because we were so close to Europe. 

New York, he said, was an epitome of the United States, 
because of her close touch with the rest of the country 
largely through-the Hudson River and Erie Canal. Speak- 
ing of the influence of these channels on the development 
of the City, he referred to the time prior to the opening of 
the Canal when New York was a second or third rate city 
and alluded to the three Brown brothers, who came to the 
United States, one of them going to Baltimore as the most 
important City, another to Philadelphia, and the third to 
New York as the least important. When the Erie Canal 
was opened, years before the railroads, and gave the City 
easy access by river, canal and lake to the west, it gave 
New York a pre-eminence which she had never lost. When 
the railroads came, the same geographical situation contin- 
ued her pre-eminence, because, among other advantages, 



January 24, 1906 41 

New Yorkers did not have to climb the Alleghany moun- 
tains to communicate with the west. As a result of the 
streams of life flowing- to and through the City from the 
other parts of the United States, New York was an epitome 
of the growth of the nation. 

If the enterprise which we had in hand were carried for- 
ward in a large way, he was sure that everybody would 
take pride in it. In the bill of incorporation we should 
ask for ample powers and an appropriation as large as 
might be thought wise. The latter should be sufficient to 
enable the Committee to lay out its plans on a large scale; 
and perhaps the City and State would give more liberally 
later. He favored laying out the plans of the celebration 
on lines broad enough to deal adequately with the oppor- 
tunity. 

Col. Jay expressed his strong pride in and affection for 
the City of New York. His mind had not yet hit upon 
any definite scheme for the celebration, but he was inclined 
toward something permanent in the way of a monument, 
gate, statue, building or public square. He thought that 
we were far behind European cities in laying out our town. 
The plan of New York City's streets was as poor as could 
be imagined. The streets had evidently been ruled out on 
paper at right angles, without any regard to the topog- 
raphy of the Island. If we could get up something, not so 
big as the Place de la Concorde in Paris or Trafalgar 
Square in London, but an attempt at some architectural 
fulfillment, he thought it might be worth while. 

As to money for temporary expenses, he' recalled his 
experience on the Commission appointed by Gov. Cornell 
at the time of the Yorktown centennial in 1881. When the 
French visitors became the guests of the New York Com- 
mission, the members of the latter found themselves facing 
some large expenses with no appropriation. They assessed 
themselves, however, to meet the situation, with the expec- 
tation that they would be reimbursed, and their confidence 
in that respect was not disappointed. He felt sure that 
whatever the members of this Committee assessed upon 
themselves would be refunded. 

Mr. Seward thought that Mr. Lew had hit upon the 
most important point of all when he spoke of seeing that 
the powers sought to be granted by the Legislature should 



42 January 24, 1906 

be ample. The Committee had no power now. It was 
simply an advisory board. It could receive suggestions 
and make them, but could not carry them out or extend its 
power. He would insist that the powers granted be large, 
and the discretion left in the Corporation be ample, because 
we did not now know what our plans would be, and we 
should not be so tied down as to prevent our carrying out a 
large plan. 

Mr. Low said that while it was natural for us to empha- 
size the interest of the City we should not forget that this 
event concerns the State as well, and shape our plans 
accordingly. 

Judge Goodrich suggested that the Corporation be given 
the power of condemning property. If this body were 
organized into a corporation, it would certainly be a cor- 
poration for public purposes, and possibly it would follow 
that it would have the right to apply to the proper authori- 
ties to take property by eminent domain. He did not 
know just exactly how the fullest measure of public inter- 
est was to be aroused in this celebration. If we had the 
courage to ask for an appropriation that would startle the 
State of New York, one which would rise into the millions, 
it might wake up the people and the press and stimulate 
an interest commensurate with the importance of the event. 
Mr. Seward thought Judge Goodrich's suggestion capi- 
tal. We must ask for a good deal more than we expect to 
get. The Charter should also be drawn with a view to 
getting all the power that will ever be needed. 

Mr. Low regarded it as of doubtful policy to go before 
the Legislature without a plan and ask for much money. 
We could very properly ask for a large appropriation to 
carry out a plan when we knew what it was, but he coun- 
seled the Committee not to ask for a large sum for a 
temporary corporation. 

Mr. Stetson agreed with Mr. Low and reiterated his own 
suggestion that until a plan was formulated, the Committee 
limit its Charter to three sections, naming the incorporators 
and corporation, a statement of the corporation's powers 
and an appropriation sufficient to enable it to mature its 
plans. As to exercising the power of eminent domain, he 
was inclined to think the Committee should limit itself to 
an appeal to the City authorities. He hoped we could 



January 24, 1906 43 

arouse the City to make large provision for the celebration. 
He recalled the fact that when efforts were being made to 
have the Columbian Exposition held in New York the 
Legislature had been induced to pass laws for the extension 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American 
Museum of Natural History. He thought these laws had 
never been repealed and that the municipal authorities 
could be stirred up to avail themselves of them. It was, 
rather, the other side — the state side — for which we should 
make provision in the charter ; for while the corporation 
of the City could make provision for the City, there was 
no organization to operate all up and down the Hudson. 

The Secretary suggested that if an exposition were 
held it might be found necessary to condemn property 
outside of the city, and asked if it might not be a useful 
power of the corporation to exercise the right of eminent 
domain beyond the city limits. 

After some further discussion Mr. Fitch's motion, that 
the Committee on Legislation be requested to draft a 
Charter and submit it to the Executive Committee, was 
carried. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretarv. 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

January 26, 1906. 

The fifth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee was held in public 
in the Governors' Room in the City Hall of New York, 
Friday, January 26, 1906, at 2.30 p. m. This was the third 
and last public hearing for the purpose of receiving sugges- 
tions as to the form of the proposed celebration in 1909. 

Present : Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, pre- 
siding ; and Messrs. William J. Curtis, Theodore Fitch, 
Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, William 
J. McKay, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Henry W. Sackett 
and the Hon. Frederick W. Seward. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from the Hon. 
J. Sloat Fassett, Messrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Austen G. Fox, 
Morris K. Jesup, Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Henry M. 
Leipziger, Ogden Mills, Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Sereno E. Pa3me, President J. G. Schurman, Isaac 
N. Seligman, A G. Vanderbilt, Rev. Henry Van Dyke, 
D.D., Dr. Samuel B. Ward and Hon. Andrew D. White, 
and they were excused. 

The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was 
dispensed with. 

The Chairman announced that the Committee was 
ready to listen to further suggestions concerning the plan 
of the proposed celebration in 1909. 

The Hon. John H. Coyne, Mayor of Yonkers, heading a 
committee representing that city, introduced Mr. Charles 
Philip Easton, President of the Board of Education of 
Yonkers, as their spokesman. 

Mr. Easton had nothing definite to suggest as to the 
form of the celebration, but said that if the Ter-Centenary 
Committee desired five or six hundred acres of space, or 
even more, that area was available in the City of Yonkers. 

Mr. Abraham Hasbrouck, of Kingston, N. Y., pre- 
sented a letter from the Hon. A. W. Thompson, Mayor of 
Kingston, asking him to represent that city at the hearing. 
He said he came unprepared to make any suggestion, but 
asked that Kingston be given some representation on the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, as the people of 
that city were interested and would like to co-operate. 



January 26, 1906 45 

The Chairman explained that the Committee had been 
appointed by the Governor of the State and tlie Mayor of 
New York, and if such an important city as Kingston had 
been overlooked the Committee regretted it. 

Mrs. A. L. Freed, of No. 30 East 42d Street, whose 
husband appeared at the hearing December 29, 1905, said 
that he expected to attend the present hearing to speak on 
the subject of an exposition, but had been prevented. She 
therefore came in his place. She said that Chicago, Paris 
and St. Louis had been benefited by their expositions and 
that Brussels and Antwerp had been built up alone by ex- 
positions. She thought that New York was a dull place in 
summer and that an exposition in or near the city would 
benefit the tradespeople of the town. 

Mr. Pierre H. Marshall, terminal agent of the Baltimore 
& Ohio Railroad Co., Pier 22, North River, New York, 
spoke in favor of Staten Island as a site for the proposed 
exposition. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, whose road 
came into Staten Island, was one of the only two roads 
whose rails came into the City of New York. He said that 
Staten Island was accessible by rail and water and had 
connection with all the trunk lines. He assumed that 
there was no question as to the advisability of a world's 
fair. He disclaimed any authority to speak for Staten 
Island, but came as a friend of Mr. Freed to speak for the 
transportation interests. 

Mr. Easton, speaking again of the availability of 
Yonkers for an exposition, predicted that that city would 
eventually come within the boundaries of New York. 
Yonkers had twenty-one square miles of area ; was situated 
on the Hudson ; was within fifteen miles of the Grand Cen- 
tral Station of New York ; was accessible by the Hudson 
division of the New York Central, the Putnam division, the 
New York & Harlem, and by trolley from New York ; and 
by March ist it would be accessible by the Interborough 
Rapid Transit. It was also easily accessible from the east, 
and New Jersey people could reach it by river on the west. 
These were features which commended Yonkers to the con- 
sideration of the Committee. 

The Hon. Theodore H. Silkman, of 459 Palisade Ave- 
nue, Yonkers, Surrogate of Westchester County, said that 
he thought a permanent exposition was the most perfect 



46 January 26, 1906 

way in which to honor the memory of Henry Hudson. 
World's fairs in the past liad been transient affairs, leaving 
possibly one building or monument to indicate where they 
had been held ; but if we could make a new departure and 
establish an exposition to last into the future as far as the 
discovery of the Hudson was past, we would do something 
that would honor ourselves, our country and the locality 
which we represent. He concluded his remarks by moving 
that it was the sense of the meeting that "the form of this 
tribute be in the nature of a permanent exposition located 
somewhere upon the Hudson River." 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown seconded the motion. 

Mr. Henry E. Gregory, of No. 59 Wall Street, New 
York, understood that this was not a meeting for the adop- 
tion of resolutions, but simply a hearing given by the 
Executive Committee to individuals who desired to express 
their views. It was not a meeting for the transaction of 
business. He desired to record his protest against the as- 
sumption that public opinion was generally in favor of an 
exposition. He believed that New York did not want any 
permanent exposition to honor Henry Hudson. It looked 
to him as if those who wanted an exposition most were in- 
terested in railroads or money-making schemes. He hoped 
the Committee would decide against such a form of cele- 
bration. He was not sure just what form the commemora- 
tion ought to take; but he was convinced that that was the 
form which it ought not to take. Chicago might have 
needed an exposition in 1892 or 1893, and St. Louis may 
have been benefited by the exposition of 1904, but New 
York was not in the same class and did not require any 
world's fair. 

Mr. Easton disclaimed, for the Yonkers Committee, 
any interest in the real estate business. Mr. Skinner, a 
member of the committee, was an officer of the Canadian 
Pacific Railroad, but that road did not touch Yonkers or 
New York. 

Mr. George A, Bagley, of Peekskill, reinforced the ar- 
guments which he had presented at the previous two hear- 
ings in favor of a permanent exposition at Verplanck's 
Point. 

The Hon. Alonzo Wheeler, of Haverstraw, N. Y., ap- 
peared in behalf of the Hon. Wilson P. Foss, President of 
the Village of Haverstraw, to say that if the latter were 
present he would speak strongly in favor of an exposition- 



January 26, 1906 47 

The Hon, Isaac H. Smith, President of the Village of 
Peekskill, spoke in favor of a permanent exposition. He 
thought that in the near future there would be a perma- 
nent exposition in the nation somewhere, and he thought 
that the anniversary now approaching offered a good occa- 
sion for establishing it here in New York State. He heartily 
endorsed Judge Silkman's sentiments upon that point. 

Mr. Bernard S. Deutsch, of No. 61 Park Row, New 
York, representing the City History Club of New York, 
wanted to go on record as opposed to any permanent ex- 
position very close to New York City. He said that the 
city had not yet solved its own transportation problems; 
that the manner in which the people of New York were 
handled by the transit lines was intolerable, and that we 
were not in a position to invite great crowds from all over 
the world to visit the city when we could not take care of 
our own people properly. He was in favor of an exposi- 
tion, but it should be located so far away from the City of 
New York that the city would, in a measure, be free from 
additional worry and care in regard to its transportation 
facilities. 

Mr. J. C. Pumpelly, of No. 2881 Broadway, New York, 
reiterated the views expressed by him at the hearing, Decem- 
ber 29, 1905, and hoped that the whole celebration would 
"take the strongest form possible along the line of the highest 
ideals of scenic improvement in art in a comm.emorative 
way." He thought we had an overabundance of com- 
mercialism and did not think any one would be in favor of 
a commercial enterprise where a great many goods would 
be displayed and then sold at the very best profit. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown, of No. 509 Fifth Avenue, New 
York, who had spoken at the tv/o previous hearings in 
favor of a permanent exposition at Verplanck's Point, spoke 
in the interest of the " eight3^-five million people of 
this country and the fourteen hundred million people on 
this planet," and declared that the gentleman who said 
that he did not want a permanent exposition spoke only 
for himself. The men who drew their incomes and could 
go to their clubs, and could go to Europe, and could sail 
about on their yachts, might do without a permanent 
exposition, he said; but the millions of people who had 
only h^lf a dollar needed the exposition. 



48 . January 26, 1906 

Mr. Richard G. Holaman, of the Eden Musee, New 
York, who had advocated a universal exposition at the 
hearing December 29, 1905, thought that the transporta- 
tion facilities would be adequate to handle an exposition 
crowd three years hence. 

The Secretary reported that the President had received 
a letter signed by Mr. L. A. R. Robinson, and dated No. 
214 West 44th Street, stating that on January 21st, by the 
kindness of Dr. Brown, he had gone over parts of the 
ground at Verplanck's Point, where he understood the 
permanent exposition was to be held, and he regarded the 
place as the most suitable for the purpose. The argu- 
ments advanced in favor of the exposition were in line 
with those already given before the Executive Com- 
mittee. 

The Chairman, referring to Judge Silkman's motion, 
said that as objection had been raised by a member of 
the Committee, he thought it would not be in order 
for him as Chairman of the Executive Committee to put 
the question to the assembly. If, however, the Judge 
wanted a vote of the friends present, the Chairman would 
yield long enough for him to put the motion. 

Judge Silkman withdrew his motion, stating that he 
offered it more for the purpose of evoking discussion than 
to find out how the gentlemen felt on the subject. 

The Secretary reported that the President had received 
a letter from Mr. Charles Elting Rickerson, of No. 276 
Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, a real estate dealer, offering an 
exposition site of 500 acres on Jamaica Bay, with two and 
a half miles of water front, for the sum of $500,000. 

The Secretary also reported the receipt of a letter 
from Mr. J. Du Pratt White, Secretary of the Commission- 
ers of the Palisades Inter-State Park, stating that the 
Commission would probably communicate their sugges- 
tions in a short time. 

No one else desiring to be heard, the Chairman thanked 
those who had appeared before the Committee and 
declared the public hearings closed. 

The Committee then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



Proposed Charter, Drafted by 

The Committee on Legislation, 

February 7, 1906. 

A meeting of the Committee on Legislation was held 
at the office of the Chairman, the Hon. William W. Good- 
rich, No 49 Wall street, at 4 p. m., Wednesday, Feb. 7, 
1906. 

Present: Judge Goodrich, presiding; and Messrs. 
John G. Agar, Bayard L. Peck and Nelson S. Spencer. 
An unavoidable engagement detained Mr. Cravath. 

The President and Secretaries of the Joint Committee 
were present by request. 

The preliminary draft of a Charter, which had been 
considered at a previous meeting, was amended to the form 
following. 

It was voted that the proposed Charter be reported to 
the Executive Committee at a meeting to be held in the 
Governors' Room of the City Hall on Wednesday, February 
14, at 2 p. m. in order that the Executive Committee, if it 
saw fit, might report it to the Joint Committee at a meet- 
ing to be held at the same place and on the same day at 
4 p. m. 

It was also voted that the draft be printed as soon as 
possible and sent to all the members, with the intimation 
that the Committee would be glad to receive from them 
any suggestions which they might desire to offer. Com- 
munications on the subject may be sent to the Secretary. 

PROPOSED CHARTER. 

AN ACT to Incorporate the HUDSON TER-CEN- 
TENARY COMMISSION. 

The People of the State of New York, represented 
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section i. Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleve- 
land, Levi P. Morton, David B. Plill, Frank S. Black, 
Benjamim B. Odell, Jr., Stewart L. Woodford, Robert 
B. Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Frederick D. Grant, 
Morris K. Jesup, William Rockefeller, William B. 
Van Rensselaer, Andrew D. White, J. Pierpont Mor- 



50 February 7, 1906 

gan, Henry VV. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, Her- 
bert Adams, R. B. Aldcroft, Jr., John G. Agar, B. 
Altman, Louis Annin Ames, John E. Andrus, James 
K. Apgar, John D. Archbold, John Jacob Astor, 
Theodore M. Banta, Franklin Bartlett, James C. Bay- 
les, James ^L Beck, August Belmont, William Berri, 
Cornelius N. Bliss, E. W. Bloomingdale, Reginald 
Pelham Bolton, Thomas W. Bradley, George V. 
Brower, E. Parmly Brown, Henry K. Bush-Brown, 
\Vm. L. Bull, E. H. Butler, Nicholas Murray Butler, 
J. Rider Cady, J. H. Callanan, Henrj' W. Cannon, 
Joseph H. Choate, Caspar Purdon Clarke, George C. 
Clausen, A. T. Clearwater, Thomas Clyde, E. C. Con- 
verse, Walter Cook, John H. Coyne, E. D. Cummings, 
William J. Curtis, Paul D. Cravath, Charles de Kay, 
James de la Montanye, Chauncey M. Depew, Edward 
DeWitt, William Draper, Charles A. DuBois, John C. 
Eames, George Ehret, Smith Ely, Arthur English, John 
M. Farley, J. Sloat Fassett, Barr Ferree, Stuyyesant 
Fish, Theodore Fitch, Winchester Fitch, J. J. Fitzgerald, 
Frederick de Peyster Foster, Thomas Powell Fowler, 
Austen G. Fox, Charles S. Francis, Henry C. Frick, Frank 
S. Gardner, Garret J. Garretson, Theodore P. Gilman, 
Robert Walton Goelet, W^illjam W. Goodrich, George 
J. Gould, George F. Gregory, Henry E. Gregory, 
W. L. Guillaudeu, xA.bner S. Haighc, Benjamin F. 
Hamilton, William S. Hawk, James A. Hearn, 
Peter Cooper Hewitt, Warren Higley, Michael H. 
Hirschberg, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Richard 
G. HoUaman, Willis Holly, Colgate Hoyt, LeRoy 
Hubbard, Thomas H. Hubbard, T. D. Huntting, 
August F. Jaccaci, William Jay, Hugh Kelly, 
James H. Kennedy, John H. Ketcham, Horatio 
C. King, Albert E. Kleinert, George F. Kunz, 
John LaFarge, Charles R. Lamb, Frederick S. Lamb, 
Homer Lee, Charles W. Lefler, Julius Lehrenkrauss, 
Henry M. Leipziger, Clarence Lexow, Gustay Linden- 
thai, Walter Seth Logan, Charles H. Loring, Seth 
Low, William A. Marble, George E. Matthews, Wil- 
liam McCarroU, Donald McDonald, William J. Mc- 



February 7, 1906 51 

Kay, St. Clair McKelway, Emerson McxMillin, George 
VV. Melville, Herman A. iMetz, John G. Milburn, Frank 
D. Millet, A. L.Mills. Og-den Mills, C.H.Niehaus,Ludwig 
Nissen Jacob W. Miller, VV. R. O'Donovan, Eben E. 
Olcott, William Church Osborn, Percy B. O'Sullivan, 
Orrel A. Parker, John E. Parsons, Samuel Parsons, Jr., 
Samuel H. Parsons, Sereno E. Payne, George Foster 
Peabody, R. E. Peary, Bayard L. Peck, Gordon H. 
Peck, Howland Pell, George W. Perkins, N. Taylor 
Phillips, Thomas C. Piatt, George A. Plimpton, Eugene 
H. Porter, Horace Porter. Henry C. Potter, Cornelius 
A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raegener, Herman Ridder, 
Charles F. Roe, Carl J. Roehr, Louis T. Romaine, 
Thomas F. Ryan, George Henry Sargent, Herbert L. 
Satterlee, Charles A. Schermerhorn, Jacob Gould 
Schurman, Gustav H. Schwab, Isaac N. Seligman, 
Louis Seligsberg, Joseph H. Senner, Frederick W. 
Seward, George F. Seward, VV^illiam F. Sheehan, J. 
Edward Simmons, |ohn W. Simpson, E. V. Skinner, 
Charles Stewart Smith, Nelson S. Spencer, John H. 
Starin, Isaac Stern, Louis Stern, Francis Lynde Stet- 
son, Louis Stewart, James Stillman, Oscar S. Straus, 
Theodore Sutro, Henry C. Swords, Henry R. Towne, 
Spencer Trask, C. Y. Turner, Albert Ulmann, Aaron 
Vanderbilt, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vander- 
bilt, Henry Van Dyke, Warner Van Norden, Miss A. 
T. Van Santvoord, J. Leonard Varick, E. B. Vreeland, 
Charles G. F. Wahle, Samuel B. Ward. W. L. Ward, 
William C. Warren, Edward Wells, Jr., George West- 
inghouse, Charles W. Wetmore, Edmund Wetmore, 
J. Du Pratt White, Fred. C. Whitney, William R. Will- 
cox, James Grant Wilson, Chas. B.Wolffram,Timothy L. 
Woodruff, W. E. Woolley and James A. Wright, who 
were appointed by His Excellency, the Governor 
of the State of New York, or by the Mayor of the 
City of New York, as members of the Hudson Ter- 
centenary Joint Committee and of the Fulton Centen- 
nial Committee, and all such persons as are or may 
hereafter be associated with them, by the appoint- 
ment of the Governor or of the said Mayor, shall 



52 February 7, 1906 

be and are hereby constituted a body politic and 
corporate by the name of the Hudson Ter-Centenary 
Commission, which corporation shall be a public cor- 
poration, with all the powers specified in the eleventh 
Section of the General Corporation Law, except as 
otherwise provided b}' this Act. It shall have no 
capital stock. 

Section 2. The object of said corporation shall 
be the public celebration or commemoration of the 
Ter-Centenary of the discovery of the Hudson River 
by Hendrik Hudson in the year 1609, and of the first 
use of steam in the navigation of said river by Robert 
Fulton in the year 1807, in such manner and form, 
either permanent or temporary, as may be found ap- 
propriate by said Commission. 

Section 3. The said Commission shall have 
power to acquire, hold and possess for the purposes 
of its incorporation real or personal estate within the 
State of New York in fee or for a term of years, or 
any easement therein, by gift, devise, bequest, grant, 
lease or purchase; and in case such Commission should 
be unable to agree with the owners thereof for the pur- 
chase or lease of any real estate required for the pur- 
poses of its incorporation, it shall have the right to 
acquire the same, by condemnation, in the manner 
provided by the Condemnation Law^, being Chapter 23 
of the Code of Civil Procedure. 

Section 4. The affairs and business of said Com- 
mission shall be conducted by a Board of not less than 
twenty-five nor more than one hundred trustees, a 
quorum of whom for the transaction of business shall 
be fixed by the By-Laws. 

The trustees for the first year shall be Theodore 
Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Levi P. Morton, David 
B. Hill, Frank S. Black, Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., Stew- 
art L. Woodford, Robert B. Roosevelt, Andrew Car- 
negie, Frederick D. Grant, Morris K. Jesup, William 
Rockefeller, William B. Van Rensselaer, Andrew D. 



February 7, 1906 53 

White, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry VV. Sackett, Ed- 
ward Hagaman Hall, James M. Beck, J. Rider Cady, 
Henry W. Cannon, Joseph H. Choate, William J. Cur- 
tis, J. Sloat Farsett, Theodore Fitch, Frederick de 
Peyster Fostei", Thomas Powell Fowler, Charles S. 
Francis, William W. Goodrich, Warren Higley, 
Thomas H. Hubbard, August F. Jaccaci, William 
Jay, James H. Kennedy, Horatio C. King, George 
Frederick Kunz. John LaFarge, Henry INI. Leipziger, 
Seth Low, William McCarroll, William J. McKay. 
Emerson McMillin, John G. Milburn, Frank D. Millet, 
Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, Sereno E. Payne, 
Horace Porter, Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raeg- 
ener, Herman Ridder, Jacob Gould Schurman, Fred- 
erick W. Seward, J. Edward Simmons, Charles Stew- 
art Smith, Francis Lynde Stetson, Oscar S. Straus, Cor- 
nelius Vanderbilt, Henry Van Dyke, Samuel B. Ward, 
Andrew D. White and James Grant Wilson. 

Such trustees shall make the By-Laws of the Com- 
mission, providing among other things for the election 
of their successors within thirteen months from the pas- 
sage of this act, and for the election of officers, as 
therein specified, to hold office until the succeeding an- 
nual election of trustees, and until their successors are 
elected, and for the filling of vacancies in any office. 
They shall continue to hold office until the succeeding 
election of trustees to the number and in the manner 
provided by the said By-Laws. 

Section 5. None of the trustees or members of 
said Commission, except one or more assistants to the 
Secretary, shall receive an}- compensation for services, 
nor shall any of them be pecuniarily interested directly 
or indirectly in any contract relating to the affairs of 
said Commission ; nor shall said Commission make any 
dividend or division of its property among its members, 
managers or officers. 

Sfxtion 6. Said Commission shall annually make 
to the Legislature a statement of its affairs, and from 



54 February 7, 1906 

time to time report to the Legislature such recommen- 
dations as are pertinent to the objects for which it is 
created, and may act jointly or otherwise with any 
persons appointed by any other State for purposes sim- 
ilar to those intended to be accomplished by this Act. 

Section 7. Whenever the Commission shall re- 
port to the Legislature that the purposes for which the 
Commission is created have been attained and all its 
debts and obligations have been paid, its remaining 
real and personal property shall be disposed of as the 
Legislature may direct. 

Section 8. The Commission shall have power to 
receive subscriptions from parties who may desire to 
contribute to the object of the said Commission. 

Section 9. The Treasurer of the State of New 
York, within one month after the passage of this act, 
shall pay to the said Commission the sum of 
dollars out of any funds of the State not otherwise ap- 
propriated, such sum to be used for the purposes of 
said Commission. 

Section 10. 1 he City of New York may provide 
and pa}' to the said Commission such sums of money 
as it shall deem expedient for the purpose of carrying 
out the objects of the Commission. 

Section II. The property of the Commission 
shall be devoted 1.0 public use, and shall be exempt 
from an}^ assessment or tax for State, county, town or 
local purposes until the year 1916. Such corporation 
shall also be exempt during such term from taxation 
under Section 182 of the Tax Law. 

Section 12. The Commission ma}- appomt and 
employ, at its own expense, policemen, with all the 
powers of such officers in cities, towns and villages, 
for the preservation of order and of public peace upon 



February 7, 1906 55 

the land or property belonging; to or used by said 
Commission for the purpose of its incorporation. 
Each of such policemen shall be appointed from the 
first three names appearing- at the time of appointment 
on a list or lists of persons determined to be eligible 
for the position by competitive examinations to be 
held by the State Civil Service Commission, which 
Commission is hereby empowered to conduct the 
same and to certify said lists in accordance with the 
provisions of the Civil Service Law and its rules, so 
far as applicable, provided that, if the name of any 
person on said list be passed in appointment three 
times, it shall be dropped from the list. All such ap- 
pointments and removals of persons so ap]:)ointed shall 
be certified by the proper officer of the Hudson Ter- 
centenary Commission to the State Civil Service 
Commission within ten days after they shall be made 
respectively. Nothing in this section contained shall 
be construed as in any manner limiting or abridging 
the power of fhe local authorities to appoint, at their 
expense, officers of the peace to act upon the land or 
property of the Corporation. 

Section 13. The duration of the Corporation 
shall be ten years. 

Section 14. This Act shall take effect immedi- 
ately. 



J|ub0on Cer Centenary 
3oint Committee 



9lppointrIi bp 

(E^lje ^obernor of tlje ^tatf of j^fto ^orfe anD 
^\)t spavor of tlje Cit^ of ^m ^orfe 



lpre8i^ent 

Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 



lPlcc=pre8l^cnt8 
Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt Hon. Levi P. Morton 

Andrew Carnegie William Rockefeller 

Brig.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. William B. Van Rensselaer 

Morris K. Jesup Hon. Andrkw D. White 

XTreasurer 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 

23 Wall Street, New York 

Secretary assistant Secretary 

Henry W. Sackett Edward Hagaman Hall 

Tribune Building, New York Tribune Building, New York 



Permanently Organized, December 5, 1Q05 



minutes of February 14, 1906. 



Executive Committee 



Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman iS Wall Street, New York 

Hon. Frank S. Black Troy, New York 

James M. Beck 44 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J. Rider Cady Hudson, New York 

Henry \V. Cannon 10 Wall Street, New York 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East 91st Street, New York 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 60 Wall Street, New York 

William J. Curtis. ..49 Wall Street, New York 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett Elmira, New York 

Theodore Fitch 120 Broadway, New York 

Thomas Powell Fowler 56 Beaver Street, New York 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis Troy, New York 

Hon. William W. Goodrich 49 Wall Street, New York 

Brig.-Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, U. S. A Governor's Island, New York 

Edward Hagaman Hall ..Tribune Building, New York 

Hon. Warren Higley 68 West 40th Street, New York 

Hon. David B. Hill Albany, New York 

August F. Jaccaci .7 West 43d Street, New York 

Col. William Jay 48 Wall Street, New York 

Morris K. Jesup 44 Pine Street, New York 

Gen. Horatio C. King 375 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 

Dr. George F. Kunz. Tiffany & Company, New York 

John La Farge 51 West loth Street, New York 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. Park Avenue & 59th Street, New York 

Hon. Seth Low 30 East 64th Street, New York 

Frank D. Millet. 6 East 23d Street, New York 

William J. McKay.. Newburgh, New York 

Hon. Levi P. Morton 38 Nassau Street, New York 

Eben E. Olcott Desbrosses Street Pier, New York 

John E. Parsons 52 William Street, New York 

Hon. Sereno E. Payne Auburn, New York 

Gen. Horace Porter Union League Club, New York 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peekskill, New York 

Louis C. Raegener 141 Broadway, New York 

Herman Ridder 2 Tryon Row, New York 

William Rockefeller 26 Broadway, New York 

Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt .57 Fifth Avciuue, New York 

Col. Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York 

President J. G. Schurman Ithaca, New York 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, New York 

Charles Stewart Smith 25 West 47th Street, New York 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus 5 West 76th Street, New York 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 15 Washington Square, New York 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D Princeton, New Jersey 

William B. Van Rensselaer Albany, New York 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany, New York 

Hon. Andrew D. White Ithaca, New York 

Gen. James Grant Wilson 621 Fifth Avenue, New York 



Minutes of 

The Executive Committee 

February 14, 1906 

The sixth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee was held in the 
Governors' Room of the City Hall at 2 P. M. Wednesday, 
February 14, 1906. 

Present: The Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 
and Messrs. John G. Agar, James M. Beck, Theodore Fitch, 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Major-Gen. Frederick D. 
Grant, Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Dr. 
George F. Kunz, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, William J. 
McKay, Bayard L. Peck, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon, 
Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raegener, Herman Ridder, 
Henry W. Sackett, President J. G. Schurman, Hon. Fred- 
erick W. Seward, Nelson S. Spencer, William B. Van 
Rensselaer and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Letters of regret for absence were received from 
Messrs. William J. Curtis, Hon. Charles S. Francis, August 
F. Jaccaci, Morris K, Jesup, Hon. Seth Low, Frank D. 
Millet, John E. Parsons, Charles Stewart Smith, Francis 
Lynde Stetson, Dr. Samuel B. Ward and Hon. Andrew D. 
White, and they were excused. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved without 
reading. 

The Secretary stated that he had expended to date, 
with the authority of the Executive Committee, $790.65, 
and he moved that these expenditures be referred to the 
Joint Committee. Carried. 

The Assistant Secretary read a copy of resolutions 
adopted by the Board of Trustees of the village of Tarry- 
town, January 29, and certified by Edward M. Berrien, 
Clerk, declaring in favor of a permanent exposition at Ver- 
planck's Point. The Assistant Secretary was requested to 
acknowledge the receipt of the resolutions with the thanks 
of the Committee, and the communication was ordered on 
file. 

The Chairman announced that Austen G. Fox, Esq., 



6o Minutes of Executive Committee 

had been compelled by his professional engagements to 
decline the position of Chairman of the Committee on 
Legislation and that he had appointed in his place the 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, formerly Presiding Justice of 
the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. 

Judge Goodrich then presented the tentative draft of 
a Charter for the Commission as given on pages 49-55 of 
the printed minutes, which had previously been mailed to 
every member of the Joint Committee. He explained 
briefly the plan on which the proposed charter had been 
drawn and stated that the list of incorporators included all 
the members of the Hudson Ter-Centenary JointCommittee 
appointed bythe Governor and Mayor and the Fulton Cen- 
tennial Commission appointed by the Mayor, together with 
several names which had been submitted to the Governor 
and received his approval. The list of Trustees consisted 
of public men like Mr. Cleveland and former Governors of 
the State, the officers and Executive Committee of the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee, and the officers 
of the Fulton Centennial Commission. The latter, he 
understood, had no Executive Committee. 

With the approval of his colleagues on the Legislative 
Committee, he suggested one or two modifications of the 
draft as printed. (These were adopted when the Charter 
was taken up by sections.) 

Upon the conclusion of Judge Goodrich's report, it 
was voted that the report be received and that the Charter 
be considered by sections. 

Section i was adopted without other amendment than 
the omission of a few names of those who had declined to 
serve and the insertion of a few other names of gentlemen 
who had subsequently been appointed. Among those who 
felt constrained by his official position to decline was Presi- 
dent Roosevelt. 

Section 2 was adopted without change. 

Section 3 was amended by the addition of the proviso: 
" Provided, however, that no real property shall be acquired 
by condemnation within the City of New York until after 
the approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
of that city." This was upon the suggestion of the Hon. 
N. Taylor Phillips, Deputy Comptroller of the city and a 
member of the Joint Committee. 



February 14, 1906 61 

Section 4 was amended by omitting from the list of 
trustees the name of President Roosevelt and adding the 
names of the members of the Finance Committee, the Com- 
mittee on Legislation, Deputy Comptroller Phillips and 
State Health Officer Eugene H. Porter, M.D. 

Section 5 was amended upon suggestion of Dr. Kunz 
by adding the words: "nor shall any member of the Com- 
mission nor any trustee be liable individually for any of 
its debts or liabilities." 

Sections 6, 7 and 8 were adopted without amendment. 

Section 9 was adopted without other amendment than 
the insertion in the blank space of " $25,000 " as the amount 
of the appropriation. 

Section 10 was amended to read: "The City of New 
York may provide for the said Commission such sums of 
money as the city shall deem expedient and in such a 
manner as it shall deem proper for the purpose of carrying 
out the objects of the Commission." The change was 
made to carry out the substance of a suggestion by ex- 
Mayor Low. 

Section 11 was adopted without change. 

Section 12 was omitted upon the recommendation of 
the Committee on Legislation. 

Sections 13 and 14 were adopted with their section 
numbers changed to 12 and 13, respectively. 

The Charter as amended was unanimously recom- 
mended to the Joint Committee for adoption. 

During the consideration of the Charter there was a 
general discussion of the various provisions, in which 
Judge Goodrich, Secretary Seward, Mr. Fitch, Judge Hig- 
ley, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Raegener, Mr. McKay, President 
Schurman, Dr. Kunz, Mr. Van Rensselaer and others 
participated. 

Gen. Woodford then gave a report of the interview 
which the Committee appointed for that purpose had had 
with President Roosevelt by appointment Saturday even- 
ing, February loth. The Committee, consisting of Gen. 
Woodford, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. James M. Beck and 
Hon. Charles S. Francis, saw both the President and the 
Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State. " The President gave 
us an hour and a half," said Gen. Woodford, "and went 
over the whole matter with us very thoroughly. As the 



62 Minutes of Executive Committee 

first Manhattan President, and as one of the only two 
Dutch Presidents, Mr. Roosevelt was doubly interested in 
the celebration. The question of getting Federal aid was 
very thoroughly threshed out, and the President expressed 
himself as being of the very clear opinion that we could not 
get any help from the Federal Government ; that there had 
been so many applications for aid in different directions 
that he thought New York would have to celebrate its own 
birthday, do it in its own form, and have the pleasure of 
paying its own bills. And I would say, on behalf of the 
Committee, that we held a long meeting after the interview 
with the President, and we all came to the conclusion that 
it was neither wise nor expedient to make any application 
w^hatever to the Federal Government for aid, and that we 
had better confine ourselves to such a celebration as New 
York State and New York City are willing to provide. It 
is our birthday, the three hundredth birthday of the City 
of New York, New York for a hundred years has been 
taking toll on the commerce of this country as it has come 
in and gone out of the port of New York. We have the 
wealth of the continent here, and I believe that when this 
matter is presented fully to our people we shall have a 
great and a successful celebration, and I believe that we 
shall have a greater celebration if New York City and New 
York State do it for themselves than if we go around with 
our hats in our hands asking for gifts." 

Mr. Sackett asked if that would preclude the Federal 
Government from joining in the celebration with its navy 
or in any other way. 

Gen. Woodford replied: "It was the unanimous feel- 
ing of our Committee that if New York besought nobody 
to pay for us we shall have the National Government and 
the nations of the world eager to join us in whatever form 
of celebration we agree on." 

A brief discussion ensued as to the advisability of ask- 
ing Governor Higgins to invite Governor Stokes to appoint 
a Commission to represent New Jersey in co-operation with 
this Commission, but after remarks by Mr. Raegener, 
Judge Goodrich, President Schurman and the Secretary, 
it was decided that such a course would be premature. 

There was also a short discussion by Gen. Wilson, 
Mr. Raegener, Secretary Seward, Judge Goodrich and the 



February 14, 1906 63 

Secretary of the question whether the form of celebration 
should be taken up for consideration. 

Upon motion of Secretary Seward it was voted that 
"the Executive Committee recommends to the Joint Com- 
mittee that the consideration of the form of celebration be 
postponed until the charter has been obtained." 

A letter was read from Mr. John R. Van Wormer, 
chairman of the voluntary " Citizens' Committee of 500," 
stating that their promised brochure in regard to a perma- 
nent international exposition had been delayed on account 
of the numerous revisions and additions which had been 
necessary. 

At 4 o'clock the meeting adjourned, subject to the call 
of the Chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretarv. 






Minutes of 

The Joint Committee 

February 14, 1906 

The second meeting of the Hudson Ter-Centenary 
Joint Committee was held in the Governors' Room of the 
City Hall, New York, Wednesday, February 14, 1906, at 4 
P. M., the President, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, presiding. 

Upon calling the meeting to order the President said: 
" Gentlemen, His Honor the Mayor has suggested that, as 
the anniversary of the first use of steam upon the Hudson 
River will occur in the summer of 1907, and the three hun- 
dredth anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson and 
the island of Manhattan will occur in September, 1909, and 
as both events relate so closely to the Hudson River, the 
two celebrations might well be united with somewhat of 
saving in expense to the city and with an enlargement of 
the purpose and the function of the celebration itself. 
Feeling that all the members of our Joint Committee would 
sympathize with His Honor the Mayor in this suggestion, 
the Secretary of the Joint Committee has invited Mr. Wil- 
liam McCarroll, the Chairman of the Fulton Commission, 
and the members of that ci^mmission to meet with us this 
afternoon. And, Mr. McCarroll, we are cordially glad to 
seeyou, and if you will honor the Commission and the Chair 
by sitting with me it will be a pleasure to all of us to greet 
you." 

Mr. McCarroll thereupon took his seat beside Gen. 
Woodford. 

The first business taken up was the recommendation 
of the Executive Committee that an Auditing Committee 
of three be appointed, and a motion to that effect was car- 
ried. The President subsequently appointed Messrs. Isaac 
N. Seligman, Spencer Trask and Col. William Jay. 

The charter recommended by the Executive Committee 
was then taken up, and was explained by Judge William 
W. Goodrich, Chairman of the Committee on Legislation. 
(See minutes of Executive Committee of this date.) 

Mr. Theodore Fitch moved that the charter as amended 
be adopted, and that the Committee on Legislation, in con- 
junction with the Committee appointed to call on the Gov- 
ernor, be requested to submit it to the Legislature. 

The Hon. Frederick W. Seward suggested that it be 



February 14, 1906 65 

presented, if possible, through the Governor, and Mr. Fitch 
accepted the amendment. 

The question of adopting the charter being before the 
house, Mr. McCarroll expressed the wish of the Fulton 
Centennial Commission that the title of the new Commis- 
sion contain the name of Fulton as well as Hudson. 

In the ensuing discussion, participated in by Judge 
Goodrich and Messrs. Theodore Fitch, Jacob W. Miller, 
Richard G. Hollaman, E. Parmly Brown, Percy B. O'Sul- 
livan, Louis C. Raegener, Abner S. Haight, Isaac N. Selig- 
man, President J. G. Schurman, Louis T. Romaine, the 
Secretary and others, various opinions were expressed. 
Some opposed the insertion of the word " Fulton," some 
favored it, and some suggested intermediate courses. 

Finally it was voted by a large majority that section 
I be amended by changing the name of the Commission 
to the " Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission." 

The Hon. Herman A. Metz, Comptroller of the City of 
New York, felt that as a matter of official propriety his 
name should be omitted from the list of incorporators and 
trustees, and upon his request it was so omitted, with regret. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, the historian, suggested that 
the name " Hendrick Hudson " be changed to " Henry 
Hudson " in section 2, as Hudson was an Englishman and 
his name was Henry. Gen. Wilson said that in an ad- 
dress which he made in May, 1903, he had called Hudson 
" Hendrick," and incurred the criticism of some of the 
highest literary authorities in the land. (See Governor Hig- 
gins' official opinion on this subject on page 72 of these 
minutes.) 

The Assistant Secretary stated that in the body of the 
contract between Hudson and the East India Company, 
under which the navigator sailed in 1609, and which was 
written in the Dutch language, by Dutch lawyers, in the 
Dutch city of Amsterdam, Hudson was mentioned as "Mr. 
Henry Hudson," and that Hudson signed the document 
with his baptismal name, " Henry Hudson." 

On motion of Secretary Seward it was voted to amend 
section 2 by changing the name " Hendrick " to " Henry." 

The other sections were adopted without change, and 
then the charter, as amended, was adopted as a whole. 

The Secretary laid before the Joint Committee certain 



66 Minutes of Joint Committee 

recommendations of the Executive Committee concerning 
financial matters, with explanations which have been em- 
bodied in the minutes of the Executive Committee and sent 
to all members of the Joint Committee. He added that in 
view of the merging of the Hudson and Fulton Committees 
it had been suggested between the representatives of the 
two bodies that the invitation which had already been sent 
to the members of the Hudson Committee to contribute 
ten dollars each toward the payment of preliminary ex- 
penses should be sent to the members of the Fulton Com- 
mittee, and that the obligations incurred by the latter, 
amounting to about $ioo, should be paid from the treasury 
of the newly constituted Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission. 

It was voted that the Auditing Committee be author- 
ized to pass upon and approve for payment all obligations 
properly incurred by both the Hudson and Fulton Com- 
mittees and by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 

It was voted that the engagement of Edward Hagaman 
Hall as Assistant Secretary at a salary of $2,500 a year, 
payable in monthly installments, dating from his election, 
December 5, 1905, be approved. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
Chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Assistant Secretarv. 



REPORT ON PROGRESS OF CHARTER. 



On Friday, February 16, 1906, General Stewart L. 
Woodford, President of the Joint Committee; Judge 
William W. Goodrich, Chairman of the Committee on 
Legislation; the Hon. Charles S. Francis, James M. Beck, 
Esq , and Herman Ridder, Esq., called on Governor Higgins 
at Albany and laid before him the proposed Charter and 
communicated the request of the Joint Committee that he 
transmit it to the Legislature with a special message. The 
Governor expressed great interest in the matter and indicat- 
ed his willingness to accede to the Committee's request. 



Progress of Charter 67 

He suggested some changes in the draft. To meet his 
views, the title of the act was changed to read: "An act 
to establish the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 
and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and making 
an appropriation therefor." 

Section 9 was amended (as appears hereafter) to con- 
form the bill to appropriation acts generally, to include the 
usual clause making it clear that no indebtedr\ess in excess 
of the appropriation should be incurred, and providing for 
reports to the Governor. 

Section 11, exempting the property of the Commission 
from taxation, was eliminated, as the Constitution provides 
that the Legislature shall not pass any private or local bill 
granting to any persons, association, firm or corporation 
an exemption from taxation on real and personal property. 
It was the Governor's view that the Commission would be 
a State agency and not taxable in any event. 

On February 19 the Governor sent to the Legislature 
with the following special message: 

State of New York, 
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, 

Albany, February 19, 1906. 
To the Legislature : 

During the past year historical societies and public- 
spirited citizens have been looking forward to some action 
on the part of the State and City of New York for the 
appropriate celebration of the three hundredth anniversary 
of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in 
the year 1609 and of the centennial anniversary of the first 
use of steam in the navigation of the Hudson River by 
Robert Fulton in the year 1807. These two events in the 
history of the Hudson River are of such interest to the 
State of New York and to the United States that it seems 
fitting that proper celebration of each should be had. 

Having in view such official action, I acceded to the 
request of many gentlemen interested in the plan to name 
a Committee of distinguished citizens, with whom a Com- 
mittee named by the Mayor of the city of New York should 
co-operate to formulate plans for a celebration of the Ter- 
centenary of the discovery of the Hudson. 

It has been suggested by this Committee, after long 
and careful consideration, that both events might, with 
propriety, be celebrated together in the year 1909, and that 
the union of these two observances would strengthen each 
and would more effectually concentrate upon the affair 
the attention of the world. 



68 Progress of Charter 

The Committee now acting has no official status and 
is wholly an informal and unofficial body. In order to give 
it official standing and to provide it with sufficient funds 
for preliminary expenses, I recommend to the Legislature 
the consideration of a bill entitled "An Act to establish the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, and to prescribe 
the powers and duties thereof, and making an appropri- 
ation therefor," a copy of which is herewith transmitted 
for your consideration, 

(Signed) 

FRANK W. HIGGINS. 

Upon the receipt of the message, the Hon. John Raines 
introduced the bill in the Senate and the Hon. Sherman 
Moreland in the Assembly. 

The bill reads as follows: 

AN ACT 

To establish the Hudson-Fulton celebration commission, 
and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof and 
making an appropriation therefor. 

The People of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 

Section i. Grover Cleveland, Levi P. Morton, David B. 
Hill, Frank S. Black, Benjamin B. Odell, junior, Stewart L. 
Woodford, Robert B. Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Fred- 
erick D. Grant, Morris K. Jesup, William Rockefeller, 
William B. Van Rensselaer, Andrew D. White, J. Pierpont 
Morgan, Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, Her- 
bert Adams, R. B, Aldcroft, junior, John G. Agar, B. Alt- 
man, Louis Annin Ames, John E. Andrus, James K. Apgar, 
John D. Archbold, John Jacob Astor, Theodore M. Banta, 
Franklin Bartlett, James C. Bayles, James M. Beck, August 
Belmont, William Berri, Cornelius N. Bliss, E. W. Bloom- 
ingdale, Reginald Pelham Bolton, Thomas W. Bradley, 
George V. Brower, E. Parmly Brown, Henry K. Bush- 
Brown, William L. Bull, E. H. Butler, Nicholas Murray 
Butler, J. Rider Cady, J. H, Callanan, Henry W. Cannon, 
Joseph H. Choate, Caspar Purdon Clarke, George C. 
Clausen, A. T. Clearwater, Thomas Clyde, E. C. Converse, 
Walter Cook, John H. Coyne, E. D. Cummings, William J. 
Curtis, Paul D. Cravath, Charles de Kay, James de la Mon- 
tayne, Chauncey M. Depew, Edward DeWitt, William 
Draper, Charles A. DuBois, John C Fames, George Ehrel, 
Smith Ely, Arthur English, John M. Farley, J. Sloat Fassett. 
Barr Ferree, Stuyvesant Fish, Theodore Fitch, Winchester 
Fitch, J. J. Fitzgerald, Thomas Powell Fowler, Austen G. 
Fox, Charles S. Francis, Henry C. Frick, Frank S. Gardner, 



Progress of Charter 69 

Garret J. Garretson, Theodore P. Gilman, Robert Walton 
Goelet, William W, Goodrich, George J. Gould, George F. 
Gregory, Henry E. Gregory, W. L. Guillaudeu, Abner S. 
Haight, Benjamin F. Hamilton, William S. Hawk, James 
A. Hearn, Peter Cooper Hewitt, Warren Higley, Michael 
H. Hirschberg, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Willis Holly, 
Colgate Hoyt, LeRoy Hubbard, Thomas H. Hubbard, T. 
D. Huntting, August F. Jaccaci, William Jay, Hugh Kelly, 
John H. Ketcham, Horatio C. King, Albert E. Kleinert, 
George F. Kunz, John LaFarge, Charles R. Lamb, Fred- 
erick S. Lamb, Homer Lee, Charles W. Lefler, Julius 
Lehrenkrauss, Henry M. Leipziger, Clarence Lexow, Gus- 
tav Lindenthal, Walter Seth Logan, Charles H. Loring, 
Seth Low, William A. Marble, George E. Matthews, 
William McCarroll, Donald McDonald, William J. McKay, 
Saint Clair McKelway, George W. Melville, John G. Mil- 
burn, Jacob W. Miller, Frank D. Millet, A. L. Mills, Ogden 
Mills, C. H' Niehaus, Ludwig Nissen, W. R. O'Donovan, 
Eben E. Qlcott, William Church Osborn, Percy B. O'Sulli- 
van, Orrel A. Parker, John E. Parsons, Samuel Parsons, 
junior, Samuel H. Parsons, Sereno E.Payne, George Foster 
Peabody, R. E. Peary, Bayard L, Peck, Gordon H. Peck, 
Howland Pell, George W. Perkins, N. Taylor Phillips, 
Thomas C. Piatt, George A. Plimpton, Eugene H. Porter, 
Horace Porter, Henry C. Potter, Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Louis C. Raegener, Herman Ridder, Charles F. Roe, Carl 
J. Roehr, Louis T. Romaine, Thomas F. Ryan, George 
Henry Sargent, Herbert L. Satterlee, Charles A. Schermer- 
horn, Jacob Gould Schurman, Gustav H. Schwab. Isaac N. 
Seligman, Louis Seligsburg, Joseph H. Senner, Frederick 
W. Seward, George F. Seward, William F. Sheehan, J. 
Edward Simmons, John W. Simpson, E. V. Skinner, Charles 
Stewart Smith, Nelson S. Spencer, John H. Starin, Isaac 
Stern, Louis Stern, Francis Lynde Stetson, Louis Stewart, 
James Stillman, Oscar S. Straus, Theodore Sutro, Henry 
R. Towne, Irving Townsend, Spencer Trask, C. Y. Turner, 
Albert Ulmann, Aaron Vanderbilt, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Van Dyke, Warner Van Nor- 
den. Miss A. T. Van Santvoord, J. Leonard Varick, E. B. 
Vreeland, Charles G. F. Wahle, Samuel B. Ward, W. L. 
Ward, William Warren, Edward Wells, junior, Charles W. 
Wetmore, Edmund Wetmore, Henry A. Wetmore, J. Du- 
Pratt White, Fred C. Whitney, William R. Willcox, James 
Grant Wilson, Charles B. Wolffram, Timothy L. Woodruff, 
W. E. Woolley, and James A. Wright, who were named by 
the governor of the state of New York, or by the mayor of 
the city of New York, as members of the Hudson ter- 
centenary joint committee and of the Fulton centennial 
committee, and all such persons as are or may hereafter be 
associated with them, by the appointment of the governor 
or of the said mayor, shall be and are hereby constituted 



70 Progress of Charter 

a body politic and corporate by the name of the Hudson- 
Fulton celebration commission, which corporation shall be 
a public corporation with all the powers specified in the 
eleventh section of the general corporation law, except as 
otherwise provided by this act. It shall have no capital 
stock. 

Section 2. The object of said corporation shall be the 
public celebration or commemoration of the ter-centenary 
of the discovery of the Hudson river by Henry Hudson 
in the year sixteen hundred and nine, and of the first use 
of steam in the navigation of said river by Robert Fulton 
in the year eighteen hundred and seven, in such manner 
and form, either permanent or temporary, as may be found 
appropriate by said commission. 

Section 3. The said commission shall have power to 
acquire, hold and possess for the purposes of its incor- 
poration real or personal estate within the state of New 
York in fee or for a term of years or any easement 
therein, by gift, devise, bequest, grant, lease or purchase ; 
and in case such commission should be unable to agree 
with the owners thereof for the purchase or lease of any 
real estate required for the purposes of its incorporation, 
it shall have the right to acquire the same, by condemna- 
tion, in the manner provided by the condemnation law, 
being chapter twenty-three of the code of civil procedure; 
provided, however, that no real property shall be acquired 
by condemnation within the city of New York until after 
the approval of the board of estimate _and apportionment 
of that city. 

Section 4. The affairs and business of said commission 
shall be conducted by a board of not less than twenty-five 
nor more than one hundred trustees, a quorum of whom 
for the transaction of business shall be fixed by the by-laws. 
The trustees for the first year shall be Grover Cleveland, 
Levi P. Morton, David B. Hill, Frank S. Black, Benjamin 
B. Odell, junior, Stewart L. Woodford, Robert B. Roose- 
velt, Andrew Carnegie. Frederick D. Grant. Morris K. 
Jesup, William Rockefeller, William B. Van Rensselaer, 
Andrew D. White, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry W. Sackett, 
Edward Hagaman Hall, John G. Agar, James M. Beck, J. 
Rider Cady, Henry W. Cannon, Joseph H. Choate, Paul D. 
Cravath, William J. Curtis, J. Sloat Fassett, Stuyvesant 
Fish, Theodore Fitch, Thomas Powell Fowler, Charles 
S. Francis, William W. Goodrich, George J. Gould, 
Warren Higley, August F. Jaccaci, William Jay, 
Horatio C. King, George Frederick Kunz, John 
LaFarge, Henry M. Leipziger, Seth Low, William 
McCarroll, William J. McKay, John G. Milburn, Frank D. 
Millet, Ogden Mills, Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, 
Sereno E. Payne, Bayard L. Peck, N. Taylor Phillips, 
Eugene H. Porter, Horace Porter, Cornelius A. Pugsley, 



Progress of Charter 71 

Louis C. Raegener, Herman Ridder, Jacob Gould Schur- 
man, Isaac N. Seligman, Frederick W. Seward, J. Edward 
Simmons, Charles Stewart Smith, Nelson S. Spencer, Fran- 
cis Lynde Stetson, James Stillman, Oscar S. Straus, Spen- 
cer Trask, A. G. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry- 
Van Dyke, Samuel B. Ward, and James Grant Wilson. 
Such trustees shall make the by-laws of the Commission, 
providing among other things for the election of their suc- 
cessors within thirteen months from the passage of this 
act, and for the election of officers, as therein specified, to 
hold office until the succeeding annual election of trustees, 
and until their successors are elected, and for the filling of 
vacancies in any office. They shall continue to hold office 
until the succeeding election of trustees to-the number and 
in the manner provided by the said by-laws. 

Section 5. None of the trustees or members of said 
commission, except one or more assistants to the secretary, 
shall receive any compensation for services, nor shall any 
of them be pecuniarily interested directly or indirectly in 
any contract relating to the affairs of said commission; 
nor shall said commission make any dividend or division 
of its property among its members, managers or officers ; 
nor shall any member of the commission nor any trustee 
be liable individually for any of its debts or liabilities. 

Section 6. Said commission shall annually make to 
the legislature a statement of its affairs, and from time to 
time report to the legislature such recommendations as are 
pertinent to the objects for which it is created, and may 
act jointly or otherwise with any persons appointed by any 
other state for purposes similar to those intended to be 
accomplished by this act. 

Section 7. Whenever the commission shall report to 
the legislature that the purposes for which the commission 
is created have been attained and all its debts and obliga- 
gations have been paid, its remaining real and personal 
property shall be disposed of as the legislature may direct. 

Section 8. The commission shall have power to 
receive subscriptions from parties who may desire to con- 
tribute to the object of the said commission. 

Section 9. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, 
so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri- 
ated out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise 
appropriated, for the purposes of this act. Such money 
shall be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the comp- 
troller issued upon a requisition signed by the president and 
secretary of the commission, accompanied by an estimate 
of the expenses for the payment of which money so drawn 
is to be applied. No indebtedness nor obligation shall 
be incurred under this act in excess of the appropriations 
herein or hereafter made, and such sums as may be pro- 
vided for said commission by the city of New York for the 



72 Progress of Charter 

purposes of this act. The commission shall, as requested 
by the governor, from time to time render to him reports 
of its proceedings. 

Section lo. The City of New York may provide for 
the said commission such sums of money as the city shall 
deem expedient and in such manner as it shall deem 
proper for the purposes of carrying out the objects of the 
commission. 

Section ii. The duration of the corporation shall be 
ten years. 

Section 12. This act shall take effect immediately. 

With respect to the proper spelling of the first name 
of Hudson, the Governor's Counsel, the Hon. Cuthbert W. 
Pound, wrote as follows to the editor of the Hudson, New 
York, Rcpublica?i, February 25th: 
Editor Hudson Republican^ Hudson^ N . V. 

Dear Sir : — 

The Governor directs me to reply to your favor of the 
2ist, and to say that the enclosed is the copy of the bill 
transmitted by him to the Legislature for the purpose of 
providing for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 
The Governor recognizes " Henry Hudson " as being the 
appropriate and proper form of the name of the discoverer 
of the Hudson. The spelling " Hendrick " in the copy 
which was given out to the press was due to an oversight 
on the part of the copyist, which was corrected in the 
original messages transmitted to the Legislature. 
Yours truly, 

Cuthbert W. Pound, 

Counsel to the Governor. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary., 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Assistant Secretary. 



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Sotttt Committee 



3lppotiUrtj fjp 

Ws^t ^oijernor of clie ^tate of jjr to ^ork anD 

^Ije £pa^or of t^c Cic^ of ipfto ^orb 



pre8f^cnt 
Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 

^Diceslpre8(^ents 

Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt Hon. Levi P. Morton 

Andrew Carnegie William Rockefeller 

Brig.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. William B. Van Reksselaer 

Morris K. Jesup Hon. Andrew D. White 

■treasurer 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 
23 Wall Street, New York 

Secretary Hssietant Sccretarv 

Henry W. S.ackett Edward Hagaman Hall 

Tribune Building, New York Tribune Building, New York 



Permanently Organized, December 5, 1905 



Minutes of April, 16, 1906, and Ciiarter. 



74 



Executive Committee 



Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chair,nan i8 Wall Street. New York 

Hon. Franks. Black - - , , Wall Street, New York 

James M. Beck - ■+ Hudson, New York 

Hon. J. Rider Cady - io Wall Street, New York 

Henry W Cannon Vkast gist Street, New York 

Andrew Carnegie - - ^^ ^^jj S^^^^^^ New York 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate ^^^j g^^^^^ ^^^ York 

William J. Curtis '^^ Elmira, New York 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett """iVo Broadway, New York 

Theodore Fitch - ----- " " " g gtreet. New York 

Thomas Powell Fowler - 5o dc ^ ^^^ ^^^^ 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis - - rq'WalVstreet, New York 

Hon. William W Go^dric^;-^- -^ Governor's Island, New York 

Brig. -Gen. Fredk D. Grant, L. b. A.-- Building, New York 

Edward Hagaman Hall - - - ^^^ York 

Hon. Warren Higley - t)» wes 4 ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ York 

Hon. David B. Hill -"w^st 43d Street, New York 

August F. Jaccaci--- - / ^^jj g^^^^^^ ^^^ York 

Col. William Jay 44 Pine Street, New York 

Morris K. Jesup.-. ,'75 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 

Gen. Horatio C. King ""Tiffiny & Company, New York 

Dr. George F.Kunz-- - ^^We^st ^oth Sueel New York 

John La Farge ----- p;;t" Avenue & 5Qth Street, New York 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. Park Avenue^^^ |9 ^ ^^^^^^. New York 

Hon. Seth Low ^ , Street, New York 

Frank D Millet ^ ^^'' Newburgh. New York 

William J. McKay ^s'Na'ssau Street, New York 

PhPn E^Olcott :::::;:-DVsbrosses S.reet Pier, New York 

Eben E. Olcott William Street, New York 

John E. Parsons - ^ Auburn, New York 

Hon. Sereno E. Payne T'jnion Le'aeue Club, New York 

Gen. Horace Porter^-- -. - Union League c ^^^^ ^^^^ 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley V4V Broadway, New York 

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75 



Minutes of 

The Joint Committee 

April i6, 1906 

The third meeting of the Hudson Ter-Centenary 
Joint Committee (including the Fulton Centennial Com- 
mittee) was held in the Governors' Room of the City Hall, 
New York, Monday, April 16, 1906, at 3:30 P. M. 

The President, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, presided. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved without 
reading. 

The President then said : " It may be proper at this 
moment to state just the condition of affairs and why our 
friends have been called together. A proposed bill for 
the creation of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion was prepared and submitted to Governor Higgins. It 
met his approval. He sent it with a special message to 
both Houses of the Legislature, where it was properly re- 
ferred. It was passed in the Assembly and sent to the 
Senate. It was amended in the Senate by the addition of 
one or two names of the incorporators. That required re- 
printing. It then passed the Senate as so amended and 
was sent to the Assembly, where it has been, as I am in- 
fomed, reported out from the Committee, and is on the 
third order of the reading for concurrence. Beyond all ques- 
tion it will within a few days pass the Assembly. As the 
Tenth Section of the Bill authorizes the City to make an 
expenditure of money under the charter, it will have to go 
to the Mayor for his approval. I have learned that the prac- 
tice is this, that when the Assembly shall have concurred 
in the amendments by the Senate, the bill then goes to the 
Secretary of State, by him is sent to the Mayor for his ac- 
tion, and if he approves it, it goes to the Governor for his 



76 Minutes of Joint Committee 

final action. As time Is now getting to be of the essence 
of the contract and our work has been very much delayed, 
it seemed to the friends with whom I consulted that it was 
best to call the Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee 
together to have them close up their affairs and authorize 
their Secretary and President to turn over what funds are 
in their hands and their records to the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission as soon as the Commission shall 
have been created by the Governor's signature of the 
Charter. That is the authority that we are going to ask 
the Committee to give us this afternoon. Although the 
bill has not been signed, we have called together the 
Trustees who are named in the new bill, in the hope that, 
while we have no legal organization to-day, we might save 
some little time by authorizing a committee of our number 
to prepare some general scheme of organization which can 
be carefully thought out within a few days before the sign- 
ing of the bill and reported to the Committee the day 
when you are called together for formal organization. 
This will save at least a week of time, and so I thought 
you would excuse the President if he called you together 
to-day to get authority to appoint such temporary com- 
mittee and save at least seven to ten days of time," 

The Secretary reported that he had personally paid 
all expenses thus far incurred by the Committee, amount- 
ing to $1,432.58, the receipted bills for which he placed be- 
fore the Committee. He read a letter from the Treasurer 
of the Com mittee, J. P. Morgan & Co., stating that there was 
$1,620 in the treasury. He then offered the following 
resolutions: 

^^ Resolved, That the President of this Joint Committee 
be and he hereby is authorized to draw upon the Treasurer, 
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., from the funds of the Com- 
mittee deposited with them, to repay the Secretary for the 
disbursements already made by him on behalf of the 
Committee, amounting at the present time to $1,432.58; 
and also to draw upon said Treasurer from the balance of 
said funds to pay any other expenses of this Committee 
that may seem to him proper; and 

^^ Resolved, That upon the organization of the Board of 
Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 
the officers of this Committee be and they hereby are 



April 1 6, 1906 f] 

authorized, after the payment of all its expenses and obli- 
gations, to turn over to said Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission all its remaining funds and other property." 

The resolutions were adopted. 

The President then suggested that a resolution to 
provide for a dissolution of the Committee would be in 
order, and the Secretary offered the following: 

'''Resolved, That upon the organization of the Board of 
Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
and the turning over by the officers of this Committee to 
such Corporation of all its remaining funds and other 
property, this Committee be dissolved." 

The resolution was adopted. 

The President: "Gentlemen, this closes the work of 
the Committee. I have taken the liberty of asking the 
Trustees named in the new act to meet informally, after 
the adjournment of this Committee, in the hope that we 
can facilitate the preliminary work. The Committee hav- 
ing now practically dissolved, I want to thank you all for 
your kindness to me while I have been in the Chair, and I 
now retire, leaving the business in the hands of the new 
Trustees." 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



informal meeting of the persons designated in the 
charter of the hudson-fulton celebration 

commission AS TRUSTEES 

Immediately after the adjournment of the Hudson 
Ter-Centenary Joint Committee an informal meeting of 
the Trustees named in the proposed Charter of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held in the 
Governors' Room of the City Hall, New York, Monday, 
April i6th, 1906, at 4 P. M. 

Present — Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Wm. J. Curtis, 
Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, August F. 



78 Informal Meeting of Trustees 

Jaccaci, Col. Wm. Jay, Wm. J. McKay, Rear Admiral Geo. 
W. Melville, U. S. N.; Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, 
Bayard L. Peck, Hon, Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C. 
Raegener, Herman Ridder, Henry W. Sackett, Isaac N 
Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Hon. Oscar S. 
Straus and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Messrs. 
J. H. Callanan, Hon. A. T Clearwater, Austen G. Fox, 
Morris K. Jesup, Hugh Kelly, Dr. George F. Kunz, John 
La Farge, Hon. Clarence Lexow, Hon. Seth Low, Hon. 
Sereno E. Payne, President J. G. Schurman, C. V. Turner, 
Dr. S. B. Ward and Wm. L. Ward. 

Gen. Woodford was elected temporary Chairman. 

Col. Sackett was elected temporary Secretary. 

Mr. Hall was elected temporary Assistant Secretary. 

Mr. Raegener moved that a committee be appointed 
to prepare a plan of organization to be reported to the 
Board of Trustees at their first formal meeting, the num- 
ber and names of those to constitute this committee to be 
left to the Chair. Carried. 

The Chairman subsequently appointed as such com- 
mittee the Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Hon. Frederick W. 
Seward and Messrs. J. Edward Simmons, James M. Beck, 
Isaac N. Seligman, Theodore Fitch, Louis C. Raegener, 
William McCarroll and Henry W. Sackett. 

Mr. Seligman inquired concerning the purpose of the 
Fulton Memorial Committee, of which he had been in- 
vited to become a member. He expressed the hope that 
there would be unity of all organizations having a common 
end in view. 

Mr. Olcott explained that the Fulton Memorial Commit- 
tee was not the same as the Fulton Centennial Committee, 
which was appointed by the Mayor and had been merged 
in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. It was a 
voluntary Committee of citizens, of which Major-Gen. 
Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., had been temporary Presi- 
dent, and of which Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt had lately 
been elected permanent President, organized for the pur- 
pose of raising funds for a F'ulton statue. He did not 
think that it would conflict with this Commission. 

After some further remarks by Secretary Seward and 
Gen. Woodford it was voted that the meeting adjourn sub- 
ject to the call of the Chair. 



79 
Charter of the 

Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission 

Which became a Law, April, 27, 1906 

Pursuant to law a public hearing was given in the 
Mayor's Room of the City Hall by the Hon. George B. 
Mc Cleilan, Mayor of the City of New York, on Monday, 
April 23d, 1906, at 10:30 a. m., upon the bill which had 
passed the Legislature incorporating the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission. 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, the Hon. Andrew D, 
White, President J. G. Schurman of Cornell University, 
and Messrs. Isaac N. Seligman, Herman Ridder, Theodore 
Fitch, Nelson S. Spencer, Henry W. Sackett, and Edward 
Hagaman Hall appeared in favor of the bill. 

The hearing was very brief, Gen. Woodford being the 
only speaker. He said that the bill had been drafted in 
conference with Gov. Higgins, who had sent it to the 
Legislature with a special message recommending its 
enactment. Gen. Woodford asked the Mayor to sign it, 
and promised, if the Charter became a law, that the Com- 
mission would do its best to give the City and State a 
worthy commemoration. The hearing was then closed. 

Later the Mayor transmitted the bill to the Governor 
with his approval, and on April 27, Gov. Higgins signed 
it. It reads as follows : 

CHAPTER 325, LAWS OF 1906 

AN ACT 

To establish the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, and to 
prescribe the powers and duties thereof and making an ap- 
propriation therefor. 

The People of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



iJo Act of Incorporation. 

Section i. Grover Cleveland, Levi P. Morton, David 
B. Hill, Frank S. Black, Benjamin B. Odell, junior, Stew- 
art L. Woodford, Robert B. Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, 
Frederick D. Grant, Morris K. Jesup, William Rocke- 
feller, William B. Van Rensselaer, Andrew D. White, 
J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry W. Sackett, Edward Haga- 
man Hall, Herbert Adams, R. B. Aldcroft, junior, John 
G. Agar, B. Altman, Louis Annin Ames, John E. 
Andrus, James K. Apgar, John D. Archbold, John 
Jacob Astor, Theodore M. Banta, Franklin Bartlett, 
James Bayles, James M. Beck, August Belmont, 

William Berri, Cornelius M. Bliss E. W. Blooming- 
dale, Reginald Pelham Bolton, Thomas W. Bradley, 
George V. Brower, E. Parmly Brown, Henry K. Bush- 
Brown, William L. Bull, E. H. Butler, Nicholas Murray 
Builer, J. Rider Cady, J. H. Callanan, Henry W. Cannon, 
Joseph H. Choate, Caspar Purdon Clarke, George C. 
Clausen, A. T. Clearwater, Thomas Clyde, E. C. Converse, 
Walter Cook, John H. Coyne, E D. Cummings, William J. 
Curtis, Paul D. Cravath, Charles de Kay, James de la 
Montayne, Chauncey M. Depew, Edward DeWitt, William 
Draper, Charles A. DuBois, John C. Fames, George Ehret, 
Smith Ely, Arthur English, John M. Farley, J. Sloat Fas- 
sett, Barr Ferree, Stuyvesant Fish, Theodore Fitch, Win- 
chester Fitch, J. J. Fitzgerald, Thomas Powell Fowler, 
Austen G. Fox, Charles S. Francis, Henry C. Frick, Frank 
S. Gardner, Garret J. Garretson, Theodore P. Gilman 
Robert Walton Goelet, William W. Goodrich, George J. 
Gould, George F. Gregory, Henry E. Gregory, W. 
L. Guillaudeu, Abner S. Haight, Benjamin F. Hamilton, 
William S. Hawk, James A. Hearn, Peter Cooper Hewitt, 
Warren Higley, Michael H. Hirschberg, Samuel Verplanck 
Hoffman, Willis Holly, Colgate Hoyt, LeRoy Hubbard, 
Thomas H. Hubbard, T. D. Huntting, August F. Jaccaci, 
William Jay, Hugh Kelly, James H. Kennedy, John H. 
Ketcham, Horatio C. King, Albert E. Kleinert, George 
F. Kunz, John LaFarge, Charles R. Lamb, Frederick 
S. Lamb, Homer Lee, Charles W. Lefler, Julius 
Lehrenkrauss, Henry M. Leipziger, Clarence Lexow, Gus- 
tav Lindenthal, Walter Seth Logan, Charles H. Loring, 
Seth Low, William A. Marble, George E. Matthews, 



Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 8i 

William McCarroll, Donald McDonald, William J McKay 
St. Clair McKelvvav, George W. Melville, John G Mil 
burn, Frank D. Millet, A. L. Mills, Ogden Mills, C H Nie- 
haus, Ludwig Nissen, Jacob W. Miller, W. R. O'Donovan 
Eben E. Olcott, William Church Osborn, Percy B O'Sulli' 
van, Orrel A. Parker, John E. Parsons, Samuel Parsons 
junior, Samuel H. Parsons, Sereno E.Payne, George Foster 
Peabody, R. E. Peary, Bayard L. Peck, Gordon H. Peck 
Howland Pell, George W. Perkins, N. Taylor Phillips,' 
Thomas C. Piatt, George A. Plimpton, Eugene H. Porter 
Horace Porter, Henry C. Potter, Cornelius A. Pugslev' 
Louis C. Raegener, Herman Ridder, Charles F. Roe Carl 
J. Roehr, Louis T. Romaine, Thomas F. Ryan, George 
Henry Sargent, Herbert L. Satterlee, Charles A. Schermer- 
horn, Jacob Gould Schurman, Gustav H. Schwab, Isaac N 
Sehgman, Louis Seligsburg, Joseph H. Senner, Frederick 
W Seward, George F. Seward, William F. Sheehan J 
Edward Simmons, John W. Simpson, E. V. Skinner Charles 
Stewart Smith, Nelson S. Spencer, John H. Starin, Isaac 
Stern, Louis Stern, Francis Lynde Stetson, Louis Stewart 
James Stillman, Oscar S. Straus, Theodore Sutro, Henr^ 
R. Towne, Irving Townsend, Spencer Trask, C. Y Turner 
Albert Ulmann, Aaron Vanderbilt, Alfred G. Vanderbilt' 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Van Dyke, Warner Van Nor- 
den. Mistress Anson P. Atterbury, Miss A. T Van Sant- 
voord, J. Leonard Varick, E. B. Vreeland, Charles G F 
Wahle, Samuel B. Ward, W. L. Ward, William C. Warren 
Edward Wells, junior. Charles W. Wetmore, Edmund Wet- 
more, J. Du Pratt White, Fred C. Whitney. William R 
Willcox, James Grant Wilson, Charles B. Wolffram Tim- 
othy L. Woodruff, W. E. Woolley, and James A. Wright 
who were named by the Governor of the State of Nevv 
York, or by the Mayor of the City of New York, as mem- 
bers of the. Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee and 
of the Fulton Centennial Committee, and all such persons 
as are or may hereafter be associated with them, by the 
appointment of the Governor or of the said Mayor shall 
be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corpor- 
ate by the name of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, which corporation shall be a public corporation, 
with all the powers specified in the eleventh section of the 
general corporation law, except as otherwise provided by 
this act. It shall have no capital stock. 



82 Act of Incorporation 

Section 2. The object of said corporation shall be the 
public celebration or commemoration of the Ter-Centenary 
of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in 
the year sixteen hundred and nine, and of the first use of 
steam in the navigation of said river by Robert Fulton in 
the year eighteen hundred and seven, in such manner and 
form, either permanent or temporary, as may be found ap- 
propriate by said commission. 

Section 3. The said commission shall have power to 
acquire, hold and possess for the purposes of its incorpora- 
tion real or personal estate within the State of New Vork 
in fee or for a term of years or any easement therein, by 
gift, devise, bequest, grant, lease or purchase ; and in case 
such commission should be unable to agree with the own- 
ers thereof for the purchase or lease of any real estate re- 
quired for the purposes of its incorporation, it shall have 
the right to acquire the same, by condemnation, in the 
manner provided by the condemnation law, being chapter 
twenty-three of the Code of Civil Procedure ; provided, 
however, that no real property shall be acquired by con- 
demnation within the City of New York until after the ap- 
proval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of 
that city. 

Section 4. The affairs and business of said commis- 
sion shall be conducted by aboard of not less than twenty- 
five nor more than one hundred trustees, a quorum of whom 
for the transaction of business shall be fixed by the by-laws. 
The trustees for the first year shall be Grover Cleveland, 
l>evi P. Morton, David B. Hill, Frank S. Black, Benjamin 
B. Odell, junior, Stewart L. Woodford, Robert B. Roose- 
velt, Andrew Carnegie, Frederick D, Grant, Morris K. 
Jesup, William Rockefeller, William B. Van Rensselaer, 
Andrew D. While, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry W. Sackett, 
Edward Hagaman Hall, John G. Agar, James M. Beck, J. 
Rider Cady, Henry W. Cannon, Joseph H. Choate, Paul 
D. Cravath, William J. Curtis, J. Sloat Fassett, Stuyvesant 
Fish, Theodore Fitch, Thomas Powell Fowler, Charles S 
Francis, William W. Goodrich, George J. Gould, Warren 
Higley, August F. Jaccaci, William Jay, James H. Ken- 
nedy, Horatio C. King, George Frederick Kunz, John La 
Farge, Henry M. Leipsiger, Seth Low, William McCarroll, 
William J. McKay, John G. Milburn, Frank D. Millet, 



Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commlsson 83 

Ogden Mills, Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, Sereno E. 
Payne, Bayard L. Peck, N. Taylor Phillips, Eugene H. 
Porter, Horace Porter, Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C.Rae- 
gener, Herman Ridder, Jacob Gould Schurman, Isaac N. 
Seligman, Frederick W. Seward, J. Edward Simmons, 
Charles Stewart Smith, Nelson S. Spencer, Francis Lynde 
Stetson, James Stillman, Oscar S. Straus, Spencer Trask, A. 
G. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Van Dyke, 
Samuel B. Ward and James Grant Wilson. Such trustees 
shall make the by-laws of the commission providing among 
other things for the election of their successors within 
thirteen months from the passage of this act, and for the 
election of officers, as therein specified, to hold office until 
the succeeding annual election of trustees, and until their 
successors are elected, and for the filling of vacancies in any 
office. They shall continue to hold office until the suc- 
ceeding election of trustees to the number and in the man- 
ner provided by the said by-laws. 

Section 5. None of the trustees or members of said 
commission, except one or more assistants to the secretary, 
shall receive any compensation for services, nor shall any 
of them be pecuniarily interested directly or indirectly in 
any contract relating to the affairs of said commission; 
nor shall said commission make any dividend or division 
of its property among its members, managers or officers; 
nor shall any member of the commission nor any trustee 
be liable individually for any of its debts or liabilities. 

Section 6. Said commission shall annually make to 
the Legislature a statement of its affairs, and from time to 
time report to the Legislature such recommendations as 
are pertinent to the objects for which it is created, and 
may act jointly or otherwise with any persons appointed 
by any other State for purposes similar to those intended 
to be accomplished by this act. 

Section 7. Whenever the commission shall report to 
the Legislature that the purposes for which the commis- 
sion is created have been attained, and all its debts and 
obligations have been paid, its remaining real and personal 
property shall be disposed of as the Legislature may 
direct. 

Section 8. The commission shall have power to re- 
ceive subscriptions from parties who may desire to con- 
tribute to the object of the said commission. 



84 Act of Incorporation 

Section 9. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro- 
priated out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise 
appropriated, for the purposes of this act. Such money 
shall be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the com- 
troller issued upon a requisition signed by the president 
and secretary of the commission, accompanied by an esti- 
mate of the expenses for the payment of which money so 
drawn is to be applied. No indebtedness nor obligation 
shall be incurred under this act in excess of the appropria- 
tions herein or hereafter made, and such sums as may be 
provided for said commission by the City of New York for 
the purposes of this act. The commission shall, as re- 
quested by the Governor, from time to time render to him 
reports of its proceedings. 

Section 10. The City of New York may provide for 
the said commission such sums of money as the City 
shall deem expedient, and in such manner as it shall deem 
proper for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the 
commission. 

Section 11. The duration of the corporation shall be 
ten years. 

Section 12. This act shall take effect immediately. 



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Celebration Commi00ion 



Sncorporateb fap 

Cfjapter 325 of tlje lLm& of 1906 

of tije 

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i;o arrange for tfje " Commemo= 
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Minutes of Iflay 4, 1906, and By-Law§. 



86 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

May 4. 1906 

The first formal meeting of the Trustees named in the 
Charter of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 
was held in the Governors' Room oi the City Hall, New 
York, Friday, May 4, 1906, at 3 P. M. 

The Hon. William W. Goodrich called the meeting to 
order and nominated the Hon. Stewart L. Woodford as 
President /^^ tempore, and he was elected. 

Messrs. Henry W. Sackett and Edward Hagaman Hall 
were elected respectively Secretary and Assistant Secretary 
pro tempore. 

Gen. Woodford, in taking the chair, announced that on 
April 27, 1906, Gov. Higgins had signed the bill incorporat- 
ing the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission and it had 
become Chapter 325 of the Laws of 1906. A copy of this 
law, printed from a certified copy received from the Secre- 
tary of State, had been sent to each member of the Com- 
mission. From the expressions of the Governor and on 
the advice of the Committee on Legislation, it was prob- 
able that this Commission was a State Agency, and it was 
therefore in order for the members present to take the oath 
of office prescribed by the Constitution and Statutes before 
entering upon the discharge of their duties. 

The oath was thereupon subscribed in duplicate by 
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, and Messrs. Wm. J. Curtis, 
Theodore Fitch, Major-Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, Hon. Wm. 
W. Goodrich, Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, 
August F. Jaccaci, Col. William Jay, Dr. Henry M. Leip- 
ziger, Wm. McCarroll, Wm. J. McKay, Frank D. Millet, 
John E. Parsons, Bayard L. Peck, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Louis C. Raegener, Herman 
Ridder, Henry W. Sackett, Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Fred- 
erick W. Seward, Hon. Oscar S. Straus and Gen. James 
Grant Wilson. 

Messrs. Thomas Powell Fowler and Francis Lynda 
Stetson were also present. 

The form of oath taken was as follows: 



May 4, 1906 87 

HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION COMMISSION 

Oath of Office. 

I do solemnly swear (affirm) that I will support the Con- 
stitution of the United States and the Constitution of the 
State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the 
duties of the office of a member and trustee of The Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission, according to the best of 
my ability. 



Subscribed and sworn (affirmed) to before 
me this day of , 190 . 



Judge Goodrich, Chairman of the Committee ap- 
pointed for the purpose at the informal meeting of the 
Trustees named in the Charter held April 16, presented a 
draft of By-Laws (substantially as finally adopted and 
printed hereafter). 

Mr. Raegener moved that the By-Laws be adopted as 
read. 

Mr. Millet suggested that the adoption of the section 
describing the seal be postponed for further consideration. 

By unanimous consent Judge Goodrich withdrew this 
section. 

Mr. Parsons suggested that it might be advisable to 
classify the Trustees so that one-third of the original board 
should serve one year, one third two years, and one-third 
three years, and that their respective successors should be 
elected for terms of three years. 

In the discussion which followed and was participated 
in by Messrs. Higley, Parsons, Raegener and Wilson, some 
doubt arose as to the powerof the Commission or Trustees 
so to classify the Trustees, in view of the provision of Sec- 
tion 4 of the Charter, which says: " Such trustees shall 
make the By-Laws of the Commission providing among 
other things for the election of their successors within 
thirteen months from the passage of this act, and for the 
election of officers, as therein specified, to hold office until 
the succeeding annual election of Trustees, and until their 
successors are elected, and for the filling of vacancies in 



88 Minutes of Trustees. 

any office. They shall continue to hold office until the 
succeeding election of Trustees to the number and in the 
manner provided by the said By-Laws." 

Mr. Parsons, therefore, seconded the motion to adopt 
the By-Laws as read, except the section in regard to the 
seal, which had been withdrawn. 

Mr. Sackett suggested inserting in Section 2 of Article 
II of the By-Laws some words which would make it clear 
that the Trustees were to be elected by the Commission, 
and not by the Trustees themselves as is the case with 
some self-perpetuating bodies. 

Judge Goodrich moved that the following clause be 
added to the first sentence of the section : " By the per- 
sons named and designated in the first section of the Char- 
ter." Adopted. 

The By-Laws as thus amended were then adopted as a 
whole, as follows : 

BY-LAWS 

OF 

HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION COMMISSION. 

Article I. 

Section i. Office. The office and place of business 
of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission shall be 
in the City of New York, where all meetings shall be held 
unless otherwise ordered by the Trustees. 

Section 2. Trustees' Meetings. The regular meet- 
ings of the Trustees shall be held on the fourth Wednes- 
day of each month, provided, that when such date of meet- 
ing shall fall on a holiday, the meeting shall be held on 
the following day. 

Section 3. Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting 
of the members of the Commission for the election of 
Trustees and for the transaction of such other business as 
may come?! before it shall be held on the first Wednesday 
after the first Monday of May, each year, at 3 P. M, 

Section 4. Other Meetings. Other meetings of the 
Trustees or Commission may be held upon the call of the 
President, and must be called by him upon the written re- 
quest of ten Trustees. 



May 4, 1906, 89 

Section 5. Quorum. At meetings of the Trustees 
fifteen shall constitute a quorum, and at meetings of the 
Commission the members who are present shall constitute 
a quorum. 

Section 6. Notices. Notices of meetings of the Trus- 
tees shall be sent to each Trustee at least two days before 
the time of meeting. 

Article II. 

Section i. Officers. The officers of the Commission 
shall be a President, fifteen Vice-Presidents, a Secretary 
and a Treasurer, all of whom shall be Trustees, and shall 
be elected annually at the meeting of the Trustees in May 
and shall hold office for one year, and until others are 
elected in their stead. There may be one or more Assist- 
ant Secretaries who shall be appointed by and hold office 
at the pleasure of the Trustees. 

Section 2. Trustees. The number of Trustees shall 
be 100, who shall be elected annually by the persons 
named and designated in the first section of the Charter. 
The Trustees named in the Charter may appoint additional 
Trustees to hold office until the election in 1907, but the 
whole number of Trustees shall not at any time exceed 
100. 

Section 3. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of 
Trustees or Officers may be filled for the unexpired term by 
a majority vote of the Trustees present at any duly called 
meeting. When a Trustee shall have absented himself 
from three successive meetings, the Trustees may, in their 
discretion, declare the office vacant, and elect a Trustee for 
the unexpired term. 

Section 4. President. The President shall preside 
at all meetings of the Trustees and of the Commission ; he 
shall appoint all committees ; and be Chairman of the 
Executive Committee and ex-officio a member of all stand- 
ing committees except when otherwise expressly relieved 
from such service, and he shall have a general supervision 
of the affairs of the Commission. 

Section 5. Vice-Presidents. In the absence of the 
President or his inability to act, one of the Vice-Presidents, 
to be designated by him in writing, shall perform his duties 



90 Minutes of Trustees. 

and possess his powers. If he make no designation, it shall 
be made by the Trustees. 

Section 6. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall receive, 
collect and hold subject to the order of the Board of 
Trustees all moneys, securities and deeds belonging or due 
to the Commission, pay all bills when approved by the 
Trustees or the Executive Committee, deposit all money of 
the Commission in some depository to be approved by the 
Trustees, and render a report of the finances at each meet- 
ing of the Board of Trustees and at the Annual Meeting of 
the Commission. Money shall be drawn only on the check 
of the Treasurer countersigned by the President or 
Secretary. 

Section 7, Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the 
records of the Commission, of the Board of Trustees and of 
Committees, issue all notices, and perform the other duties 
ordinarily incident to that office, and when directed by the 
Trustees, affix the seal of the Commission. 

Section 8. Assistant-Secretaries. The Assistant- 
Secretaries shall perform such duties as maybe assigned to 
them. 

Article III. 

Section i. Order of Business. The order of business 
of meetings of the Commission shall be as follows, unless 
otherwise ordered: i, Roll call; 2, Reading of minutes of 
the meetings not previously read; 3, Election of Trustees; 
4, Report of Treasurer; 5, Reports of Committees; 6, Com- 
munications; 7, Miscellaneous business. 

Section 2. Reports, Resolutions and Votes. At 
meetings of the Commission and Board of Trustees reports 
and resolutions shall be in writing. The yeas and nays 
shall be called on all resolutions authorizing the expendi- 
ture of money, and on all other questions, when requested 
by one member. 

Article IV. 
Executive Committee. There shall be an Executive 
Committee which shall consist of the Officers of the Com- 
mission and twenty-five other Trustees. It shall have 
general management of the affairs of the Commission, sub- 
ject to the approval of the Trustees, and shall meet at least 



May 4, 1906. 91 

once a month. Seven of its number shall constitute a 
quorum. It shall elect one of its number as Vice-Chairman 
who shall preside in the absence of the Chairman, and who 
shall perform such other duties as may be conferred upon 
him by such Committee, not inconsistent with theseBy-Laws. 
It shall appoint such sub-committees and confer such pow- 
ers thereon as it may deem advisable. A special meeting 
of the Executive Committee must be called by the Chair- 
man upon the written request of five members, the purpose 
of such meeting to be stated in the call. 

Article V. 
Amendments. Amendments to these By-Laws may be 
proposed in writing at any meeting of the Trustees. If 25 
of the Trustees be present any amendment may be adopted 
by unanimous consent; otherwise it shall be postponed 
until a subsequent meeting, in which case the Secretary 
shall, with the notice of the next meeting, send a copy of 
the proposed amendment, stating that it will be brought 
up for action at such meeting, when it may be passed by a 
majority vote. 

The election of officers being now in order, Secretary 
Seward moved that Gen. Woodford be elected President. 

Judge Goodrich moved to amend by adding the other 
officers except Treasurer named on the first page of the 
printed minutes. 

The amendment was accepted by Secretary Seward, 
who, by common consent, put the motion. The motion 
was carried and the following officers was declared elected: 

President, 
Hon. Stewart L. Woodford. 

Vice-Presidents, 
Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, Hon Levi P. Morton, 

Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A, William B. Van Rensselaer, 
Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Secretary, 

Henry W. Sackett. 

Assistant Secretary, 

Edward Ilagaman Hall. 



92 Minutes of Trustees. 

Judge Goodrich moved that the Executive Committee 
be empowered to elect the remaining seven \'ice-Presidents 
and the Treasurer. Carried. 

Upon motion of Mr. Sackett, following an inquiry by 
Mr. Raegener, the location of the official headquarters of 
the Commission was referred to the Executive Committee 
with power. 

By unanimous consent, Gen. Grant made a brief ex- 
planation of the origin and purpose of the Fulton Memorial 
Committee, of which he was a member. The Fulton 
Memorial Committee, he said, was a Committee of citizens 
formed before the Mayor appointed the Fulton Centennial 
Committee which had been merged in the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission. Its object was to raise money 
for the erection of a monument of some kind to the memory 
of Robert Fulton. It entertained no sentiments of rivalry 
toward this Commission. If the erection of a monument 
to Fulton should form a feature of the plans of this Com- 
mission, the Fulton Memorial Committee would hope to 
cooperate with the Commission in attaining a common 
end. If the Commission should not find it practicable to 
include such a feature in its plans, then he inferred that 
there could not possibly be any conflict of interests, and the 
Fulton Memorial Committee would go aliead and erect the 
monument— or endeavor to do so — by its own efforts. He 
desired to make this frank explanation so that there might 
appear to be no inconsistency in his membership in both 
that Committee and this Commission. 

Mr. Raegener moved that the President appoint a 
committee of three to recommend a form of corporate seal 
at the next meeting, at the same time requesting that he 
be not included in the Committee. Carried. The President 
subsequently appointed as such Committee Gen, James 
Grant Wilson, Judge Wm. W. Goodrich and Col. Henry 
W. Sackett. 

The meeting then adjourned subject to the call of the 
chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



93 



Celebration Commi00ion 



Sncorporatcb bp 

Chapter 325 of tlje ICatog of 1906 

of tfje 

^tate of iSett) gorfe 



JEo arrange for tije "Commemo= 
ration of tfjc ^crCentcnarp of 
ti)t 2iis!cobcrj» of t\)t JIubsion 
3^iber hp l^enrp JIubsion in tfje 
pear 1609, anb of tfje Jfirsit 
Wiit of ^team in tfje i^abigation 
of £(aib riber f)j» i^obert Jf ulton 
in tbe pear 1807." j^ s^ aft sft 



]lliiiiite§ of may 17, 1906. 



95 

Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

May 17, 1906. 

The first meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was held in the 
Governors' Room of the City Hall, Thursday, May 17, 1906. 

Present : The Chairman, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding; and Messrs. James M. Beck, William J. Curtis, 
Theodore Fitch, Hon. William W. Goodrich, Hon. N. 
Taylor Phillips, Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick W. 
Seward, and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Regrets foi* non-attendance were received from the 
following gentlemen and they were excused: Messrs. Mor- 
ris K. Jesup, Hon. Seth Low, William McCarroll, Frank D. 
Millet, Hon Levi P. Morton, John E. Parsons, Herman 
Ridder, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, Isaac N. Seligman and 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

The Chairman announced that pursuant to the By- 
Laws, as President of the Commission, he had appointed 
twenty-three gentlemen as members of the Executive Com- 
mittee in addition to the officers. Two of them, Messrs. 
Thomas P. Fowler and Francis Lynde Stetson, and one of 
the Vice-Presidents, Mr. William Rockefeller,were unable 
to serve, making the Executive Committee at the present 
time as follows: 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

President 
Hon. Stewart L. Woodford 
Vice-Presidents 
Andrew Carnegie Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt 

Maj. Gen. F.D.Grant, U.S. A. William B. Van Rensselaer 
Morris K. Jesup Hon. Andrew D. White 

Hon. Levi P. Morton (and 8 more Vice-Presidents.) 

Treasurer 
(To be elected) 
Secretary 
Henry W. Sackett 



96 Minutes of Executive Committee 

{Executive Committee continued?^ 

James M. Beck John E. Parsons 

William J. Curtis Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Theodore Fitch Herman Ridder 

Hon. William W. Goodrich Hon. Frederick W. Seward 

Col. William Jay Isaac N. Seligman 

Dr. George F. Kunz J. Edward Simmons 

Hon. Seth Low Hon. Oscar S. Straus 

John LaFarge Spencer Trask 

William McCarroll Dr. Samuel B. Ward 

Frank D. Millet Gen. James Grant Wilson 

Eben E. Olcott (and 4 to be appointed.) 

Gen. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Seal, 
reported that Tiffany & Co. had submitted three designs, 
one of which the Committee had approved and recom- 
mended for adoption. A small drawing of the design was 
submitted to the members for examination. It was circular 
in form and about two inches in diameter. It represented 
in the foreground a classical, draped female figure standing 
on the prow of a boat, supporting under her right hand a 
shield bearing the name and date, "Henry Hudson, 1609," 
and under her left hand a similar shield bearing the name 
and date, "Robert Fulton, 1807"; in the middle back- 
ground, the Hudson River, and upon it, above the respec- 
tive shields, the vessels Half Moon and Clermont ; in the 
background the Palisades; and in the border surrounding 
all, the words and date, " Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, 1906." 

Judge Goodrich moved the adoption of the seal. 
Carried. 

Judge Goodrich moved that $50 be appropriated for 
the making of the seal, including the press. Carried. 

Gen. Woodford reported that on Friday, May nth, he 
had applied to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of 
the City of New York, through Deputy Comptroller 
Phillips, Secretary of the Commission, to lease an office 
for the use of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission ; 
and that the Sinking Fund Commissioners had considered 
the request on Wednesday, the i6th. He asked Mr. 
Phillips to report the result, 



May 17, 1906. 97 

Mr. Phillips stated that the application had been ap- 
proved by the Comptroller and the Real Estate Division 
of the Finance Department, but that the Sinking Fund 
Commission had laid it over until the next meeting for 
action. 

The following communications were laid before the 
Committee by the Chairman : 

Communication dated May 3, 1906, from Mr. John R- 
Van Wormer, chairman of the " Citizens Committee for a 
Permanent International Exposition in 1909," asking the 
Commission to allow that Committee as much time as 
possible to perfect its plans before deciding upon tlie 
question of an Exposition. 

Communication dated May 15, 1906, from Mr. J. Du- 
Pratt White, Secretary of the Commissioners of the Pali- 
sades Interstate Park, inviting the members of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission to attend, upon a date to 
be arranged, an exhibition of the plans of the Palisades 
Commission with a view to the completion and dedication 
of the Park in 1909. 

Communications from several gentlemen recommend- 
ing the appointment of Arthur English, Esq., as Counsel of 
the Commission. 

The following were laid before the Committee by the 
Secretary : 

Communication dated April 26, 1906, from Mr. Regi- 
nald P. Bolton, Secretary of the Washington Heights Tax- 
payers Association, communicating resolutions urging this 
Commission to secure the preservation of the natural 
beauties of Inwood Hill in a public park, in connection 
with the proposed Hudson Memorial Bridge over Spuyten 
Diiyvil Creek. 

Communication dated March 7, 1906, from Mr. George 
R. Schieffelin, Domestic Corresponding Secretary of the 
New York Historical Society, communicating copy of a 
memorial by that Society, addressed to Governor Higgins 
and Mayor McClellan, recalling the Society's celebration 
of the bicentennial of Hudson's voyage ; the decision of 
the Society on February 7, 1905, to take steps looking to 
the celebration of the tri-centennial ; the reasons why their 
plans were not perfected before the appointment of this 
Commission, and tendering their cordial co-operation in 
the present movement. 



98 Minutes of Executive Committee 

A communication dated April 11, 1906, from Mr. 
William Walton, Secretary of the Municipal Art Society of 
New York, offering to cooperate with this Commission, as 
it did with the Pan-American Exposition Commission, in 
securing the design for the official poster, etc., of the Com- 
mission by a competition among artists. 

Also communications from Prof. John C. Smock, of 
Trenton, N. J., and Mr. Charles Smith, of Lewisburgh, 
Pa., offering suggestions concerning the form of celebration. 

The communications of Messrs. Smock and Smith 
were referred to the Committee on Plan and Scope when 
appointed, and the others were ordered on file. 

The Secretary announced that on May i6th the Mayor 
had appointed Mr. Frederick S. Flower, of No. 45 Broad- 
way, New York, a member of the Commission. 

Judge Goodrich moved that three standing sub-com- 
mittees of the Executive Committee be appointed, namely : 

A Committee on Law, consisting of six appointed 
members, to which may be referred any motion or ques- 
tion relating to the powers and duties of the Commission, 
of the Trustees, and of the Officers ; 

A Committee on Nominations, consisting of four ap- 
pointed members, to which shall be referred all nomina- 
tions for members of the Commission and to fill vacancies 
in the Board of Trustees and in the offices of the Com- 
mission; and 

A Committee on Plan and Scope, consisting of ten ap- 
pointed members, to which shall be referred all suggestions 
and motions relating to the plan ind scope of the pro- 
posed Celebration. 

The motion was carried. 

Later, the President appointed the following: 
Committee on Law. 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Theodore Fitch 

Chairman. Col. William Jay 

James M. Beck John E. Parsons 

William J. Curtis 

Committee on Nominations. 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman. Henry W. Sackett 
William J. Curtis J. Edward Simmons 



May 17, 1906. 99 

Committee on Plan and Scope. 

Hon. F. W. Seward, Chair- Hon. Seth Low 

man. William McCarroll 

James M. Beck Eben E. Olcott 

Hon. William W. Goodrich John E. Parsons 
Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant Dr. Samuel B. Ward 

Dr. George F. Kunz 

In announcing the latter committee, the Chairman 
gave briefly his reasons for each selection. He appointed 
Secretary Seward, of Montrose, because he lived in the 
lower Hudson Valley, near Verplanck's Point, possessed 
the local knowledge and balanced judgment requisite for a 
judicial. consideration of the proposed Verplanck's Point 
Exposition, and had a name than which no other would be 
more acceptable throughout the State. Mr. Beck was chair- 
man of the committee which had called upon the President 
of the United States, the Governor of the State and the 
Mayor of the City of New York in the preliminary arrange- 
ments. Judge Goodrich, formerly Presiding Justice of the 
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, was Chairman of 
the Committee on Law. Gen. Grant was Chairman of the 
Fulton Memorial Committee, and was in a position to pro- 
mote friendly cooperation. Dr. Kunz, the celebrated min- 
eralogist of Tiffany & Co., had had a large experience with 
European expositions and could judge of the propriety and 
advisability of one in the present case. Dr. Low, formerly 
Mayor of New York and President of Columbia University, 
combined a familiarity with city affairs and conservative 
judgment which would be of great value. Mr. McCarroll 
had been Chairman of the Fulton Centennial Committee, 
now merged in this Commission. Mr. Olcott had been the 
animating spirit in the movement for the building of the 
Hudson Memorial Bridge. Mr. Parsons was one of the 
leaders of the bar ; and Dr. Ward, of Albany, had been a 
commissioner from the State of New York to the Lewis 
and Clark Exposition, and represented the headwaters of 
the Hudson River. In the good judgment and fair-mind- 
edness of all the gentleman named, the Chairman expressed 
implicit confidence. 

The Chairman nominated the following named persons 
for appointment to this Commission : 



lOO Minutes of Executive Committee 

For appointment by the Governor : Messrs. Thomas R. 
Proctor, of Utica, and Charles R. Wilson, of Buffalo. 

For appointment by the Mayor: Catherine A. B. Abbe 
(Mrs. Robert Abbe), of New York, President of the City 
History Club ; Mrs. Archibald A. Anderson, donor of Mil- 
bank Hall, Barnard College ; Miss Laura D. Gill, Dean of 
Barnard College ; Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, descendant of the 
first white child born in Greater New York ; Hon. David 
A. Boody, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn and President of the 
Public Libraries of Brooklyn; Mr. Robert Fulton Cutting, 
President of the New York Trade School, etc.; Mr. George 
G. DeWitt, trustee of Columbia University and descendant 
of the DeWitts of Holland; Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 
ex-Governor of Connecticut, now residing in New York ; 
Mr. William Muschenheim, proprietor of Hotel Astor, 
specially recommended by Hon. Oscar S. Straus, and Mr. 
James Speyer, founder of " the Theodore Roosevelt Pro- 
fessorship of American History and Institutions in the 
University of Berlin," Trustee of Teachers' College of New 
York, etc. 

The nominations were referred to the Committee on 
Nominations. 

The Chairman also nominated for Trustees to fill exist- 
ing vacancies the following gentlemen : Mr. William Berri, 
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Mr. George V. Brower, Sir 
Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. John C. Fames, Mr. Stuyvesant 
Fish, Mr. William S. Hawk, Mr. James A. Hearn, Gen. 
Thomas H. Hubbard, Rear Admiral Geo. W. Melville, 
U. S. N., retired; Mr. Jacob W. Miller, Mr. Ludwig Nissen, 
Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, Mr. Ed- 
mund Wetmore, and Hon. William R. Willcox. 

The nominations were referred to the Committee on 
Nominations. 

Gen. Wilson nominated for appointment on the Com- 
mission Mr. William A. Stone of Westchester County, the 
historian. Referred to the Committee on Nominations. 

The meeting then adjourned until Wednesday, May 
23rd, 1906, at 3 p. m. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary 



Celebration Commi00ion 



HJncoiporattb bp 

Cfjaptfr 325 of tfjc llatus of 1906 

of tfje 

^tate of Mt\3} gorfe 



2ro arrange for tljc "Commcmo= 
ration of tijc CcrCentcnarP of 
tJjc Bisicoljcrp of tije i^ubson 
3^iber l)p ?^enrp ^ubson in tije 
pear 1600, anb of tije Jfirst 
Wisit of ^team in tlje i^abigation 
of gaib riber bp ixobert Jf niton 
in tbe pear 1807." s^ s^ sS s^ 



]fliiiiitef<i of may 23, 1906. 



I02 



l^ubgon Jfulton Celebration Commiggion. 



Herbert Adams. 
John G. A^ar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon James K. Apgar. 
Col. John lacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballon. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Co/. Franklin Bartlett. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
George l^. BroTver. 
Dr. E. Parnily Brown. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush- Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. /. Rider Cady. 

lohn "F. Calder. 
Hon. J H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
Andrew Cam gie. 
Hun. Joseph H. Choatc. 
Sir Caspar Purdon Cla'kc. 
Hon. George C. Cl.uiseu. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 

E. C. Converse. 

Walter Cook. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

E. D. Cummings. 

iVilliain J. Curtis. 

Paul D. Cravath. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fasseit. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyvesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Filch. 

Hon. J. f. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fo.\. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Hon. William W. Goodrich- 
George J. Gould. 



M.ij.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner .S. Haight. 
Edward HagamanHall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
William S. Hawk. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Higley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I 'crplanckHo(J)nan 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Ge7i. Thoiiias //. Hubbard. 
T. D. Iluntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay. 
Morris K. Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Ho- alio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Hr. George F. Kunz 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W.- Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M . Lcipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Le.xow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindent'ial. 
Walter Seth Logan. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
William A. Marble. 
Gecrge E. Matthews. 
William McCarroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W Miller. 
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J . Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham IVIorris. 
Hon. Le7'i P. Morton. 
C. H.Niehaus. 
Ludivig Nissen 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
Wdliam Church O.-iborn. 
Percy B. O'Suilivan. 
Orrel .A. Parker. 
lohn E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr R. E. Peary. 
Bay a rd L . Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
George W. Perkins. 
TNames of Trustees in italics. 



Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
George .\. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley. 
Louis C. Raegener. 
Herman Ridder. 
William Rockefeller. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Herbert L. Sa*terlec. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schurman. 
Gustav H. Schwab. 
Isaac N . Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. E'reeierick W. Seward, 
Hon. W lliam F. Sheehan. 
/. Edivard Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E V. Skinner. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
Hon. John H. Starin. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stilhnan. 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
SJencer Trask. 
C V. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
.■\aron I'anderbilt 
Alfred G. I'anderbilt. 
Cornelius I'anderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry I 'an Dyke. 
Wainer Van Norden. 
Wm. B. I'an Rensselaer. 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
J Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Hon. Chailes G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon W. L. Ward. 
Hon. William C. Warren. . 
Edward Wells, Ji. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Wi/lco.v. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Steiua rt L . Wood/or d. 
Hon Timothy L. Woodritjf. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 

] 



io3 



(Officers anb Committees!. 

(Revised to May 25, igo6.) 



Presiderit: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents: 
Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choale, Hon. Levi I'. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Herman Ridder, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rens'selaer, 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer : 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Committee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Vice-Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 

James M. Beck, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Andrew Carnegie, Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate. John E. Parsons, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

William J. Curtis, Herman Ridder, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Henry W. Sackett. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Col. William Jay, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Morris K. Jesup, J. Edward Simmons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Spencer Trask, 

John La Farge, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Frank D. Millet, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

(and 7 to be appointed). 
Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, William McCarroll, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Seth Low, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Law: 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, ^.r-t'/^r/t>. 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway,' New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons. 

Henry W. Sackett, The President ex-officio. 



Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

May 23, 1906 

The second meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 
was held in the Governors' Room of the Cit}' Hall, New 
York City, Wednesday, May 23, 1906, at 3 p. m. 

Present : The Chairnian, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford* 
presiding; and Messrs. Wm. J. Curtis, Theo. Fitch, Hon. 
Wm, W. Goodrich, Col. Wm. Jay, Dr. Geo. F. Kunz, Wm. 
McCarroU, Frank D. Millet, Eben E. Olcott, John E. Par- 
sons, Henry W. Sackett, Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Oscar 
S. Straus and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Gen. 
Frederick D. Grant, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Seth 
Low, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Dr. Samuel B. Ward and 
Hon. Andrew D. White, and they were excused. 

The minutes of the meeting of May 17, 1906, having 
been printed and sent to all the members, were approved. 

Mr. Fitch, chairman of the Commitee on Nominations, 
presented the following report : 

Report of Committee on JVominoiions. 

"To the Executive Committee of the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration Commission : 

"The Committee on Nominations hereby nominates 
and recommends the election of the following officers of 
the Commission to fill vacanies, to wit : 

"For Vice-Presidents: Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. 
Horace Porter, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. J. Pierpont 
Morgan, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Hon. Seth Low, Hon. 
William W. Goodrich, and Mr. Herman Ridder. 

" For Treasurer: Mr. Isaac N. Seligman. 

" For Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee • 
Hon. William W. Goodrich. 

"And for Trustees of the Commission, to fill vacancies, 
to wit : Mr. William Berri, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. 
John C. Eames, Mr. William S. Hawk, Gen. Thomas H. 
Hubbard, Rear Admiral George W. Melville, U. S. N., Mr. 
Jacob W. Miller, Mr. Ludwig Nissen, Mr. Herbert L. Satter- 



May 23, 1906. 105 

lee, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, Mr. Edmund VVetmore, Hon. 
William R. Willcox, Mr. George V. Brower, Col. Franklin 
Bartlett, Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, and Mr. Thomas F. 
Ryan. 

"The Committee on Nominations also nominates and 
recommends for additional members of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission the following : 

"To be appointed by the Governor : Mr. Thomas R. 
Proctor of Utica, Mr. Charles R. Wilson of Buffalo, Mr. 
William L. Stone of Westchester County, Rear Admiral 
Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Col. 
John W. Vrooman, of Herkimer and New York, and Hon. 
Theodore H. Silkman of Yonkers ; 

"And to be appointed by the Mayor: Mrs. Robert Abbe, 
Mrs. Archibald A. Anderson, Miss Laura D. Gill, Mr. 
Teunis G. Bergen, Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. Robert 
Fulton Cutting, Mr. George G. DeWitt, Hon. Phineas C. 
Lounsbury, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. James 
Speyer, and Mr. George A. Hearn, all of the City of New 
York. 

" Respectfully submitted, 

Theodore Fitch, ^ 

Henry W. Sackett, [^ Committee 

W.J.Curtis, [ on Nominations. 

Stewart L, Woodford J 

" Dated, May 23, 1906. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the report be received and 
adopted, and that the nominations be recommended to the 
Board of Trustees. Carried. 

Mr. Fitch moved that tlie Secretary be instructed to 
cast a single ballot in behalf of the Executive Committee 
for the Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, to be Vice-Chairman of 
the Executive Committee. Carried. 

The Secretary cast the ballot as directed, and Judge 
Goodrich was declared elected Vice Chairman. 

Gen. Wilson moved that the design of the seal adopted 
at the last meeting be amended by inserting the words 
"Seal of" before the title of the Commission, placing the 
date "1909" upon the prow of the boat in the foreground, 
and changing the triangular jib of the Half Moon to the 



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" sprit-sail " of the period. Carried, and the changes were 
recommended to the Board of Trustees. 

Judge Goodrich, Chairman of the Committee on Law, 
presented a written description of the seal, and moved that 
it be recommended to the Trustees for adoption as Article 
V of the By laws. Carried. 

The Secretary stated that when an appropriation was 
voted at the last meeting for the cutting of the seal, the 
letter of Tiffany and Co. containing estimates was not at 
hand, and the amount was erroneously stated at $50, when 
it should have been $75, including the press. He therefore 
moved that the amount appropriated for the seal and press 
be $75. Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned subject to the call of the 
chair. 



Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

May 23, 1906 

The second meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held in the Governors' 
Room of the City Hall, New York City, Wednesday, May 
23, 1906, at 3.30 p.m. 

Present : The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding ; and Messrs. Henry W. Cannon, Wm. J. Curtis, 
Theodore Fitch, Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Edward Haga- 
man Hall, August F. Jaccaci, Col. Wm. Jay, Dr. George 
F. Kunz, William McCarroll, Wm. J. McKay, Frank D. 
Millet, Eben E. Olcott, John E. Parsons, Hon. C. A. Pugs- 
ley, Henry W. .Sackett, Isaac N. Seligman, Nelson S. 
Spencer, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, and Gen. James Grant 
Wilson. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Gen. 
Fredk. D. Grant, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Morris, K. 
Jesup, Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Louis T. Raegener, Hon. 
Frederick W. Seward, President Jacob Gould Schurman 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward and Hon. Andrew D. White, and 
they were excused. 

The minutes of the meeting of May 4, having been 
printed and sent to all the members, were approved. 



May 23, 1906. 107 

A report of the proceedings of the Executive Com- 
mittee, as above recorded, was made by the Secretary. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the Secretary be instructed to 
cast a single ballot in behalf of the Board of Trustees for 
the Vice-Presidents recommended by the Executive Com- 
mittee. Cairied. 

The Secretary cast a ballot as directed, and the fol- 
lowing gentlemen were declared elected Vice-Presidents 
in addition to those elected May 4 : 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. William W. Goodrich, Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

Mr. Fitch made a similar motion in regard to the 
nomination of Mr. Isaac N. Seligman for Treasurer, and it 
having been carried and the ballot cast, Mr. Seligman was 
declared elected Treasurer. 

In like manner the following gentlemen were elected 
Trustees, in addition to those named in the Charter. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett, Mr. Jacob W. Miller, 

Mr. William Berri, Mr. Ludwig Nissen, 

Mr. George V. Brower, Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, 

Mr. John C. Fames, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Mr. William S-. Hawk, Mr. Edmund Wetmore, 

Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, Hon. William R. Willcox, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 

It was voted that the persons nominated by the Ex- 
ecutive Committee for appointment as members of the 
Commission be favorably recommended to the Governor 
and Mayor. Carried. 

Judge Goodrich moved to amend the Bylaws by 
changing the number of the present Article V to Article 
VI and that the following be adopted : 

ARTICLE V 

Seal. The seal of the Commission shall be circular 
in form, two and one-fourth inches in diameter. Its design 
shall be as follows : In the foreground, a classical, draped, 
female figure, symbolizing the genius of the Hudson 
River, standing upon the prow of a boat, supporting under 



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her right hand a shield bearing the name and date "Henry 
Hudson, 1609," and under lier left hand a similar shield 
bearing the name and date "Robert Fulton, 1807" ; upon 
the prow of the boat the date " 1909 " ; in the middle dis- 
tance the Hudson River, and upon it, above the respective 
shields, Hudson's ship, the Half Moon, and Fulton's steam- 
boat, the Clermont; in the background, the Palisades; and 
in the border surrounding the whole, the words and date : 
"Seal of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 1906." 

The motion was seconded, and, under the By-laws, 
laid over until the next meeting, with instructions to the 
Secretary to send a copy of the proposed By-law to each 
Trustee with the call for the next meeting. 

Upon motion of the Secretary it was voted, none dis- 
senting, that $75 be appropriated for the official seal and 
press. 

Mr. Fitch moved, to cover a technicality of the 
Charter, that all action of the Executive Committee here- 
tofore reported be approved. Carried. 

Dr. Kunz proposed Mr. Edward C. Wilson, a prom- 
inent citizen of Peekskill, N. Y., and Prof. John C. 
Smock, of Hudson, N. Y., for many years State Geologist 
of New Jersey, for nomination to the Governor for ap- 
pointment on the Commission. Referred to the Com- 
mittee on Nominations. 

The Secretary asked if the Trustees should not do 
sometliing at this meeting to set in motion the procedure 
for determining the form of the celebration. 

Gen. Wilson stated that he had seen Secretary Seward, 
Chairman of the Committee on Plan and Scope, within a 
few days, and that Mr. Seward had made preparations for 
the immediate consideration by his Committee of the 
salient features of the celebration. 

The Assistant Secretary stated that a telegram had just 
been received from Mr. Seward explaining that he was de- 
tained from this meeting by illness. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Cfjapter 325 of tfje ICatoS of 1906 

of tfje 

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tHo arrange for tfje " Commemo= 
ration of tfjc tlTtrCentcnarp of 
tf)c Bis^cofacrp of tf)c J^ubsion 
i^ibcr hp ^tmp l^ubsfon in tfjc 
j>car 1609, anb of tf)c jFirSt 
tHsie of ^tcam in tfje i^afaigation 
of siaib rifaer bp 3^obert Jf ulton 
in tije pear 1807." s^ s^ s^ £^ 



miiuitcs of June 13, 1906. 



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llutiSonjFuUon Celebration Commiggion. 



Herbert Adams. 

J oh n G. A ^a r. 

R. B. Aldcrofit, Jr. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon James K. Apgar. 

Col. John lacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbiiry. 

Geo. Wm. Ballon 

Theodore M. Eanta. 

Col. Franklin Bartleit. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

Jatnes M . Beck. 

August Belmont. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. M'illiani Herri. 

Hon. Frank S. B/ack. 

Reginald ^'elham Bolton. 

Hon. David A. Boody. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 

George I '. Broiver. 

Dr. E. Family Brown. 

William L. Bull. 

Henry K. Bush- Brown. 

Hon. E. H. Butler. 

Hon. J. Rider Cady. 

John F. Calder. 

Hon. J H. Callanan. 

Henry IV. Cannon. 

Andreiu Cam gie. 

Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 

Sir Caspar Pur don Clarke. 

Hon. George C. Cl.iusen. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 

Hon. Grover Cleveland. 

E. C. Converse. 

Walter Ccok. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

E. D. Cummings. 

William J. Ctirtis. 

Paul D. Cravaih. 

Robt. Fulton Cutting. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G.DeWitt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyvesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Filch. 

Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Phomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Henr>' C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Hon. William W. Goodrich. 



George J. Gould. 
M.iJ.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregory'. 
Henrj- E. Gregory. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Fdivard Hngavian Hall. 
Benjamin F'. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 
lames .\. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warreti Higley. 
Hon. David B. Hilt. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I'erfila nek Ho ff'man 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 
T. D. (luntting. 
A ugusi F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay . 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kunz 
Tohn LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenttial. 
Walter Seth Logan. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. I.ounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
William A. Marble. 
Gecrge E. Matthews. 
William McCarroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milbu7-n. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob II' Miller. 
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Alorton. 
Wm. C. Muschenheim. 
C. H.Niehaus. 
Ludwig Nissen. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Suilivan. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
fohn E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
[Names of Trustees in italics.] 



George W. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
George A. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henrj- C. Potter. 
Hon. Cornelius A . Pugsley. 
Louts C. Raegener. 
Herman Ridder. 
William Rockejeller. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Herbert L. Sailer lee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G. Sch u rma n . 
Gustav H. Schwab. 
Isaac iV. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. (oseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Frederick W. Se^vard. 
Hon. W lliam F. Sheehan. 
J. Edward Sifntnons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E V. Skinner. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer. 
Hon. John H. Starin. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. I'heodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C Y. Turner. 
Albeit Ulmann. 
A a ron I 'a nderbilt 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Co7-nelius J'anderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry 1 'an Dyke. 
-Wainer Van Norden. 
Wm. B. I 'an Rensselaer. 
Miss A. T. Van ?antvoord. 
J Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon W. L. Ward. 
Hon. William C. Warren. 
Ed«-ard Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Weimore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Willcox. 
Gen. fames Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon Timothy L. Woodruff. 
W E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 



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0llittvii anil Committees. 

(Revised to June 13, igc6.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

I ^ice- Presidents : 
Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Herman Ridder, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Andrew D. While. 

Treasurer : 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Committee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Vice-Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 

James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Andrew Carnegie, John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate. Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 

William J. Curtis, Herman Ridder, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Henry W. Sackett, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Col. William Jay, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Morris K. Jesup, J. Edward Simmons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Spencer Trask, 

John La Farge, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

William McCarroll, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Frank D. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

(and 3 to be appointed). 
Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck. William McCarroll, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Seth Low, The President, ex-officio. 

Commiltce on Law: 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The Vrts\A&x\\., ex-officio. 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 



112 

Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

June 13, 1906. 

The third meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission was held in the Tribune Building, New York City 
Wednesday, June 13, 1905, at 3 P. M. 

Present : — The Chairman, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding ; and Mr. Theodore Fitch, Hon. Wm. W. Good- 
rich, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Mr. Louis T. Raegener, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
Hon. Fredk. W. Seward, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman and Gen. 
James Grant Wilson. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Mr. 
James M. Beck, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Wm. J. 
Curtis, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Mr. Spencer Trask, Mr. Aaron 
Vanderbilt, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Hon. Andrew D. White 
and Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, and they were excused. 

The minutes of the previous meeting, having been 
printed and sent to all the members, were adopted. 

The Chairman announced that as President he had ap- 
pointed Mr. Jacob W. Miller, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, Mr. 
Aaron Vanderbilt and Hon. Wm. R. W^illcox, to fill four 
vacancies in the Executive Committee. 

The Secretary reported that on June 5 the Mayor of 
New York, upon recommendation of this Commission, had 
appointed the following named gentlemen as members of 
the Commission : 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. Phineas C. Lounsburv. 

Hon. David A. Boody, M.r. Wm. C. Muschenheim, 

Mr. Rob't Fulton Cutting, Mr. James Speyer, 
Mr. Geo. G. De Witt, Mr. George A. Hearn. 

In regard to the three ladies recommended by the 
Commission, the Mayor's Secretary wrote: "His Honor 
some time ago declined to appoint to the Commission a 
number of ladies who made application, on the ground 
that it was to be made up of men only. Having estab- 
lished this precedent, the Mayor does not see his way clear 
to make these appointments." 



Jane 13. 1906. 1 13 

The Committee on Nominations, through Mr. Fitch, 
Chairman, nominated and recommended the election of the 
following gentlemen as Trustees of the Commission, to fill 
vacancies : Rear Admiral J. B. Coghlan, Mr. George A. 
Hearn, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Hon. John H. Starin, Col. 
John W. Vrooman. 

The Committee on Nominations also nominated and 
recommended for appointment to the Commission by th^ 
Governor: The Hon. M. Linn Bruce of New York, 
Lieutenant Governor ; Hon Warner Miller of Herkimer, 
Mr. Edward C. Wilson of Peekskill, and Prof. John C. 
Smock of Hudson ; and for appointment by the Mayor : 
The Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

The report of the Committee on Nominations was 
adopted. 

The same Committee reported unfavorably upon the 
letters recommending the appointment of Mr. Arthur 
English as Counsel of the Commission, on the ground that 
the necessity for such counsel does not now appear to 
exist, and, until the necessity arises, such an appointment 
would involve an unjustifiable expense ; that the Bylaws 
make no provision for a General Counsel as an officer of 
the Commission, whatever may be the power of the 
Trustees or Executive Committee to employ special coun- 
sel if their services were necessary ; and that as Mr. 
English is a member of the Commission, he could not, 
under the charter, receive compensation for his services as 
counsel. 

The report was adopted. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the Committee on Plan and 
Scope, presented the unanimous report of the Committee. 
(The report is printed in full on the following pages, with 
the exception of a single paragraph which was stricken out 
and to which reference is made hereafter.) 

Judge Goodrich presented a communication from Mr. 
J. Du Pratt White, Secretary of the Palisades Interstate 
Park Commission, suggesting that the report of the Com- 
mittee on Plan and Scope recommend that the Governorof 
New York State be requested, if he shall so approve, to 
invite the Governor of New Jersey to nominate citizens of 
that State for appointment as additional members of the 



114 Minutes of Executive Committee 

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, and moved that 
it be embodied in the report. 

Dr. Kunz, speaking as one of those who had had some- 
thing to do with the creation of the Palisades Commission 
in 1899-1900, said that many people would like to know 
what progress the Palisades Commission had made during 
the six years since its creation. He suggested that the 
Palisades Commission be urged strongly to complete the 
park by 1909. 

Judge Goodrich said that Mr. White's letter stated 
that the Palisades Commission was preparing to make an 
exhibition of its plans in the near future — the first 
opportunity that has been offered to the public to examine 
the plans of the Palisades Park — and that the members of 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission would be 
invited thereto. 

Some general discussion of the subject ensued, in 
which attention was called to the fact that the report of 
the Plan and Scope Committee recommended that the 
various sections of the report be referred to sub-committees 
for further consideration as to details, and that this matter 
would naturally be considered by the sub-committee on 
section 3 of the report, in which reference is made to the 
Palisades. 

Judge Goodrich, therefore, withdrew his motion, and 
Mr. Seward moved that Mr. White's letter be received and 
referred to the sub-committee on section 3, if the sub- 
committees recommended were authorized by the Trustees. 
Carried. 

Mr. Fitch inquired who would assume the financial 
responsibility for Invvood Park, recommended in section 
4 of the report. 

Mr. Seligman thought that the State might help on 
this park. 

Mr. Sackett suggested that the report be amended so 
as to make it clear that it was intended to recommend 
that the City of New York create the park. 

Mr. Phillips, Deputy Controller of the city, said that in 
view of the demands for parks in other parts of the city, he 
was not very sanguine as to the favorable action of the Board 
of Estimate and Apportionment on this recommendation. 



June 13, 1906. 1 15 

It was finally decided to leave this portion of the report 
unaltered. 

Discussion then ensued upon the following paragraph, 
being the last paragraph of section 5 of the original report: 

" In regard to what is commonly understood by the 
term ' World's Fair,' your committee believes that the 
country has been surfeited with such temporary celebra- 
tions; and it entertains the hope that the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration in 1909, conducted on the plans above outlined 
and leaving monumental works of lasting benefit to the 
people of the present and future generations, will be not 
less acceptable as a national commemoration." 

Some of the members thought that the paragraph im- 
plied that the Commission did not favor a permanent expo- 
sition if one should be practicable. 

Mr. Fitch said that he presumed no member of the 
Commission would dissent from the paragraph as far as it 
went ; that there appeared to be a unanimous sentiment 
against a temporary " World's Fair," but he thought that 
the converse of the proposition should also be stated by a 
declaration in favor of a permanent exposition. He there- 
fore moved the following resolution: 

'^ J^eso/7>ed, that the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, while opposed to a temporary World's Fair as an 
adjunct to the Tercentary, favors a permanent Exposition 
at Verplanck's Point, provided, however, that the plans 
theretor, including the securing of the necessar}' amount 
of money, to be hereafter submitted by the persons 
interested, shall be satisfactory to the Trustees of the Com- 
mission, that the Commission shall not be required to pro- 
vide any funds therefor, or to undertake the establishment 
or management of such permanent Exposition, and shall 
not incur any liability therefor." 

The Chairman ruled the resolution out of order on the 
ground that it was not in the form of an amendment to 
the report which was under consideration. 

Mr. Raegener thought that the paragraph would dis- 
courage a permanent exposition, and that the report should 
either favor such an exposition affirmatively or omit the 
paragraph altogether. He, therefore, moved that it be 
omitted. 

After some further discussion Mr. Seward accepted Mr. 
Raegener's suggestion in behalf of his Committee and 
seconded the motion, which was carried. 



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With this single change, the report was unanimously 
adopted and ordered to be favorably reported to the Board 
of Trustees at its next meeting, to be held in room 605, 
Tribune Building, New York, on Wednesday, June 27, 
1906, at 3 P. M. 

The report, as adopted, is printed on the following 
pages. 

The meeting then adjourned subject to the call of the 
Chair. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary, 



June 13, 1906 1 17 

PRELIMINARY REPORT 

OF THE 

PLAN AND SCOPE COMMITTEE. 



To the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission : 

Your Committee on Plan and Scope, having considered 
the various suggestions offered as to the form of the cele- 
bration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's explor- 
ation of the river which bears his name, and the looth 
anniversary of the first successful navigation of that river 
by steam by Robert Fulton, respectfully make the follow- 
ing recommendations : 

1. Naval Parade. 

As both of the events to be commemorated were of a 
nautical character it seems appropriate, first of all, that 
there should be a demonstration in the form of a naval 
festival upon the river itself. In this aquatic pageant we 
recommend that the navies of the United States and foreign 
nations, particularly the Netherlands and Great Britain, be 
invited to participate ; also the American merchant marine, 
excursion boats and yacht clubs contiguous to New York 
Harbor and the Hudson River. We believe that a certain 
number of sail craft can participate, by the aid of their own 
auxiliary engines or tugboats, and thus add both to the 
picturesqueness and educational value of the parade, which 
should exhibit, as far as practicable, the principal types of 
river and sea-going craft. 

We recommend that this naval procession include fac- 
simile reproductions of the Half Moon and the Clermont, the 
former to be equipped with an auxiliary motor. We recom- 
mend that the government of the Netherlands be invited to 
send the model of the Half Moon and that American steam- 
boat interests be invited to contribute the model of the 
Clermont. 

On account of the deep draft of the larger vessels, it 
will be impossible, of course, for the whole pageant to pro- 
ceed farther than Haverstraw Bay. Haverstraw Bay is 
the widest part of the river, being five miles broad, and 



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would form the safest turning point for such vessels as 
cannot proceed beyond Stony and Verplanck's Points, 
which form the northern boundary of that bay. These 
vessels can return and anchor opposite Manhattan Island 
and in the evening illuminate and display fireworks. 

We recommend that the Half Moon and Clermont, 
escorted by two official vessels representing the city and 
state of New York, and by as many other craft as may vol- 
unteer, proceed up the river to Albany, stopping opposite 
the riverside villages and cities and forming the center of 
local demonstrations. This will permit not only the popu- 
lation bordering the historic river, but also our fellow citi- 
zens residing in the adjacent inland towns, to participate in 
the commemoration. 

2. Land Parade and Literary Exercises. 

Upon the second day we recommend that there be a 
land parade and literary exercises. 

The parade may properly embrace such troops from 
Governor's Island and adjacent posts and such marines 
from the war vessels as the Government may be disposed 
to send ; the Grand Army Posts, patriotic and historical 
societies and the crafts or guilds of the city. In a city sit- 
uated as New York is situated, there is scarcely any indus- 
try that does not derive some benefit from or bear some 
relation to the commerce of the river; and the representa- 
tives of the industrial world, to which the metropolis owes so 
much of its greatness, will undoubtedly take pride in joining 
in this celebration. If, upon further inquiry, it be found that 
the participating organizations are disposed to prepare his- 
torical floats for this parade, we believe that they would great- 
ly add to its instructiveness. Three miles of the route of the 
parade would naturally be along Riverside Drive, from 
72nd street to Claremont, overlooking the river. 

On the evening of this da}', we recommend that liter- 
ary, historical and musical exercises be held in the princi- 
pal auditorium available in each of the five boroughs, and 
that the Board of Education be requested to provide for 
the people free lectures in as many lecture centers as pos- 
sible, upon subjects relating to the events commemorated. 
Upon some other convenient day of the week, to be deter- 
mined by the Board of Education, we recommend that the 



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pupils of the public schools devote themselves to appro- 
priate exercises. 

o. Dedication of Memorials. 

We recommend that a third day be devoted to the 
dedication of memorials. 

The Hudson Memorial Bridge, extending from Invvood 
Hill to Spuyten Duyvil Hill, across Spuyten Duyvil Creek 
at its confluence with the Hudson River, is assured 
by action already taken by the municipal authorities. We 
recommend that this Commission formally adopt the 
bridge as part of the commemoration. 

We also recommend that the viaduct projected by the 
city to cross Dyckman street, to connect the southern end 
of Inwood Hill with Washington Heights on the south, be 
called the Fulton Memorial Viaduct, and, if possible, dedi- 
cated at the same time. This viaduct will, like the Hud- 
son Memorial Bridge, be in view of the Hudson River, and 
the propriety of adopting this substantial and enduring 
municipal work as a memorial complementary to the bridge 
above seems to be obvious. 

We also recommend that on this third day any other 
memorials of Hudson and Fulton erected by individual or 
associated enterprise or by the State of New Jersey, and 
any riparian parks, such as that along the Palisades or as 
may be created by municipalities farther up the river, be 
dedicated with such friendly co-operation as this Commis- 
sion may find it feasible to give. 

Jf. Park and Memorial at Inwood Hill. 

We recommend that about 75 acres of the northern 
portion of Inwood Hill be taken for a Public Park. There 
are many strong reasons moving to this suggestion. This 
park, which has already been recommended by influential 
civic societies and by the city's own engineers, would se- 
cure the last portion of Manhattan Island remaining in 
almost its primeval condition. From this beautiful wooded 
knoll, appearing to us to-day almost as it did to Henry 
Hudson nearly 300 years ago, a more extended view up 
Hudson's river can be obtained than from any other part 
of the Island. Besides its landscape beauty, it has many 
historical associations. At the base of the cliffs near Cold 



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Spring is a rock habitation in which the aborigines dwelt, 
as was proven by the implements and utensils excavated 
therefrom and now preserved in the Museum of Natural 
History. Around it are scattered extensive shell-heaps left 
by the Indians belonging to the tribe which attacked Hud- 
son on his return down the river. On the summit of the 
hill during the Revolution stood the Cock Hill Fort. 
This Park, at the southern terminus of the Hudson Memo- 
rial Bridge, would not only provide another lasting and 
useful work for the benefit of the people, but it would 
also add dignity to the Bridge and afford a site for such 
other memorial, architectural or sculptural, as may be 
found practicable. The northern head of the hill, surrounded 
on three sides by water, cannot be obscured by private 
structures on those sides, and presents an unequalled site 
for the erection of a municipal museum, a statue or group 
of statuary, or other suitable monument. We recommend 
that some such monument form a portion of the plan, and 
that the Architectural League and the National Sculpture 
Society be invited to offer suggestions to the Commission 
as to the form of such a monumental structure. 

5. State Park at Verplanck's Point. 

We recommend that the State of New York authorize 
the acquisition by agreement or condemnation of about 20 
acres on Verplanck's Point, or so much as may be necessary 
to embrace the salient landscape and historical features of 
the Point, for a Public Park. 

Hudson sailed between Stony and Verplanck's Points 
on his northward voyage September 14, 1609, according to 
an easily recognizable passage in his journal, and anchored 
here on his return trip, October ist. These two headlands 
form the natural gateway to the Highlands and have been 
likened by Irving to the Pillars of Hercules, of which 
Stony Point is the Gibraltar. The State already has a 
reservation of 34 acres on the Stony Point Battlefield, which 
has been improved under the care of the American Scenic 
and Historic Preservation Society and is now visited by 
nearly 20,coo persons a year. 

On Verplanck's Point, the military complement of 
Stony Point, stood Fort Fayette, which shared the vicissi 



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tudes of the post across the river, and the remains of which 
are still extant. Here, in 1782, Washington and the Ameri- 
can Army received Count Rochambeau and the French 
auxiliaries en route from Virginia for Boston. The hill on 
which Washington's marquee stood is one of the conspicu- 
ous eminences in that region. Between the two points was 
the famous King's Ferry, which was the principal trans- 
Hudson thoroughfare between New England and the West 
and South during the War for Independence, and across 
which all the great commanders and conspicuous figures of 
that period and troops of all the armies passed at one time 
or another. 

This point, while not lacking diversity of elevation, is 
not so rugged as Stony Point, and is readibly adaptable to 
the purposes of a great recreation ground for wholesome 
popular enjoyment such as does not exist either in the City 
of New York or elsewhere in the State. The rapid growth 
of the metropolis and the increasing difficulty of providing 
adequate recreation grounds within the city limits ; the jus- 
tice of reserving from private ownership suitable places 
where the people at large, in city and country, can have ac- 
cess to and free enjoyment of the beauties of the world- 
famous Hudson; and the material shortening of time-dis- 
tances by improved transit facilities, are added reasons for 
giving to the people on this occasion this eligible and inter- 
esting reservation on the east bank of the river. 

This reservation would also provide a reasonable area 
for a number of permanent buildings in case the State 
should hereafter decide to erect any in furtherance of the 
objects of the celebration. 

The foregoing recommendations are not intended 
to be exclusive of any other action by the State of 
New York that may subsequently be decided upon with 
regard to the acquisition or development of other places 
or objects, in furtherance of the same general idea of cele- 
bration. 

6. The Date of the Celebration. 

Hudson's first landfall within the limits of the present 
Greater City of New York was made on September 2d, 
1609, according to the old style. He entered the upper 
harbor and saw the mouth of the river September 12th, old 



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style The date of Fulton's first voyage with the Clermont 
was August 17th, 1807. None of these dates is ideal for the 
inauguration of the Celebration in 1909- People have 
hardly returned from their summer resorts by September 
i2th The last week of September would seem to be the 
mos^ convenient time. If advantage be taken of the re- 
formed calendar, as is done m the popular observance of 
Februarv 22d as the birthday of Washington, who was 
born on February nth, old style, the 300th anniversary 
of Hudson's first sight of the Hudson River would come 
on Thursday, September 23d, 1909. We therefore recom- 
mend that the celebration be held during the week begin- 
ning Monday, September 2.th, 1909, upon days subsequently 
to be determined. 

In submitting this preliminary report, the Committee 
desire it to be understood that they do not regard it as 
final or exhaustive, but subject to such additions or modi- 
firations as may be found desirable. 

If approved bv the Executive Committee it is suggested 
that subcommittees of three or four members each may 
be appointed, to study out and perfect the details o each 
of above named leading features, such sub-committees to 
make their report early in the fall. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Frederick W. Seward. 
James M. Beck, 
Wm. W. Goodrich, 
Fredk. D. Grant, 
George F. Kunz, 
Seth Low, 

William McCarroll, 
Eben E. Olcott, 
John E. Parsons, 
Samuel B. Ward, 
Stewart L. Woodford. 

Committee on Plan and Scope. 

New York, June 13, 1906. 



June 13, 1906 123 

DATE OF THE CLERMONT'S FIRST TRIP. 

Histories being at variance concerning the date of 
Fulton's first steamboat trip from New York to Albany, 
the following extracts from the American Citizen, pub- 
lished at New York, on Monday, August 17, and Saturday, 
August 22, 1807, respectively, are reprinted for information. 
The date of Fulton's letter should have been the 21st 
instead of the 20th, as Friday, the day of his return to 
New York, was August 21st. 



AMERICAN CITIZEN. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST 17. 

Mr. Fulton's ingenious Steam Boat, in- 
vented with a view to the navigation of the 
Mississippi from New Orleans upwards, 
sails today from the North River, near 
the State Prison to Albany. The velosity 
of the Steam Boat is calculated at four 
miles an hour; it is said that it will make 
a progress of two against the current of 
the Mississippi ; and if so it will certainly 
be a very valuable acquisition to the com- 
merce of the Western States. 



[From the American Citizen of August 22, 1807.] 

. Nkw York, A ti^ttst 20. 
To the Editor of the American Citizen. 
Sir, 

I arrived this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the 
steamboat from Albany. As the success of 
my experiment gives me great hope that such 
boats may be rendered of much importance 
to my country, to prevent erroneous opin- 
ions, and give some satisfaction to the friends 
of useful improvements, you will have the 
goodness to publish the following statement of 
facts: 

I left New York on Monday at i o'clock, 
and arrived at Clermont, the seat of Chan- 
cellor Livingston, at i o'clock on Tuesday, 
time 24 hours, distance no miles; on Wed- 



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nesday I departed from the Chancellor's at 9 
in the morning, and arrived at Albany at 5 
in the afternoon, distance 40 miles, time 8 
hours; the sum of this is 150 miles in 32 
hours, equal near 5 miles an hour. 

On Thursday, at 9 o'clock in the morning, 
I left Albany, and arrived at the Chancel- 
lor's at 6 in the evening; I started from 
thence at 7, and arrived at New York on 
Friday at 4 in the afternoon, time 30 hours, 
space run through 150 miles, equal 5 miles 
an hour. Throughout the whole way my going 
and returning the wind was ahead; no ad- 
vantage could be drawn from my sails — the 
whole has, therefore, been performed by the 
power of the steam engine. 
I am. Sir, 

Your most obedient, 

ROBERT FULTON. 



We congratulate Mr. Fulton and the coun- 
try on his success in the Steam Boat, which 
cannot fail of being very advantageous. We 
understand that not the smallest inconveni- 
ence is felt in the boat either from heat or 
smoke. 



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Cfjapter 325 of tf)e ilafcDs! of 1906 

of ti)c 

fetate of iSeto gorfe 



tKo arrange for tfje " Commemo= 
ration of tlje ^erCentcnarp of 
tfje Bisicoberp of tfje J^utSon 
l&ibcr bp l^enrp J^ubson in tfjc 
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Wint of ^tcam in tbe i^abigation 
of s!aib riber bp i^obert Jf ulton 
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Herbert Adams. 

John G. A^ar. 

R. B. AldcVoftt, Jr. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 
. Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 

Geo. Wm. Ballou. 

Theodore M. Banta. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

James .17. Beck. 

August Belmont. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. William Herri. 

Hon. Frank S. Black. 

Reginald Felham Bolton. 

Hon. David A. Bo.idy. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 

George V. Bromer. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 

William L. Bull. 

Henry K. Bush-Brown. 

Hon. E. H. Butler. 

Hon. J. Rider Cady. 

John F. Calder. 

Hon. J H. Callanan. 

Henry W. Cannon. 

Andreio Carni-gie. 

Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 

Sir Caspar Piirdon Clarke. 

Hon. George C. Cl.iusen. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 

Hon. Grover Clez'eland 

Re a r Adin. J. B. Cogh Ian. 

E. C. Converse. 

Walter Cook. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

E. D. Cummings. 

IVilliamJ. Curtis. 

J'aul D. Craz'ath. 

Robt. Fulton Cutting. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G.DeWitt 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

•John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyvesani Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Foivler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Hon. William W. Goodrich. 
George J. Gould. 



Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edivard Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hear?!. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. li'arren Hi^ley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I 'erplanckHoffman 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H . Hubbard. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugjist F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay. 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kunz 
Tohti LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry ISl . Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Walter Seth Logan. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
William A. Marble. 
Gecrge E. Matthews. 
li 'illia m Mc Ca rroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
WilliatnJ. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J . Pierpont iilorgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm. C. Muschenheim. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Ludii'i^ Nissen. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel .k. Parker. 
lohtt E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. W. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
[Names of Trustees in italics^ 



George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter. 

Thomas R. Proctor 

Hon. Cornelius A . Pugsley, 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Her ma n Ridder. 

William Rockejeller. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W. Sackett. 

George Heniy Sargent. 

Herbert L. Satterlee. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn. 

Prest Jacob G. Sch u rma n . 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

Isaac N. Seliginan. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. loseph H. Senner. 

Hon. Frederick 11'. Seiuard. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

/. Edivard Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

E V. Skinner. 

Prof, lohn C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John. H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Wm. L. Stone 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Spencer Trask. ' 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Aaron I'anderbilt. 

Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 

Cornelius I'anderbilt. 

Rev. Dr. Henry I'an Dyke. 

Warner Van Norden. 

W»i. B. Ian Rensselaer. 

Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 

J Leonard Varick. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W I'rooman. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon W. L. Ward. 

Hon. William C. Warren. 

Edward Wells, Jr. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

Hon. Andrew D. W/tite. 

J. Du Pratt White. 

Fred C Whitney. 

Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

Stew a rt L. U 'oodford. 

Ho n Timothy L.li 'oodruff. 

W. E. Woolley. 

James A. Wright. 



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(Revised to July 6, 1906.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

I 'ice-P residents : 
Andrew Carnegie, J. IMerpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate. Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Herman Ridder, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasuter : 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secreta>y: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Coftimittee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 
Hon. WilHam W. Goodrich, Vice-Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Andrew Carnegie, John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate. (ieorge W. Perkins, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Rear Adm. LB. Coghlan, U.S.N. Louis C. Raegener, 
William J.Curtis, Herman Ridder, 

Theodore Fitch, Henry W. Sackett, ^ 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Col. William Jay, J. Edward Simmons, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Spencer Trask, 

John La Farge, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

William McCarroll, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Frank D. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

(and I to be appointed). 
Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, John E Parsons, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Seth Low, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Law: 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, <?jr-c»^«V?. 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 



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Executive Committee 

June 27, 1906 

The fourth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission was held at headquarters in the Tribune Building, 
New York, Wednesday, June 27, 1906, at 3 p. m. 

Present : The Chairman, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford; 
and Mr, Theodore Fitch, Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Mr. Wm. 
McCarroll, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, Gen. James 
Grant Wilson and Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Mr. Fitch from the Committee on Nominations re- 
ported favorably the following nominations : 

To be Trustees, to fill vacancies : Mr. Thomas R. Proc- 
tor, of Utica; Mr. Charles R. Wilson, of Buffalo, and Mr. 
George W. Perkins, of New York. 

To be Vice-President, in place of the late Hon. Robert 
B. Roosevelt : the Hon. Frederick W. Seward. 

The report was adopted and referred to the Trustees 
with a favorable recommendation. 

The meeting then adjourned. 



Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

June 27, 1906 

The third meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, June 
27, 1906, at 3 p. m. 

Present: The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding; and Rear-Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, Mr. 
Theodore Fitch, Hon. William W. Goodrich, Mr. Henry 
E. Gregory, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, 
Mr. Wm. McCarroll, Mr. Wm. J. McKay, Rear-Admiral 



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Geo. W. Melville, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Mr. Louis C. Raege- 
ner, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Nelson S. Spencer, Mr. 
Aaron Vanderbilt, Col. John W. Vrooman, Mr. Charles R. 
Wilson, Gen. James Grant Wilson and Mr. Edward Haga- 
man Hall. 

The following Commissioners, having come for the 
meeting of the Commission immediately to follow the 
Trustees' meeting, were invited by the President to be 
present at the Trustees' meeting: Dr. E. Parmly Brown, 
Hon. J. H. Callanan, Mr. Charles A. DuBois, Mr. Benj. F. 
Hamilton, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr, Charles VV. Lefler, 
Mr. Julius Lehrenkrauss, Commander Charles H. Loring, 
Mr. Wm. C. Muschenheini, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr., Mr. 
Mr, Gordon H. Peck, Mr. Louis T. Romaine, Mr. William 
L. Stone and Mr. Charles B. Wolffram. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Mr. 
Henry W, Cannon, Mr. Wm. J. Curtis, Maj.-Gen. F. D, 
Grant, Gen. H. C, King, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Seth 
Low, Mr. J, W. Miller, Mr. F. D. Millet, Dr, Eugene H. 
Porter, Mr. Herman Ridder, President J. G. Schurman, Mr. 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. F. W. Seward, Dr. S. B. 
Ward, Mr. Edmund Wetmore, Hon. Andrew D. White and 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, and they were excused. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were adopted without reading. 

The Secretary read a communication dated June 19, 
from Mr. Frank E. Perley, Secretary of the Governor, 
stating that the Governor had appointed to the Com- 
mission the following named gentlemen nominated by the 
Board of Trustees : Rear-Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U* 
S. N., Brooklyn Navy Yard ; Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, of 
Utica ; Mr, Wm. L, Stone, of Mt. Vernon ; Hon. Theodore 
H. Silkman, of Yonkers; Col. John. W. Vrooman, of Herki- 
mer and New York City and Mr. Charles R. Wilson, of 
Buffalo, 

Mr, Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations^ 
presented the report of the Executive Committee nomi- 
nating Mr, Thomas R. Proctor, Mr. Charles R. Wilson and 
Mr. George W. Perkins as Trustees to fill vacancies, and 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward as Vice-President in place of 
the Hon. Robert B, Roosevelt, deceased. 



June 27, 1906 131 

By ballot duly cast, the follovvin_2: named gentlemen 
were unanimously elected as Trustees, the first five having 
been recommended by the Executive Committee at a meet- 
ing held June 13 and the last three June 27 : Rear-Admiral 
J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N., xMr. George A. Hearn, Mr. Henry 
E. Gregory, Hon. John H. Slarin, Col. J. W. Vrooman, 
Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, Mr. George W. Perkins and Mr. 
Charles R. Wilson. 

ihe following minute in regard to the late Hon. 
Robert B. Roosevelt, prepared at the request of the Presi- 
dent, was read and adopted : 

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission with pro- 
found sorrow records the death, on Thursday, June 14, 
1906, of its distinguished Vice-President, the Hon. Robert 
B. Roosevelt, of New York, in the 77th year of his age. 

It was by Mr. Roosevelt's invitation and in his hos- 
pitable home at No. 57 Fifth avenue that the first meeting 
of the representatives of the historical societies was held on 
February 15, 1905, that led to the creation of this Com- 
mission ; and although ill-health prevented his active par- 
ticipation in its meetings after its permanent organization, 
he followed its work with the unimpaired interest of his 
wonderful faculties until the end. 

Lineally descended from ancestors who came from 
Holland to New Amsterdam within 23 years after the pur- 
chase of Manhattan Island from the Indians, and from in- 
termediate ancestors who, on both sides, were almost with- 
out exception of pure Dutch descent, he was at the time of 
his death the most typical and distinguished representa- 
tive in his generation of the old Dutch stock of this city 
and the most perfect embodiment of the spirit of the re- 
markable people who first permanently planted European 
civilization and culture within the limits of the present 
City and State of New York. 

Born in Cortlandt street, when the residential section 
of the city was still within a few rods of the site of 
the wall which marked the northernmost bound of New 
Amsterdam, Mr. Roosevelt's life of more than the allotted . 
age of man covered a period of phenomenal municipal 
growth in which he was an active factor. His politi- 
cal affiliations were with the Democratic party. He 
was a patriot before he was a partisan, and when 
occasion arose did not hesitate to assert the independence 
which was one of his predominant characteristics. He 
repeatedly declined public honors, but was persuaded 
at different times to hold the offices of Alderman of the 
City of New York, State Fish and Game Commissioner, 



132 Minutes of Trustees 

Member of Congress, and American Minister at the Hague, 
the duties of which he discharged with honor to himself, 
the City, the State and the Nation. 

During the late war with Spain, when his nephew, now 
President of the United States, was serving with the Amer- 
ican troops in Cuba, he strongly championed the cause of 
the soldiers in the field and organized a movement de- 
signed to secure for them better sanitary conditions and 
better food. 

Cultured in mind, original in his ideas, positive in his 
convictions, tenacious of his opinions when he believed 
them to be right, devoted to the Cily in whose history and 
progress he took an intense pride, thoughtful of the welfare 
of his fellow citizens, honest in purpose, kmdly in thought, 
generous of heart, simple in his habits, and a lover of out- 
door life and physical exercise, he held a high place in the 
esteem of his fellow citizens as an example of vigorous 
American manhood and character ; and his memory will 
long be cherished with respect and affection by the City in 
which he passed his long and honored career. 

Therefore be it resolved, that the foregoing be spread 
in full upon the minutes of the Commission, and that a 
copy thereof, signed by the President and Secretary, be 
sent to his family, with the assurances of the Commission's 
sincere sorrow and sympathy. 

By ballot duly cast, the Hon. Frederick W. Seward 
was unanimously elected a Vice-President in place of the 
late Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt. 

It was voted to recommend to the Governor and 
Mayor the following named gentlemen for appointment to 
the Commission, the names having been approved by the 
Committee on Nominations and the Executive Committee: 
For appointment by the Governor: The Hon. M. Linn 
Bruce of New York, Lieutenant Governor; Hon. Warner 
Miller of Herkimer, Mr. Edward C. Wilson of Peekskill, 
and Prof. John C. Smock of Hudson; and for appointment 
by the Mayor: The Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

The report of the Executive Committee upon letters 
highly recommending the appointment of Mr. Arthur Eng- 
lish as permanent counsel of the Commission, recommend- 
ing that no action be taken in respect to such appointment 
for reasons stated in the printed minutes of the Executive 
Committee of June 13, was approved. 

The following amendment to the By-laws which was 
proposed at the last meeting of the Trustees and a copy of 



June 27, 1906 133 

which had been sent out to all the members of the Board 
with the notice of this meeting, was adopted: 

Resolved, that the by-laws be amended by chang- 
ing the number of the present "Article V.'' to "Article 
VI.," and that the following new Article V be adopted: 

ARTICLE V. 

SEAL. The Seal of the Commission shall be circular 
in form, two and one-fourth inches in diameter. Its de- 
sign shall be as follows: In the foreground, a classical, 
draped, female figure symbolizing the genius of the Hud- 
son River, standing upon the prow of a boat, supporting 
under her right hand a shield bearing the name and dale 
" Henry Hudson, 1609," and under her left hand a similar 
shield bearing the name and date "Robert Fulton, 1807" ; 
upon the prow of the boat the date " 1909" ; in the 
middle distance the Hudson River, and upon it, above the 
respective shields, Hudson's ship the Half Moon and 
Fulton's steamboat the Clermont; in the background, 
the Palisades; and in the border surrounding the whole, 
the words and date : " Seal of the Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission, 1906." 

The Report of the Committee on Plan and Scope as 
adopted by the Executive Committee June 13 and printed 
in the minutes of that meeting was taken up for con- 
sideration. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the report be amended by in- 
serting before the last paragraph of Section 5 of the report 
the following: 

"The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, while 
opposed to a temporary World's Fair as an adjunct to the 
Tercentenary, favors a Permanent Exposition at Verplanck's 
Point, provided, however, that the plans therefor, includ- 
ing the securing of the necessary amount of money, to be 
hereafter submitted by the persons interested, shall be sat- 
isfactory to the Trustees of the Commission, that the Com- 
mission shall not be required to provide any funds there- 
for, or to undertake the establishment or management of 
such Permanent Exposition, and shall not incur any lia- 
bility therefor." 

Mr. Phillips, while not objecting to the general idea 
embodied in the motion, thought that if it were inserted 
after the paragraph referring to the proposed State Park 
at Verplanck's Point, it would imply that the Commission 
favored establishing the Exposition in the Park. He was 



134 Minutes of 1 rustees 

opposed to establishing a private enterprise in a State 
park. 

Mr. Fitch said that his idea was that if the Park were 
created as recommended by the report, it would be solely 
under the management of the State. If a permanent ex- 
position were established, it would be outside the Park, 
except so far as the State might permit the Park to be used. 
He did not advocate a union of private and municipal in- 
terests. 

Mr. Sackett said that he did not want to be under- 
stood as opposed to a Permanent Exposition at Verplanck's 
Point, but he felt that there was not sufficient evidence 
before this Commission to warrant it in favoring the pro- 
ject. The Committee on Plan and Scope, in the last para- 
graph of Section 5, had left the question open by saying: 

" The foregoing recommendations are not intended to 
be exclusive of any other action by the State of New York 
that may subsequently be decided upon with regard to the 
acquisityion or development of other places or objects, in 
furtherance of the same general idea of celebration. '' 

He therefore thought it inexpedient without further 
information to declare unequivocally in favor of a Perma- 
nent Exposition. 

Mr. McCarroU expressed himself in accord with Mr. 
Sackett. He thought it unwise for this Commission to en- 
dorse at this time the work of another distinct body. If at 
some other time the projectors should have some tangible 
and responsible plans to submit, it might be well to con- 
sider them, but it would be a mistake to adopt the project 
now. 

After some further discussion the question on Mr. 
Fitch's motion was put and declared lost. A rising vote 
was called for and the motion was declared lost (by a vote 
of 4 ayes and 8 noes). 

Mr. McKay of Newburgh read a paper objecting to the 
third paragraph of Section i of the report, which reads as 
follows: 

"On account of the deep draft of the larger vessels, it 
will be impossible, of course, for the whole pageant to pro- 
ceed farther than Haverstraw Bay. Haverstraw Bay is 
the widest part of the river, being five miles broad, and 
would form the safest turning point for such vessels as 



June 27, 1906 135 

cannot proceed beyond Stony and Verplanck's Points, 
which form the northern boundary of that bay. These 
vessels can return and anchor opposite Manhattan Island 
and in the evening illuminate and display fireworks." 

Mr, McKay quoted Admiral Taylor as having said, 
when Stony Point Park was dedicated in 1902, that any 
vessel which could float over the bar at Nyack could find 
ample water almost as far as Albany. Mr. McKay quoted 
the soundings of the channel to Newburgh Bay in support of 
his suggestion that Newburgh Bay be made the turning point 
of the naval parade. He referred to the historical impor- 
tance of the Xewburgh section and quoted a tradition to the 
effect that Breakneck Mountain was so named on account 
of the fate of an Indian princess whom Hudson, on his way 
up the river, promised to marry, who kept vigil for his 
return, and who, when the boat returned and Hudson did 
not keep his promise, flew to the mountain top and cast 
herself from the cliff. He also spoke of the important 
revolutionary memories of Newburgh and vicinity, of the 
size of Newburgh — the largest city between New York and 
Albany — the accessibility of the city by six railroads, and 
the facility with which a fleet could manoeuvre in the bay; 
and concluded by advocating that the report be amended 
by making Newburgh Bay the turning point of the naval 
parade. 

Mr. Phillips said that the Commission was not bound 
down to the report. He favored adopting it as it was, 
and leaving the question to be determined by the sub-com- 
mittee to whom this section would be assigned. 

Col. Vrooman suggested that further consideration of 
this paragraph be postponed until the next meeting, pend- 
ing a report by Admiral Coghlan on the practicability of 
the channel. 

Mr. McCarroll favored postponement until the ques- 
tion of the safety of the passage for large naval vessels as 
far as Newburgh could be ascertained. 

After some further discussion, it was finally voted that 
the report of the Plan and Scope Committee as printed, 
except the last two paragraphs of Section i, be adopted. 

Mr. McCarroll then moved that the two excepted par- 
agraphs be referred back to the Plan and Scope Committee 



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with Mr. McKay's paper for further consideration. Car- 
ried. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the president be authorized to 
appoint the sub-committees recommended by the report. 
Carried. 

Mr. Gordon H. Peck was accorded the floor to urge 
the Trustees to take definite action upon the tender of Mr. 
Francis Bannerman of New York, communicated by and 
with the endorsement of the American Scenic and His- 
toric Preservation Society, to erect on Polopel's Island, at 
the southern end of Newburgh Bay, a colossal statue of 
Henry Hudson at his own expense, and to throw his pri- 
vate grounds on the island open free to the public on 
Saturdays and holidays, so long as visitors made proper 
use of their privileges. The offer was made on condition 
that the dedication of the statue should form a part of the 
official celebration in 1909. This offer was communicated 
to the Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee at its meet- 
ing held in the City Hall December 29, 1905, and is re- 
corded on page 13 of the printed minutes. Mr. Peck felt 
that Mr. Bannerman had not been shown the courtesy 
which his disinterested offer should have received. 

The President asked if this offer had been presented 
in writing. 

The Assistant Secretary replied that it had. He re- 
stated the offer of Mr. Bannerman, and, as a member of the 
Board of Trustees, urged its favorable consideration. 
There were so few public parks along the Hudson by 
means of which the people at large could get to the river 
and enjoy its beauties and pleasures, that he thought pri- 
vate citizens should be encouraged to throw open their 
private grounds to the public as Mr. Bannerman had 
offered to do. 

Judge Goodrich said he had gathered the idea, possi- 
bly erroneous, that Polopel's Island was to be used as a 
picnic ground, to which an admission fee would be 
charged; and a3 this was a State Commission he wanted 
to guard against the exploitation of any private property. 

In response to a direct question by Judge Goodrich, 
Mr. Peck reiterated the purpose of Mr. Bannerman to make 
access to his grounds absolutely free. 



June 27, 1906 137 

Mr. Sacketi moved that the offer of Mr. Bannerman 
be referred to the sub-committee on Section 3 of the re 
port. 

Mr. Raegener expressed what appeared to be the 
opinion of his colleagues, that no discourtesy was intended 
toward Mr. Bannerman, and suggested that the Secretary 
write to Mr. Bannerman explaining that his offer was re- 
ceived before this commission was incorporated and before 
it could take official cognizance of it, but that it would be 
referred to the proper sub-committee and that he would be 
further advised of the action of the Commission. 

With this understanding, Mr. Sackett's motion was 
carried. 

The President handed to the Secretary for record a 
certified copy of the following resolution, adopted by the 
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the City of New 
York June 20, 1906 : 

Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel be and is 
hereby requested to prepare a lease fo the City, from the 
Tribune Association, of Room No. 605 on the sixth floor 
in the Tribune Building, at the northeast corner of Nassau 
and Spruce streets, Borough of Manhattan, for the use of 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, for a period 
of one year from the date of occupation, at an annual ren- 
tal of one thousand dollars ($1000), payable monthly; the 
lessor to furnish light, heat, elevator and janitor service; the 
rent to be paid out of the appropriation made by the City 
of New York for the expenses of the said Commission; and 
the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund deeming the said 
rent fair and reasonable and that it would be for the inter- 
ests of the city that such lease be made, the Comptroller be 
and is hereby authorized and directed to execute the same 
when prepared and approved by the Corporation Counsel, 
as provided by Sections 149 and 217 of the Greater New 
York Charter. 

The President announced that, Mr. William McCarroll 
having resigned as a member of the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee, he had appointed Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt in his 
place. 

The meeting then adjourned 



138 

Minutes of 

The Commission 

June 27, 1906 

The first meeting of the entire Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration Commission since its incorporation was held at its 
headquarters in the Tribune Building, Wednesday, June 27, 
1906, upon the adjournment of the Trustees' meeting held 
■on the same day. 

Present : The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding, and the gentlemen already named in the fore- 
going minutes of the Trustees. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from ab- 
sentees mentioned in the foregoing minutes and from the 
following, and they were excused : Mr. Wm. L. Bull, Hon. 
A. T. Clearwater, Mr. Austin G. Fox, Mr. Abner S. 
Haight, Mr. G. A. Plimpton, Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, Mr. 
Louis Seligsberg, and Mr. C. Y. Turner. 

The President stated that as those in attendance had 
been present at the Trustees' meeting just held and wit- 
nessed its proceedings, it was not necessary to make a 
formal report of their transactions. He then asked for a 
full and free expression of opinion on any matter relating 
to the work of the Commission. 

Mr. Gordon H. Peck moved that the Trustees be rec- 
ommended to extend the naval parade as far as Newburgh 
Bay and that the Hudson statue proposed to be erected by 
Mr. Francis Bannerman on Polopel's Island be dedicated 
as a feature of the parade. 

Col. Vrooman favored leaving this matter over until 
the next meeting. He thought it questionable whether a 
large battleship could go to Newburgh Bay and return in 
time for an illumination at night. 

Mr. Charles R. Lamb was in favor of the dedication of 
Mr. Bannerman's statue as a feature of the celebration, 
provided the jegal members of the Commission saw no ob- 
stacle and the design was acce{)iable to the artistic mem- 
bers. He called attention, however, to the fact that if it 
were proposed to have this dedication as a feature of the 
naval parade, it should not be referred to the sub-commit- 



June 27, 1906 139 

tee on Section 3 of ihe report, which was limited to the 
dedication of memorials. He thought it should receive the 
consideration of the whole Plan and Scope Committee. 

After some further discussion the motion was modified 
so as to recommend that the naval parade be extended to 
Newburgh Bay if found feasible, and that the matter of the 
Polopel's Island Monument be left in the hands of the Plan 
and Scope Committee. As modified, the motion was 
carried. 

Mr. Lefler asked for information concerning the status 
of the projected exposition at Verplanck's Point. 

The President explained briefly that a "Citizens Com- 
mittee of 500 " had been organized with a view to holding 
a Permanent Exposition at Verplanck's Point. Such an 
exposition might cost $10,000,000 or $20,000,000. The 
plans of that Committee were as yet so inchoate and so 
little money had been as yet pledged to support the pro- 
ject, that the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission had 
not felt justified in taking any action on the subject. 

Judge Goodrich referred to the communication re- 
ceived by the Committee on Plan and Scope from the Pal- 
isades Interstate Park Commission, mentioned on page 113 
of the printed minutes, and offered the following 
resolution : 

" Resolved, that the Governor of New York State 
be requested, if he shall so approve, to invite the Governor 
of New Jersey to nominate not to exceed ten citizens of that 
State for appointment as additional members of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission. " 

Carried. 

The President announced his intention to appoint Mr. 
George W. Perkins, President of the Palisades Interstate 
Park Commission, a member of the Executive Committee 
of this Commission so that there might be the fullest pos- 
sible interchange of views between the two bodies. He 
hoped that in this way there would be mutual confidence 
and ultimate agreement. 

Mr. Charles R. Lamb moved to recommend to the 
Trustees that on the day of the naval parade, a counter- 
demonstration be arranged to start from Albany and pro- 
ceed southward, meeting the portion of the procession ap- 
proaching from the south at a rendezvous to be agreed 
upon. 



140 Minutes of Commission 

After a few remarks in support of the suggestion, the 
motion was adopted. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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142 



i^uligonjFulton Celebration Commiggion. 



Herbert Adams. 
John G. A^ar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon James K. Apgar. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballon. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
fames M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. B'ack. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
George V. Bro-.ver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Hush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J H. Callanan. 
Henry 11'. Canny}!. 
Andren' Carnegie. 
Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 
Sir Caspar Pur don Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Cl.iusen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. G7'over Cleveland- 
Re a r A dm J. B. Cogh la n , 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J . Curtis. 
Paul D.Cravath. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting, 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 
Hon. Chauncey 1\L Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
George Cl.DeWitt 
Hon. William Draper. 
Charles A.DuBois. 
John C. Fames 
George Ehret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Arthur English 
Most Rev. John M. Farley. 
Hon J. Sloat Fassett. 
Barr Ferree. 
Stuyvesant Fish. 
Theodore Fitch. 
Winchester Fitch. 
Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk. S. Flower. 
Thomas Powell Fowler. 
Austen G. Fox. 
Hon. Charles S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 
Hon Theodore P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
Hon Wi'liam W. Goodrich. 
George J. Gould. 



Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henry E Gregory. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edzvard Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Heartt.- 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Higley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I 'erplanckHoffman 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr.^LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H . Hubbard. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. Williani Jay. 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kunz. 
Tohn LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry I\I. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Lo-w. 
Willia-n K. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
William Mr Car roll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear-Ad. Geo. W. A/elville. 
Hon. John G. Milium. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm. C. Muschenheim. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Ludwig Nissen, 
W. R. 0"Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church O.sborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
lohn E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. W. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
George \. Plimpton. 
[Names of Trustees in italics.'\ 



Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henrj' C. Potter. 
Thomas R. Proctor. 
Hon. Cornelius A . Pugsley. 
Louis C. Raegener. 
Herman Ridder. 
William Rockefeller. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry M'. Sackett. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Herbert L. Satterlee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schurman. 
Gustav H. Schwab. 
Isaac N. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Frederick W. Se7vard. 
Hon. William F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
/. Edivard Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. John C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer. 
Hon. John. H. Starin. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Wm. L. Stone 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Sfiencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert LHmann. 
Aaron I'anderbilt 
Alfred G. I'anderbilt. 
Cornelius I 'a nderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. 
Wainer Van Norden. 
ll'i'i. B. I'an Rensselaer. 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
I Leonard Varick. 
"Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John ]]' J'rooman. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Ge?i. James Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewa rt L. II 'oodford. 
Hon . Timothy L.U 'oodruff. 
W. E. WooUey. 
James A. Wright. 



H3 
(Officers anb Committees!. 

(Revised to July 6, igc6.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice- P res iden ts : 
Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate. Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland,' Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Herman Ridder, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Frederick W, Seward, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer- 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistanl Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Committee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, iS Wall Street, New York, 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Vice-Chairman, 49 Wall Street, Xew York. 

James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Andrew Carnegie, John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, George W. Perkins, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 
Rear Adm.J.B.Coghlan, U.S.N. Louis C. Raegener, 

William J. Curtis, Herman Ridder, 

Theodore Fitch, Henry W. Sackett, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Col. William Jay, J. Edward Simmons, 

Morris K. Jesup. Hon. John H. Starin, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Spencer Trask, 

John La Farge, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

William McCarroU, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Frank D. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

(and I to be appointed). 
Co?nmittee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, John E Parsons, 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Seth Low, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Lazv: 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, M-c^c/f?. 

Com/nittee on Abominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway,' New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 



145 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

July 25, 1906 



The fourth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson - 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, July 
25, 1906, at 3 p. m. 

Present: The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding; and Mr. George V. Brower, Mr. Theodore 
Fitch, Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mr. August F. 
Jaccaci, Gen. Horatio C. King, Mr. William J. McKay, Rear- 
Admiral George W. Melville, Mr. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. N. 
Taylor Phillips, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Aaron Vander- 
bilt, Col. John W. Vrooman and Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Mr. 
James M. Beck, Hon. William Berri, Hon. E. H. Butler, 
Rear-Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, 
Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Col. William 
Jay, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Seth Low, Mr. John E. 
Parsons, President J. G. Schurman, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
Rev. Henry Van Dyke, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Hon. 
Andrew D. White and Mr. Charles R. Wilson, and they 
were excused. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were adopted without read- 
ing. 

The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Charles 
M. Kean, Chairman of the Exhibition Committee of the 
Municipal Art Society, stating the desire of that Society, 
which is represented upon the Commission by its President, 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb, to co-operate with the Commission 
in facilitating its work and suggesting in particular one 
form of such aid. Mr. Kean stated that it had occurred to 
them that the plans of the Commission might take definite 
form, possibly being embodied in sketches and plans which 
would be of great interest to the public; that if this were 



146 Minutes of Trustees 

so, they would be pleased to reserve special wall space in 
the next exhibition of that Society, to be held in the Spring 
of 1907, in the galleries of the new quarters of the National 
Art Club, Gramercy Park; that if this suggestion be re- 
garded favorably and they were informed of the number 
and size of the exhibits which the Commission would de- 
cide to loan them for that purpose, the necessary wall space 
would be reserved. 

After discussion, the subject matter of the letter from 
the Municipal Art Society was referred to the Executive 
Committee. 

The following letter from Governor Higgins was read : 
State of New York, 

Executive Chamber, 

Albany, July 5, 1906. 
Hon. Stewart L Woodford, 

Tribune Building, 

New York City. 

Sir : I am in receipt of your communication dated 
June 29th, containing unanimous recommendation of the 
Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission adopted at the meeting held on Wednesday, June 
27th last. In accordance with the recommendation of your 
Board of Trustees, I shall be glad to appoint the following 
gentlemen as additional members of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission : 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce, 
Hon. Warner Miller, 
Mr. Edward C. Wilson, 
Prof. John C. Smock. 

I also have copy of the resolution unanimously adopted, 
and in accordance therewith I am writing to-day to the 
Governor of New Jerse)^, inviting him to nominate not to 
exceed ten citizens of his State for appointment as addi- 
tional members of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission. I am, sir, yours truly, 

Frank W. Higgins. 

The President expressed appreciation for the cordial 
and prompt co-operation of the Governor and directed the 
letter to be placed on the minutes and on file. 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Richard H. Hunt, 
President of the Architectural League of New York, in 
which he stated that he would bring before the Executive 



July 25, 1906 147 

Committee of the League at the first opportunity the mat- 
ter of its proposed co-operation with the Commission in 
determining upon the suitable form of memorial to be 
erected in Inwood Park in accordance with the recommen- 
dations of the Committee on Plan and Scope. This letter 
was referred to the Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial 
at Inwood Hill. 

The Secretary stated that the minute and resolution 
in regard to the late Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, adopted 
at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, had been sent 
to his family, and read the following letter that had been 
received in response thereto: 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Secretary. 

Dear Sir: Will you please convey to your President 
and members of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion my deep appreciation and thanks for your kind letter, 
which I value more than I can say. Faithfully yours, 

R. B. Roosevelt, Jr. 

The President stated that he had received a letter from 
ex-President Grover Cleveland, written from his summer 
home, which was partly personal and in part referred to 
the work of the Commission. The President said: "In 
this letter there are two statements that I think the Com- 
mittee will be interested in hearing: 'I hope I need not 
assure you how fully I appreciate the importance of cele- 
brating Henry Hudson's exploration and Robert Fulton's 
initial navigation of the Hudson River. I am, on the 
whole, delighted with the report.' (That is, the re- 
port of the Committee on Plan and Scope.) 'I believe if 
the plan of commemoration it embodies is carried out and 
conducted with vigor and careful attention to detail, our 
people's patriotism and love of country for its own sake 
and for what it has grown to be can be stirred up in away 
that will be much in these days of heedlessness and sordid- 
ness.' I thought you would be interested to see how deeply 
the ex-President is interested in the work that we are 
doing." 

The resignation of Mr. William C.Warren, of Buffalo, 
was read and was duly accepted with regret. 

The following report was read: 



148 Minutes of Trustees 

PRELIMINARY REPORT 

OF THE 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON PARK AND MEMORIAL 
AT INWOOD HILL. 

To the Trustees of the Hudsou-Fulton Celel^ration Commission : 

Dear Sirs: The Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial 
at Inwood Hill think it desirable that a partial report shall 
be made by them, to be submitted to the Trustees at their 
next meeting. 

The Sub-Committee have been furnished with copies 
of letters addressed to the President of the National Sculp- 
ture Society and to the President of the Architectural 
League of New York, inviting suggestions for a memorial, 
either architectural or sculptural, to be placed on Inwood 
Hill, if it shall be acquired for a park. It may easily be 
that it will be some time before any such suggestions 
will come to the Commission or to the Sub-Committee and 
can be acted upon by its members. Obviously, any such 
memorial involves the acquisition of the park. The Sub- 
Committee think that action to that end is urgent and im- 
perative. 

The scheme for the Hudson Memorial Bridge, extend- 
ing from Inwood Hill to Spuyten Duyvil Hill, across 
Spuyten Duyvil Creek, is now being considered by the 
municipal authorities. Action upon the subject has already 
been taken by them. 

The report of the Plan and Scope Committee to tlie 
Commission recommended that the Commission adopt 
the bridge as part of the commemoration. It might hap- 
pen that action might be taken about the bridge which 
would militate against the plan for the park. And if the 
plan for the park is approved by the municipal authorities, 
it is of the greatest importance that no time shall be 
lost in proceedings to acquire title to the property. The 
Sub-Committee, therefore, by this partial preliminary 
report, recommend to the Trustees that a communication 
be addressed by them to the Board of Estimate and Appor- 
tionment urging the Board to approve the plan for a park, 
and to take early proceedings to make the plan effectual 



July 25, 1906 149 

The Sub-Committee think that it is suitable that there shall 
be furnished to the Board that portion of the report of the 
Plan and Scope Committee which relates to this subject, 
of which the following is a copy: 

"park and memorial at inwood hill. 

" We recommend that about 75 acres of the northern 
portion of Inwood Hill be taken for a public park. There 
are many strong reasons moving to this suggestion. This 
park, which has already been recommended by influential 
civic societies and by the city's own engineers, would 
secure the last portion of Manhattan Island remaining in 
almost its primeval condition. From this beautiful 
wooded knoll, appearing to us to-day almost as it did to 
Henry Hudson nearly 300 years ago, a more extended 
view up Hudson's River can be obtained than from any 
other part of the island. Besides its landscape beauty, it 
has many historical associations. At the base of the cliffs 
near Cold Spring is a rock habitation in which the aborigi- . 
nees dwelt, as was proven by the implements and utensils 
excavated therefrom and now preserved in the Museum 
of Natural History. Around it are scattered extensive 
shell-heaps left by the Indians belonging to the tribe which 
attacked Hudson on his return down the river. On the 
summit of the hill during the Revolution stood the Cock 
Hill Fort. This park, at the southern terminus of the 
Hudson Memorial Bridge, would not only provide another 
lasting and useful work for the benefit of the people, but it 
would also add dignity to the bridge and afford a site for 
such other memorial, architectural or sculptural, as may 
be found practicable. The northern head of the hill, sur- 
rounded on three sides by water, cannot be obscured by 
private structures on those sides, and presents an un- 
equaled site for the erection of a municipal museum, a 
statue or group of statuary, or other suitable monu- 
ment." 

The Sub-Committee also report that, in their opinion, 
it is desirable that they shall be authorized to urge the 
adoption of the park scheme upon such other bodies, munic- 
ipal and otherwise, and individuals, as may have to do 
with the subject or can aid in the accomplishment of the 
plan. 

Respectfully reported, 

JoHx E. Parsons, Chairman, 
William J. Curtis, 
Eben E. Olcott, 
Henry W. Sackett. 



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Mr. Sackett then moved the following: 

" J?esc>h'et/, that the recommendations of the Sub-Com- 
mittee on Park and Memorial at In wood Hill, as contained 
in the report just read, be adopted, and that the Sub-Com- 
mittee be and it hereby is authorized to take such steps as 
it may deem advisable by communication with the munici- 
pal authorities or otherwise to further the plans and pur- 
poses therein set forth." 

This resolution was duly seconded and unanimously 
carried. 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Carl Bitter, 
President of the National Sculpture Society, stating that 
the matter of the proposed co-operation of that Society 
with the Commission in respect to the proposed memorial 
on Inwood Hill would be called to theattention of his Soci- 
ety at the earliest possible moment. This letterwas referred 
to the Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Inwood 
Hill. 

The President stated that when the Trustees authorized 
him to appoint sub-committees they limited the number to 
three or four each, and that in appointing the committees 
he found that he could not get the men who represented 
all the branches of the work if limited to that number, and 
so he had taken the liberty, in appointing such sub-com- 
mittees, to put on them in several instances a larger num- 
ber and trusted to the Board to ratify such action. For 
example, on the Committee on Naval Parade, he appointed 
Rear-Admiral Coghlan, because he was stationed here and 
naturally was the best trained and fitted man. He wanted 
Mr. William J. McKay, who had stirred all the members of 
the Board by his plea for the extension of the parade to 
Newburgh, so that as a member of the Committee hecould 
plead his own cause with them. He wanted Mr. Jacob W. 
Miller, because he was thehead of the Naval Reserve. He 
wanted Mr. John H Starin, because he was a very large own- 
er of boats and a very liberal man in the use of them; and the 
President thought that Mr. Starin was getting interested 
and, if he was put upon the committee, would go to work 
and his whole fleet would be practically at the disposal of 
the Commission for anything it desired. He wanted Mr. 
Aaron Vanderbilt, because Mr, McCarroll said he knew all 



July 25, 1906 151 

about everj'thing that the Fulton Committee had done, 
and had asked him to put him upon that committee. That 
made five for that committee; and the President said he 
found he was fixed in the same way as to almost all the 
committees, so that if the Board would extend his author- 
ity and also give him permission to act from time to time 
in regard to increasing the number of members of such 
sub-committees when he should feel it to be really neces- 
sary, he would appreciate the confidence and try not to 
abuse it. 

Admiral Melville said he thought that was the 
proper thing to do and he was prepared to make a motion 
to that effect. Mr. Brower was in favor of amending the 
original motion. After an informal discussion a motion 
made by Mr. Fitch, and duly seconded, was unanimously 
adopted, that the President be authorized to appoint, from 
time to time, from the members of the Board of Trustees, 
such committees and sub-committees, and consisting of 
such number of members respectively, as he should deem 
necessary or advisable. 

The President said that he would avail himself at once 
of this authority by appointing Admiral Melville on the 
Naval Parade Committee. 

The Secretary stated that the Joint Committee had 
appointed Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall as its Assistant Sec- 
retary and had fixed his salary at $2,500 per year, payable 
in monthly payments. Since the incorporation of the Com- 
mission, Mr. Hall had continued to perform the duties of 
Assistant Secretary, but the Board of Trustees had taken 
no formal action with regard to his salary, although it had 
appointed him as Assistant Secretary. To meet the legal 
requirements, therefore, authority should be given for the 
payment of such salar}-. In that connection, the Secretary 
said that he wished to explain that Mr. Hall had sailed the 
previous week for Holland for a much needed vacation. 
He would be gone about five weeks, but his chief purpose 
in going would further the purposes of this Commission, 
because he would be looking up the old records with regard 
to Henry Hudson and his expedition to the American shores 
when the Hudson River was discovered, and the Secretary 
felt sure that he would he serving the Commission fully as 



152 Minutes of Trustees 

well during his vacation as if he were here. After speak- 
ing of the excellent work which Mr. Hall had already dune 
as Assistant Secretary, Mr. Sackett moved that the salary 
of the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, be 
at the rate of $2,500 per year, payable monthly, such pay- 
ment to begin with the time of the first services of Mr. 
Hall for the Commission after its incorporation. 

Mr. Miller called attention to the fact that Columbia 
College is about to put up on the water-front just below 
Grant's Tomb a stadium for athletics and also a pier and 
wharf for the landing of steamers and yachts and other 
vessels of that nature. He raised the question whether it 
would not be a good idea to have some committee of the 
Commission consider the advisability of creating at that 
point something that was greatly needed in this town, as 
the great port of America, a proper water-gate or reception 
arch from the water to the land for distinguished foreign 
visitors. He said that it was distinctly felt as a want, when 
a fleet of our navy or any foreign fleet or squadrons were 
here, that there was absolutely no place where distinguished 
foreign vistors could be landed. After further discussion 
Mr. Miller adopted a suggestion of the President that the 
matter be laid over for this meeting; that Mr. Miller sub- 
mit to the officers in brief form a statement of his sugges- 
tions; that these would be turned over by the President to 
Mr. Seward, the Chairman of the Committee on Plan and 
Scope, and to Mr. Parsons, the Chairman of the Sub-Com- 
mittee on Park and Memorial at Invvood Hill; that the 
matter could then be brought up at the September meet- 
ing of the Board of Trustees, when formal action might be 
taken and no time be lost. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 



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154 



^uti£ion=jFuIton Celebration Commiggion. 



Herbert Adams. 
John G. Agar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon James K. Apgar. 
Col. John Jacob Astor, 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballon. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bart left. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
James M . Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
George V. Broiver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Hush- Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. /. Rider Cady. 
lohn'F. Calder. 
Hon. J H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
A ndreii' Ca rnegie. 
Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 
Sir Caspar Pardon Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear A dm .J.B. Cogh la n , 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Cu}-tis. 
Paul D. Cravat h. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
George G. DeWitt, 
Hon. William Draper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 
George Ehret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Arthur English. 
Most Rev.John M. Farley. 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassctt. 
Barr Ferree. 
Stuyvesant Fish. 
Theodore Fitch. 
Winchester Filch. 
Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk. S. Flower. 
Thomas Poivell Foivler. 
Austen G. Fox. 
Hon. Charles S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 
Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
Hon. William W. Goodrich. 
George J. Gould. 



Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregorj'. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edivard Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warreti Higley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I crplayickHoffman 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H . Hubbard, 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay . 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. Gcore^e F. Kunz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb, 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry 31. LeiJ>ziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexovv. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
] I 'illia in Mc Ca rroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon, John G. liHlbztrn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W Miller, 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
IVm C. Muschenheim. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Lud-.vig Nissen. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
£ben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton H. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons., Jr. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Coradr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. W. Perkins 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
George A. Plimpton. 
fNames of Trustees in italics. 



Dr. Eugene H, Porter. 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henrj' C. Potter. 
Thomas R. Proctor. 
Hon. Cornelius A . Pugsley. 
Louts C. Raegener, 
Herman Ridder. 
William Rockefeller, 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
George Heniy Sargent. 
Herbert L . Salter lee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schur>nan. 
Gustav H. Schwab 
Isaac N. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. loseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Hon. William F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
/. Edward Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. lohn C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer 
Hon. John. H. Star in. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Wm. L. Stone 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Aaron Vanderbilt. 
Alfred G. I'anderbilt. 
Cornelijis I'anderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 
Wainer Van Norden. 
Jl'tn. B. I'an Rensselaer . 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W. I'rooman. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Hon W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry VV. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C.Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Willcox, 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stezvart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timotlty L,Woodrz<ff, 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 



155 
(0fficerfi! anb Committees;. 

(Revised to August 22, 1906.) 



Presidet'<i: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 
Vice-Presideti is : 
Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Herman Ridder, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Andrew D. W^hite. 
Treastner: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistatit Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive CoDuiiittee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Vice-Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Giover Cleveland, Louis C. Ra^gener, 

Rear Adm. LB. Coghlan, U.S.N. Herman Ridder, 
William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Filch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, VVm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Fart;e, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

William McCarroU, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Miller, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Coiiunittee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Cha.rman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, John E Parsons, 

Maj Gen. F. D. Grant, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

. Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Seih Low, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Law: 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, «--c^j^a^. 

Committee on N^omina'ions: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sack-ilt, The President, ex-officio. 



157 



Minutes of 

Trustees' Meetinor 

August 22, 1906. 

The fifth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson-Ful- 
ton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters in the 
Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, August 22, 
1906, at 3 P. M. 

Present : The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding; and Rear- Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., 
Mr. John C. Eames, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Samuel 
Verplanck Hoffman, Mr. William McCarroll, Mr. Ludwig 
Nissen, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Mr. Henry W. Sackett and Mr. 
Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Mr. 
Henry W. Cannon, Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Hon. Seth Low, Rear-Admiral George W. Melville, Mr. 
Frank D. Millet, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, President J. G. Schurman, 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr, 
J. Edward Simmons, Mr. Spencer Trask, Mr. Edward 
Wetmore, Hon. Andrew D. White and Mr. Charles R. 
Wilson, and they were excused. 

The minutes of the meeting of July 25 were approved 
as printed. 

A letter from Dr. George F. Kunz, dated New York, 
August 16, was read, suggesting that some inquiry be made 
of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission as to whether 
they can guarantee having the driveway in order for the 
celebration in 1909, or when they will have at least a part 
of it ready for public use. Referred to the Committee on 
Plan and Scope. 



158 Minutes of Trustees 

Mr. William McCarroll, Chairman of the Sub-Committee 
on the date of the celebration, presented the committee's 
report as follows : 

REPORT OK SUB-COMMITTEE ON DATE OF THE HUDSON-FULTON 
CELEBRATION 

Your Sub-Committee to which was referred that part 
of the report to the Commission of the Committee on Plan 
and Scope, which relates to the date of the Celebration, 
begs leave to report having met and duly considered the 
subject. 

It was the unanimous opinion that the time suggested 
for the holding of the Celebration, namely, in the week 
beginning Monday, September 20, 1909, is well chosen 
from the standpoints both of appropriateness as to the date 
of the events themselves and as to public interest and con- 
venience. 

From the same consideration your Committee believes 
that the three days most suitable are Tuesday, Wednesday 
and Thursday, respectively the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of that 
week. 

In the judgment of the Committee the feature of the 
Celebration which will be the greatest popular attraction is 
the Naval Parade and the illumination and fireworks, as 
outlined for the first day in the report of the Committee on 
Plan and Scope. 

In addition to this the Committee considered the desir- 
able fitness of having this parade occur on the anniversary 
date (as nearly as may be) of Hudson's discovery, accepting 
the reckoning of the Committee on Plan and Scope. It 
would appear that this parade on the Hudson should be 
the climax of the whole Celebration. Your Committee is, 
therefore, of the opinion that the interest of the public can 
be best sustained in the three days' successive exercises by a 
change in the order as now proposed, so as to have the 
Naval Parade the last and, so to speak, crowning event. 

The Committee, therefore, submits the following res- 
olutions for your action : 

^^ Resolved, That the celebration exercises as outlined in 
the report of the Committee on Plan and Scope be held on 
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 21st, 22nd and 23rd 
days of September, 1909. 

''Resolved, That the programme of the celebration be 
changed in order of events, placing those suggested in 
the Committee's report for the second and third days re- 
spectively on the first and second days and changing the 
Naval Parade to the third and last day, September 23rd, 
thus bringing the programme in the following order : 



August 22, 1906 159 

"First: On Tuesday, the 21st, the land parade and 
literary exercises. 

"Second : On Wednesday, the 22nd, the dedication of 
memorials. 

" Third : On Thursday, the 23rd, the Naval Parade, with 
illumination and display of fireworks following in the 
evening." 

Respectfully submitted. 

Wm. McCarroll, Chairman. 
N. Taylor Phillips. 
Louis C. Raegener. 

New York, August 22, 1906. 

Mr. McCarroll moved that the report be received. 
Carried. 

The report being before the board for discussion* 
Admiral Coghlan said that while the Committee on Naval 
Parade had not yet had a formal meeting, he had given the 
proposed course from New York to Newburgh Bay and 
return some consideration, and he thought that it might 
not be practicable for the naval procession to go so far and 
return in time for an illumination the same evening. "We 
will have some very large vessels in that parade," he said, 
"and they will have to be very careful about going up, par- 
ticularly in one place were they will have to string out in a 
very long line. I think that it will be necessary to take two 
days — a day to go up the river and a day to come down." 

Mr. Sackett suggested that if it were in accord with 
Mr. McCarroll's views the report which the latter had just 
presented be printed in the minutes and final action on the 
proposed resolution be deferred until a fuller meeting after 
the trustees had returned from their summer vacations. 
While there was nothing in the report that suggested any 
objection to his mind, yet the subject was one of such im- 
portance that it might be well to lay it before the whole 
board in the minutes with a view to evoking any suggestions 
that might occur to the members, For instance, September 
21 would be the autumnal equinox, which, according to the 
old rule, might be accompanied by a storm. Perhaps the 
rule was more honored in the breach than in the observance, 
but there might possil)ly be some other more serious 
objection to the dates suggested. 



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Mr. McCarroll said that it would be agreeable to him 
to have the report laid over till the next meeting, and he so 
moved. Seconded and carried. 

The Secretary reported that the names of several 
gentlemen had been proposed by different members for 
appointment either to the Commission or to the Board of 
Trustees, and that according to rule they had been referred 
to the Committee of Nominations. 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on 
Nominations, presented the committee's report recommend- 
ing the appointment of the following named gentlemen as 
members of the Commission: 

To be appointed by the Governor: The Hon. Henry 
Hudson, Mayor of the City of Hudson, N. Y. 

To be appointed by the Mayor: Mr. Archer M. Hun- 
tington of New^ York, the author and philanthropist, Pres- 
ident of the Hispano Museum, w^hich he has erected, and 
President of the American Archceological and Numismatic 
Society, to which he has donated a building site; Mr. 
Alphonse H. Alker of New York, a member of the New 
York bar. President of the Manhasset Yacht Club and 
son-in-law of Mr. Ward, founder of the Ward Steamship 
Line; Mr. George C Boldt of New York, President of the 
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Co., member of several large finan- 
cial institutions and patron of art; and the Hon. Edward 
M. Grout, late Comptroller of the City of New York. 

To be elected Trustees: Col. John Jacob Astor, Mr. 
Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Robert Fulton Cutting, Mr. George 
G. DeWitt, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. Wm. C. Muschenheim, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Mr. James 
Speyer and Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

The report was received, and upon motion the rec- 
ommendations concerning appointments by the Governor 
and Mayor were unanimously adopted. 

By ballot duly cast, the ten gentlemen nominated for 
Trustees were unanimously elected. 

The President reported that in accordance with the 
resolution adopted at the last meeting the following letter 
had been sent to the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment: 

New York, August 15, 1906. 
To the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. 

Dear Sirs : The undersigned constitute a Sub-Com- 
mittee on Park and Memorial at Invvood Hill of the Plan 



August 22, 1906 161 

and Scope Committee of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission. A report by the Sub-Committee to the Trus- 
tees of the Commission recommending a memorial either 
architectural or sculptural, to be placed on Inwood'HiU if 
It should be acquired for a park, has been approved by the 
Irustees, and the Sub-Committee has been authorized to 
take such steps as it may deem advisable to further the 
proposed plan. 

Herewith we enclose to you a printed copy of the 
minutes of the meeting of the Trustees held on July 2K 
last, which at pages 148-149 contains the report of the 
sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Inwood Hill 

Permit us on behalf of the Trustees to press the 'con- 
struction of the Hudson Memorial Bridge, and in connec- 
tion with It to submit and urge that about 75 acres of the 
northern portion of Inwood Hill be taken for a public 
park, not only because it is most suitable for such a 

P."S°'e T l^^^^^ ^""^ ^^^ ^^^ reasons mentioned in the report 
of the bub-Committee, but also because it will furnish a 
site unsurpassed for beauty and appropriateness for such 
memorial as may be hereafter adopted by the Hudson- 
t'ulton Celebration Commission. 

The Sub-Committe ventures to urge that early proceed- 
ings may be taken to make effectual the park plan if it shall 
be determined on. 

Submitting the matter for the favorable consideration 
as we hope, of your Board, we are, ' 

Yours respectfully, 

(Signed) Jno. E. Parsons, Chairman. 

Henry W. Sackett. 
George F. Kunz. 
W. J. Curtis. 
E. E. Olcott. 

The letter was ordered printed in the minutes and 
placed on file. 

The President read letters from Mr. C. R. Norman 
President of the Maritime Association of the Port of New 
York, dated August 9 and 16, and his answers thereto 
relating to Mr. Norman's suggestion that the Maritime 
Association be given representation on the Board of Trustees 
of this Commission, and said: 

"By the action taken this afternoon in making Mr 
Schwab a Trustee, the deficiency to which our attention 
has been called is partly rectified, and this in the person of 
a gentleman who is one of the leading shipping men in the 
port of New York.'' 



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The Sub-Committees, with the changes indicated, now 
stand as follows : 

NAVAL PARADE 

Rear-Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Mr. William J. McKay, Newburgh, N. Y. 
Rear-Admiral George W. Melville, U. S N., 615 Walnut 

street, Philadelphia, Penn. 
Mr. Jacob W. Miller, Pier 19 North River. New York. 
Hon. John H. Starin, 9 West 38th street, New York City. 
Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, 42 Broadway, New York City. 

LAND PARADE AND LITERARY EXERCISES 

Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, Gov- 
ernor's Island, New York. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett, 5 Nassau street, New York City. 

Gen. Horace Porter, 277 Madison avenue, New York City. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, 621 Fifth avenue, New York 
City. 

DEDICATION OF MEMORIALS 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty street, New 

York City. 
Col. William Jay, 48 Wall street, New York City. 
Hon. Seth Lo\v, 30 East 64th street. New York City. 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 5 West 76th street. New York City. 
Hon. William R. Willcox, General Post Office, New York 

City. 

PARK AND MEMORIAL AT INWOOD HILL 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William street. New 

York City. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, 49 Wall street. New York City. 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 401 Fifth avenue, New York City. 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Desbrosses Street Pier, New York City. 
Mr. George W. Perkins, 23 Wall street. New York City. 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Tribune Building, New York City. 

STATE PARK AT VERPLANCK's POINT 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Albany, N. Y. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hudson, N. Y. 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Tribune Building, New York 
City. 

DATE OF CELEBRATION 

Mr. William McCarroU, Chairman, 30 Ferry street, New 

York City. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 280 Broadway, New York City. 
Mr. Louis C. Raegener, r4i Broadway, New York City. 



August 2 2, 1906 16 



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The Secretary : "At the last meeting of the Board a 
resolution was adopted which authorized the President to 
appoint from time to time from the members of the Board 
of Trustees certain committees and sub-committees, con- 
sisting of such a number of the members respectively as he 
should deem necessary or desirable ; and I think, sir, unless 
you see some objection to the contrary, that it will be 
found desirable and useful, as the work goes on, to have 
the assistance upon committees of members of the Com- 
mission who are not themselves members of the Board of 
Trustees. I therefore move that in addition to the author- 
ity given at the last meeting, the President be authorized 
to appoint also from time to time, from the members of the 
Commission itself, certain committees and sub-committees, 
and consisting of such number of members respectively as 
he shall deem necessary or advisable." 

The motion was seconded and carried. 

The Secretary : "Mr. President, after the adjournment 
of the last meeting, Mr. Vanderbilt called the Secretary's 
attention to an extract from the Government report con- 
taining suggestions by United States Consuls abroad, in- 
cluding one from Consul Murphy, at Bordeaux, with re- 
gard to an exposition to be held in Bordeaux from May to 
November, 1907, to commemorate the centenary of the 
first successful application of steam to navigation." The 
Secretary then read one or two paragraphs from the report. 

The President : " I also received a letter this morning, 
saying that there is to be an International Maritime Ex- 
position at Bordeaux from May until September next, in 
recognition of what Robert Fulton did, and asking 
me to accept membership upon the American Com- 
mittee, as the President of this Commission. If none 
of you see any objection to this, I will accept the appoint- 
ment, but I hardly want to represent you officially without 
your authority." 

Mr. Proctor moved that it is the sense of this Commis- 
sion that the President accept this invitation. Carried. 

The President : " I will write the Committee thanking 
them for the honor they have done me, and expressing my 
great pleasure in serving with Admiral Coghlan." 



164 Minutes of Trustees 

The President read a letter from the Hon. Henry Hud- 
son, Mayor of the City of Hudson, N. Y., dated July 28, 
suggesting the appointment to the Commission of Mr. R. 
Fulton Ludlow, of Claverack, N. Y., an artist, whose grand- 
mother was a daughter of Robert Fulton; and Mr. Herman 
Livingston, of Catskill Station, N. Y., a descendant of 
Chancellor Livingsto*n and schoolmate of President Roose- 
velt. 

Mr. Bayard L. Peck said that he knew Mr. Livingston 
personally and Mr. Ludlow very well by reputation and he 
thought that their appointment would be eminently fit. 
He therefore nominated them and the names were referred 
to the Committee on Nominations. 

Mr. Proctor nominated Col. William Cary Sanger of 
Sangerville, Oneida County, for appointment to the Com- 
mission. Col. Sanger, he said, was a man of great ability. 
He was Assistant Secretary of War, and had just returned 
from doing a great duty for our country as a delegate to 
the Red Cross Society Congress in Switzerland. 

The name was referred to the Committee on Nomi- 
nations. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 



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Celtbratiou Conimt00ion 



Sncorporatcb hp 

Chapter 325 of tijc llatoss of 1906 

of tfje 

^tate of JSeto §oxk 



Wo arrange for tfjc "Commemo= 
ration of tt)c ^erCentenarp of 
ti)c BisJcobcrp of tfjc ||ub£(on 
3^ibcr i)j> J^enrp J^ubson in tt)e 
pear 1609, anb of tije jFirSt 
Mfit of ^team in tfje i^abigation 
of siaib riber bp l^obert Jf ulton 
in tlje pear 1807." A i^ A A 



Minutes of September 26, 1906. 



1 66 

0liittv^ antr Committees. 

(Revised to Ski'TEmber 26, igc6.) 



Preside^/: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New Yoik. 
I ^ice- Pres id en is : 
Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 
Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Morris K. Jesup, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistant Secrelarv: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executiz -e Com m it tee : 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Vice-Chairman, 4^ Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 

Rear Adm.j.B.Coghlan, U.S.N. Herman Ridder, 
William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett. 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick VV. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wtn. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Far^je, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Miller, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, John E Parsons, 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Seth Low, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Law: 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-oj/icio. 

Com?nittee on Abominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway. New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. William McCarroll. 



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Minutes of 



Trustees' Meeting 



September 26, 1906 

The sixth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission was held at headquarters in the 
Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, September 
26, 1906, at 3 P. M. 

Present : Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. John C, Eames, 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, Hon. William W. Goodrich, Mr. Ed- 
ward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Mr. William 
J. McKay, Mr. Jacob W. Miller, Mr. William C. Muschen- 
heim, Mr. Ludwig Nissen, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr, 
Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward and Gen. 
James Grant Wilson. Mr. H. F. Stone, private secretary 
of Col. John Jacob Astor, was also present. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from the 
following named gentlemen, and they were excused : Adm. 
Joseph B. Coghlan, Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Samuel V. 
Hoffman, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. 
Seth Low, Mr. William McCarroll, Adm. George W. Mel- 
ville, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. 
C. A. Pugsley, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Mr. Herbert L. Satlerlee, Pres. J. G. Schurman, Mr. Gustav 
H. Schwab, Hon. John H. Starin, Hon. Andrew D. White, 
Hon. William R. WiUcox, Mr. Charles R. Wilson, Mr. 
Stewart L. Woodford and Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 

In the absence of the President, Vice-President Fred- 
erick W. Seward presided. 

The minutes of August 22, having been printed and 
sent to all the members^ were approved as printed. 



1 68 Minutes of Trustees 

Upon motion, duly carried, the printed minutes of July 
25 were amended by inserting on page 152 at the end of 
the seventh line the words (which were in the stenographer's 
minutes, but were inadvertently omitted in the copy for the 
printer): "The motion was duly seconded and carried." 

The Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N, Seligman, reported that the 
total contributions for the preliminary expenses of the Hud- 
son Ter-Centenary Joint Committee amounted to $1,850. 
All indebtedness which had accrued prior to the incorpora- 
tion of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
amounting to $1,773.09, had been paid, leaving a balance of 
$76.91 on hand, which had been remitted to him as Treas- 
urer of this Commission by the Treasurer of the Joint 
Committee. He also stated that a formal requisition had 
been made upon the State Treasurer for $5,000 of the 
$25,000 appropriated for the purposes of this Commission, 
and that the funds were expected to be in hand within a 
few days. The report was received and ordered on file. 

The Assistant Secretary stated that in his correspond- 
ence with the Comptroller in regard to using the money 
appropriated by the State for the purposes of this Com- 
mission he had submitted a form of voucher which 
required the approval of the person who had contracted 
the indebtedness, the certificate of the Chairman of the 
Finance Committee as to the correctness of the bill, and 
the approval of the President and Secretary of the Com- 
mission, before the bill could be paid. This form of voucher 
had been approved by the Comptroller. He therefore 
moved that the President appoint a Finance Committee of 
three, the Chairman or either other member of which shall, 
upon the authority of the majority of the Committee, 
certify to the correctness of vouchers. The motion was 
duly seconded and carried. 

The President subsequently appointed as such Com- 
mittee Elon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Warren Higley and 
Mr. William McCarroll. 

The Assistant Secretary presented for payment the 
following bills which had been incurred since the incorpo- 
ration of the Commission, and moved that they be 
approved for payment, subject to the approval of the 
Finance Committee : 



September 26, 1906 169 

Sept. I. E. H. Hall, part payment on account of 

salary from April 28 to August 31 $76 91 

Sept. I. E. H. Hall, disbursements, April 

28toAugust3i $64 02 

Sept. I. E. H. Hall, balance of salary, 

April 28 to August 31 777 25 841 27 

May 4. Polhemus Ptg. Co., 500 manila envelopes 3 25 

II. " 400 oath of office 6 00 

j6. " 1,000 manila envelopes 6 25 

18. " I binder for Assistant Secre- 

tary 60 

22. " 500 copies minutes of May 4- - 15 90 

23. " 2 binders for President and 

Secretary i 20 

25. " 500 copies minutes of May 17. 14 10 

25. " I binder for Chairman of Law 

Committee 65 

31. " 1,250 letter heads 5 50 

June 13. " ink, mucilage, etc 4 25 

15. '• 500 copies minutes of May 23 19 90 

19. " 50 copies report 5 35 

26. '' 500 copies minutes of June 13 25 50 
July II. " 1,000 envelopes . 3 25 

16 " 500 copies minutes of June 27 24 20 

16. • 1,000 letter heads 4 75 

24. " 1,000 manila envelopes 6 25 

Aug. 28. " 500 copies minutes of July 25. 19 00 

Sept. 4. " I cash book for Treasurer 4 60 

14. '■ 500 copies minutes of Aug. 22 19 00 

20. " 150 Treasurer's receipts 2 00 

2 1. Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings. 

May, June, July and August 6 93 

May 31. Irving Press, electrotypes i 80 

June 14. J. J, Conlon, lettering office door 9 75 

30. Tiffany & Co., seal 75 00 

Total $1,203 16 

The motion was duly seconded and carried. 
A communication was read from the Executive Secre- 
tary of the Mayor of the City of New York, dated Septem- 
ber 10th, 1906, and addressed to the Secretary, stating that 
the Mayor, in accordance with the recommendation of this 
Commission, had appointed Mr. Archer M. Huntington, 
Mr. Alphonse H. Alker, Mr. George C. Boldt and Hon. 
Edward M. Grout members of the Commission. 

The Secretary also reported that the following letter 
had been received from the Secretary of Governor Hig- 
gins : 



I/O Minutes of Trustees 

State of New York, 
Executive Chamber, 

Albany, September 12th, 1906. 
Hon. Stewari' L. Woodford, 

President Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Bld'g, New York City. 
My Dear Gen. Woodford : Governor Higgins directs 
me to acknowledge your favor of the 6th instant, suggesting 
the addition of the name of Hon. Henry Hudson, Mayor of 
Hudson, N. Y., to the membership of your Commission. 
The Governor has noted this suggestion and wishes me to 
assure you that he will bear it in mind when making any 
additional appointments. 

Very respectfull}^ yours, 
(Signed) Frank E. Perley, 

Secretary to the Governor. 

The Secretary reported that on September 6th, 1906, 
the President of this Commission had written to Governor 
Higgins the following letter in regard to the necessity and- 
expediency of requiring an oath of office to be taken by 
members of this Commission. 

September 6, 1906. 
His Excellency Frank W. Higgins, 
Governor, 

Albany, New York. 

Dear Sir : When our Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission was organized, the Chairman of our Law 
Committee advised me that under Section 2 of the Public 
Officers Law our trustees were officers required to take the 
oath specified in Section 10. Blanks were accordingly pre- 
pared and the oath was taken by a number of the trustees. 
Afterwards some very excellent lawyers among the trustees 
questioned both the necessity and the expediency of re- 
quiring this oath. Its exaction has fallen into disuse and 
the Secretary of the Commission only holds the oaths of 
about half our number. We are now getting to work act- 
ively. Should our plans be approved by the state and city 
governments, considerable expenditure may be required, 
and it becomes my duty to see that there is no question 
about the legality of our organization. While I am en- 
tirely willing to assume all necessary responsibility at any 
time, I ought not myself to decide this detail of organiza- 
tion. 

May I ask you to refer this letter to the Attorney-Gen- 
eral with request for his opinion as to my duty in requiring 
or waiving this oath by our trustees. 

Very truly yours, 
(Signed) Stewart L. Woodford. 



September 26, 1906 171 

In reply to the foregoing letter the President had 
received from the Governor a copy of the following 
letter from the Attorney-General : 

State of New York, 
Attorney-General's Office, 

Albany, September 14, 1906. 
Hon. Frank W. Higgins, 

Governor, Executive Chamber, 

Albany, N. Y. 

Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a communication from 
Mr. Perley transmitting letter of Hon. Stewart I.. Woodford, 
inquiring whether the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission are officers required to take and 
file oath as provided in Section 2 of the Public Officers' 
Law and in Section 10 of the same law. 

I beg to say that I am of the opinion that these officers 
are not required to take and file an oath. 

I return Mr. Woodford's letter herewith. 
Yours respectfully, 

(Signed) Julius M. Mayer, 

Attorney -General. 

Mr. Fitch moved that those who had resigned from the 
Commission because they could not, consistently with 
their other obligations, take the Public Officers' oath at 
first believed to be necessary, be requested to withdraw 
their resignations. The motion was duly seconded and 
carried. 

A communication was received from the American 
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society concerning the 
preservation of Inwood Hill, accompanied by photographs, 
and a plan suggested by Mr. Louis E, Jallade based upon 
a topographical and historical map drawn by Mr. Reginald 
Pelham Bolton. 

Mr. Sackett, while appreciating the value of the data 
contained in Mr. Bolton's painstaking map of the region, 
said that he thought that the elaborate and formal plan 
of treatment suggested in Mr. Jallade's design accompany- 
ing this communication would destroy the original purpose 
in creating this park, which was, to preserve Inwood Hill 
as nearly as possible in its natural condition. He expressed 
the earnest hope that the design should not be recommended 
to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. 

After other members had expressed themselves briefly 
on the subject, the communication was referred to the 



172 Minutes of Trustees 

Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Invvood Hill for 
their information. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee, reported that there had been no meetings of that 
Committee since the last rneetingof the Board of Trustees, 
but that it had received several communications, all of 
which would be carefully considered. 

Mr. Seligman stated that it was the intention of the 
President of this Commission to sail in a few days for 
Italy, and he moved that the Secretary communicate to 
Gen, Woodford the sincere wish of his colleagues on the 
Board of Trustees for a safe voyage, a pleasant stay and 
a speedy return. The motion was duly seconded and 
unanimously adopted. 

There being no further business, the meeting ad- 
journed. 

On the following day, September 27, 1906, the Presi- 
dent, under authority of Section 5 of Article II of the By- 
Laws, in writing designated Vice-President Herman Ridder 
to perform his duties and possess his powers as President of 
the Commission during his absence abroad and until his 
return. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hail, 

Assistant Secretary. 



173 



Celebration Commi00ion 



3lncorporatcb bp 

Cfjaptcr 325 of tfje lima of 1906 

of tfjc 

^tate of Jgeto gorfe 



Ko arrange for tfjc "Commemo= 
ration of tfje CerCentenarp of 
t\)t Bigcoberp of tije J^ubson 
2iaibcr b|) J^cnrp l^ubsion in tlje 
pear 1609, anb of tfje jfirst 
Wi^t of ^team in tfje j^abigation 
of siaib riber bp i^obert jf ulton 
in tbe pear 1807." (^ A i^ s^ 



minutes of* October 24, 1906. 



174 

0llictv^ anb Committees. 

(Revised to October 24, igc6.) 



Frt-s/detrf: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New Yoik. 

Vice-Presidtnits: 
Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 
Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate. Hon. Levi I'. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland. Gen. Horace Porter. 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

Morris K. Jesup, Wm. B. Van Rens'selaer, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 

Secretary: Assistant Seeretarv: 

Henry W. Sackelt, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York 

Executi7 e Couniuttee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York. 
Hon. William W^ Goodrich, Vice-Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 

James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. loseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 
Rear Adm.T.B.Coghlan, U.S.N. Herman Ridder, 

William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick \V. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall. J. Edward Simmons. 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Siarin, 

Morris K. Jesup. Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask. 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Fartje, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

William McCarroll. Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Miller, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

I. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Com III it tee on Law: 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, Chairman, 49 Wall Street, New York. 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The VxesxA^ni, ex -officio. 

Committee on iVominaiions: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. Chairman, 280 Broadway. New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. William McCarroll. 



175 

General Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Cha.rman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich, John E Parsons, 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Seth Low, The President, ex-officio. 

Sub-Committee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mr. William J. McKay, Mr. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Admiral George W. Melville, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Sub-Committee on Land Parade and Literary Exej'cises : 

Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 

Governor's Island, New York. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub- Committee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. W^illiam Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Suh-Comtnittee on Park and ALemorial at Lnzvood: 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Subcommittee on State Park at Verplanck's Point: 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Sub- Committee on Date of Celebration: 
Mr. William McCarroU, Chairman, 30 Ferry Street, New York City. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Louis C. Raegener. 



176 



llutision Jfulton Celebration Commisfsiion. 



Herbert Adams. 
lohn G. Agar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Col. John Jacob .4 star. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
fanies M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. Willian! Bcrri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
George J'. Broiuer. 
Dr. K. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Hush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Killer Cariy. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry 11'. Cannon. 
Andreiu Carnegie. 
Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 
Sir Caspar Piirdoti Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Re a r Adm. J. B. Cogh la n . 

E. C. Converse. 

Walter Cook. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

E. D. Cummings. 

William J . Curtis. 

Paul D. Cravath. 

Robt. Fulton Cutting. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. DeWitt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyvesa nt Fish . 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 
Thomas Powell Fo~<i'ler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles .S. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Hon.William W. Goodrich. 

George J . Gould, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 



George F. Gregory. 
Henry E Gregory. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edward Hagantan Hall. 
Benjamin F". Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. li'arren Hi^ley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel VerplanckHoffinan 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H. H ubbard . 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. li illia >n Jay . 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. Geore;e F. Kunz. 
John LaFargc. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry A/. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Loiv. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 

f f 'illia m McCa rroll. 

Donald McDonald. 

William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 

Rear-Ad. Geo. It'. Melville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W Miller. 

Hon. Warner Miller. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogden Mills. 
J . Pierpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham Morris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Wm C. Muschenheim. 

C. H.Niehaus. 

Ludwig Nissen. 

W. R. O'Donovan. 

Eben E. Olcott. 

William Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'Sullivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 

Ho?i. Samuel Parsons, Jr. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Howland Pell. 

Geo. W. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 
[Names of Trustees in italics. 



Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelitis A . Pugsley^ 

Louis C. Raegener . 

Her matt Riddcr. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W. Sackett. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Herbert L. Sailer lee. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn. 

Prcst. Jacob G. Schurman. 

Gustav H. Schivab 

Isaac N. Seligman. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seivard.. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Then. H. Silkman. 

/. Ediuard Sitnmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

E. V. Skinner. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer 

Hon. John. H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde Stetso?i. 

Louis Stewart. 
Jatnes Stillman. 

Wm. L. Stone 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. I'heodore Sutro. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Spencer Trask. 

C. y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Aaron I'anderbilt. 

Alfred G. I'anderbilt. 

Cornelius I'anderbilt. 

Rev. Dr. Henry I'an Dyke. 

Warner Van Norden. 

Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 

Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John II'. I'rooman. 

Hon. Chas. G F. Wahle. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon W. L. Ward. 

Edward Wells, Ji. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

J. Du Pratt White. 

Fred C Whitney. 

Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

Stewart L. Woodford. 

Hon Timothy L. II 'oodruff. 

W. E. WooUey. 

James A. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

October 24, 1906 

The seventh meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, New Yorfc City, Wednesday, 
October 24, 1906, at 3 p. m. 

Present : The Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Vice- 
President, presiding ; and Mr. George V. Brower, Mr. 
Theodore Fitch, Hon. William W. Goodrich, Mr. Henry 
E. Gregory, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, Mr. Charles R. 
Lamb, Mr. William J. McKay, Rear-Admiral George W. 
Melville, U. S. N., Mr. Louis C. Raegener, Mr. Henry W. 
Sackett, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, Col. John W. Vrooman, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson and Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall. 

Mr. Carl Bitter, President of the National Sculpture 
Society and Chairman of the Committee appointed by the 
Architectural League of New York, in response to the 
recommendation of the Plan and Scope report (page 120) 
to offer suggestions in regard to the form of memorial to 
be erected in Inwood Park, was present by invitation. 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Acting 
President Herman Ridder, who had been summoned by 
President Roosevelt to the White House, and from Mr. 
Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. H. W. Cannon, Mr. W. J. Curtis, 
Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Seth Low, 
Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Mr. Herbert L. 
Satterlee, President J. G. Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. 
Schwab, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Francis Lynde Stet- 
son, Dr. Samuel B. Ward and Hon. Andrew D. White, and 
they were excused. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved as printed. 

The report of the Treasurer was read, as follows : 



178 Minutes of Trustees 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, 

Gentlemen : 

Following is a statement of the condition of the 
finances of the Commission, October 24, 1906 : 

SUBSCRIPTION FUND. 

Receipts. 
1906 
Sept. 17. From J- P- Morgan & Co., balance of 
fund subscribed for preliminary ex- 
penses $76-91 

Disbursements. 
Voucher 
A. 10. E. H. Hall, part payment on account 
..of salary from April 28 to August 
31. 1906 76-91 

STATE FUND. 

Receipts. 
1906 
Sept. 26. From State Treasurer, part of $25,000 
appropriated by Chapter 325 of the 
Laws of 1906 -- $5,000 00 

Disbursements. 
Voucher. 

1. E. H. Hall, balance of salary and dis- 

bursements toAugust 31st - ^841.27 

2. Polhemus Printing Co., printing — 191.50 

3. Henry Romeike, Inc , clippings 6.93 

4. Irving Press, electrotypes 1.80 

5. J.J. Conlon, lettering office door — 9.75 

6. Tiffany & Co., seal --- 75.00--$!, 126. 25 

Balance on hand October 24, 1906.. $3'873-7S 

Respectfully submitted 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

The Assistant Secretary presented the following bills 
to be approved for payment : 



October 24. 1906 179 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing- . $35-25 

Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings in Sept.. 1.08 

De-Fi Manufacturing Co., carbon paper 3.50 

A. B. King & Co., printing 7.00 

E. H. Hall, disbursements .. $18.96 

E. H. Hall, salary, Sept. and Oct 416.66 — 435-62 



1482.45 

Upon motion of Mr. Raegener, the bills were ordered 
paid, subject to approval by the Finance Committee. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nomina- 
tions, presented a report recommending that the Governor 
be respectfully requested to appoint the following named 
gentlemen as members of this Commission : 

Mr. R. Fulton Ludlow, of Claverack, N. Y. 

Mr. Herman Livingston, of Catskill Station, N. Y. 

Col. William C. Sanger, of Sangerfield, N. Y. 

The leport was adopted and upon Mr. Fitch's motion 
it was voted to request the Governor to make the appoint- 
ments as recommended. 

Mr. Sackett stated that Vice-President Herman Rid- 
der, whom the President of the Commission, General 
Woodford, had designated in accordance with the by-laws 
to act as President during General Woodford's absence 
abroad, had intended to be present at this meeting, but 
had been summoned to the White House by President 
Roosevelt and was thus unable to attend. In conversation 
a few days ago, Mr. Ridder had expressed to Mr. Sackett 
some of the things which he had in mind and which he 
would have brought before the meeting if he had been 
present. Mr. Ridder felt strongly that the time was ripe 
for the Commission to take up actively such arrangements 
for the celebration in 1909 as required considerable time 
for preparation. 

One of the things which, he thought, should no longer 
be delayed was the invitation to foreign powers to partici- 
pate in the Naval Parade. This subject had been brought 
to the attention of President Roosevelt by the Committee 
which called upon him February 10, 1906, and the Presi- 
dent expressed his willingness to be the medium of com- 
municating the invitation. The details of this feature 



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should be taken up and proper invitations extended 
through the President of the United States, 

Another feature recommended by the Plan and Scope 
Committee was the reproduction of the Half Moon and 
Clermont. Mr. Ridder had pointed out that this would 
take considerable time, not only for the arrangements with 
those who should undertake the construction of the fac- 
similes, but also for research, preparation of designs, and 
the actual construction itself. If these very interesting 
objects are to be had, something ought to be done at once 
to set the preparations afoot. 

A third feature, upon which Mr. Ridder laid even 
more emphasis, if possible, was involved in the plans of the 
New York City Government for Inwood Park, the Henry 
Hudson Memorial Bridge, and other things in that connec- 
tion. There was now apparently a deadlock between the 
Municipal Art Commission and the Engineering Depart- 
ment of the city in regard to the design of the bridge. 
The original design had been deprived of its artistic fea- 
tures with a view to reducing the cost, and the Municipal 
Art Commission had disapproved of the modified design 
as unworthy of the city and the purpose which the bridge 
was expected to serve. The Commissioner of Bridges, Mr. 
James W. Stevenson, was reported to have declared that he 
would not have another plan prepared, and preparations for 
building the bridge appeared to be at a standstill. Mr. 
Ridder thought that this Commission might act advan- 
tageously as an intermediary and persuade the city authori- 
ties to meet the views of the Municipal Art Commission. 

Mr. Sackett stated that in this connection he had 
given to Mr. Ridder the substance of an interview which 
he had recently had with the members of two Hudson 
River Associations, which were much interested in the 
plans for the Hudson Memorial Bridge and Inwood Park. 
These gentlemen had asked if this Commission would not 
find it advantageous if they would undertake to secure 
from the owners options for one year on the 60 or 75 acres 
of land needed for Inwood Park, with a view to keeping 
the land from falling into the hands of speculators and to 
making its acquisition by the city at a reasonable price 
more practicable. Mr. Sackett believed that it would be 



October 24, 1906 181 

wise for the Commission to avail itself of this suggestion. 
The gentlemen referred to could secure options at lower 
prices than others because they could show that it was to 
their mutual interest. 

Then there was the question of the memorials in the 
way of architecture or sculpture contemplated in con- 
nection with the bridge and park, and Mr. Ridder thought 
that that was a matter concerning which the proper com- 
mittee should be actively at work. With reference to this 
subject, Mr. Carl Bittei', President of the National Sculp- 
ture Society and Chairman of the Committee of Cooper- 
ation appointed by the Architectural League of New York, 
had come to this meeting to secure information on which 
to base intelligent recommendations to this Commission. 
Those whom Mr. Bitter represented were willing to 
cooperate, but they wanted to know how much ought to be 
expended and what should be the nature of the works. 

Still another matter which had been laid over un- 
decided was the date of the celebration. Admirals 
Coghlan and Melville thought that the Naval Parade 
would require two days, and this might modify the plan of 
the sub-committee on date, which would probably make 
further recommendations. As to the week already recom- 
mended, it appeared from official information recently 
obtained from the meteorological authorities of the federal 
government that the idea of equinoctical storms was a 
popular superstition without foundation in fact, and that 
the week of the autumnal equinox was not likely to be 
more inclement than any other week about that time of 
the year. 

Upon these subjects Mr. Ridder wanted the Board to 
take action so as to get the wheels moving as soon as pos- 
sible. 

Judge Goodrich asked if the President had not ap- 
pointed sub-committees on the various features of the 
Plan and Scope Committee's report. 

The Secretary answered in the affirmative. (See list 
of committees on pages 162 and 175 of printed minutes.) 

Judge Goodrich thought it would be wise to ask these 



1 82 Minutes of Trustees 

committees to confer among themselves with a view to 
setting the arrangements in active motion. 

The Secretary moved that the President be requested 
to call together all the sub-committees on Plan and Scope 
for a conference, with a view to submitting such definite 
recommendations at the next meeting of the Trustees as 
would warrant a full attendance of both resident and out- 
of-town members. Carried. 

Judge Goodrich stated that Mr. James M. Beck, a 
distinguished member of the Commission, had made the 
suggestion that arrangements be made for a permanent 
exhibitionof all methods of ancient and modern locomo- 
tion ; and he moved that the President be requested to ap- 
point a committee on that subject, of which Mr. Beck 
should be chairman. Carried. 

Gen. Wilson asked what action the Commission had 
taken in regard to the offer of Mr. Francis Bannerman to 
erect a statue of Hudson on Polopel's Island. 

The Assistant Secretary replied that on June 27 
(pages 137 and 139) the offer had been referred to the sub- 
committee on Dedication of Memorials, and that on June 
:;o Mr. Bannerman had withdrawn his offer, on the ground 
that so much time had elapsed since he made it and his 
affairs had so changed in the meantime that it would not 
be convenient to carry out his former plan. 

Some discussion ensued as to the advisability of form- 
ally inviting the representatives of one or two art socie- 
ties 10 meet with the Plan and Scope Committee. 

Mr. Lamb thought that if any such invitation were 
given it should be extended to all of the art societies, some 
fourteen in number, represented in the Fine Arts Federa- 
tion He feared that otherwise the action of the Commis- 
sion might be misconstrued. If, questions in which the 
Commission was interested should come up before the 
Municipal Art Commission, the help of the Fine Arts Fed- 
eration would be of great value in straightening out the 

tangle. 

Mr. Raegener thought that a formal invitation was 
unnecessary, as the sub-committees could invite such ad- 
vice as they deemed desirable. 

A letter from Mr. John Y. Cuyler, of New York, dated 



October 24, 1906 18 



o 



October 5, 1906, recommending that the Half Moon be 
reproduced in the Naval Parade, was referred to the sub- 
committee on that subject. 

A letter from Mr. J. J. McKelvey, of New York, Secre- 
tary of the Park District Protective League, dated Octo- 
ber 16, 1906, communicating the opinion of Mr. Amory 
Coffin, an engineering expert, concerning the Hudson Me- 
morial Bridge, was referred to the Sub-Committee on 
Inwood Park. 

A letter was read from the Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Deputy Comptroller of the City of New York, dated Oc- 
tober 16, 1906, transmitting a copy of the following reso- 
lution adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 
October 10, 1906 : 

Resolved, That the resolution adopted by this Board 
at meeting held June 20, 1906, authorizing a lease of Room 
No. 605 in the Tribune Building, at the northeast corner of 
Nassau and Spruce Streets, Borough of Manhattan, for 
the use of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
for a period of one year from the date of occupation, at an 
annual rental of One Thousand Dollars, payable monthly ; 
the lessor to furnish light, heat, elevator and janitor ser- 
vice; the rental to be paid out of the appropriation made 
by the City of New York for the expenses of said Com- 
mission, be and the same is hereby amended by omitting 
the clause, "the rent to be paid out of the appropriation 
made by the City of New York for the expenses of said 
commission." 

Mr. Phillips explained that with the elimination of the 
clause mentioned in the resolution the rent can now be 
paid from the general appropriation for rents. 

In this connection the Secretary called attention to 
the fact that the furniture now used in the Commission's 
headquarters was borrowed and the chairs were liable to 
be called for at any time. 

Judge Goodrich moved that the Secretary be author- 
ized to buy suitable furniture for the Commission at a cost 
of about $350. Carried. 

The Assistant Secretary stated that in response to a 
notice sent to the President he had represented the Com- 
mission at the hearing before the Board of Estimate and 
Apportionment on October 8, with reference to inserting 



184 Minutes of Trustees 

the item of rent of headquarters in the annual budget, and 
that the item had apparently received favorable action. 

A letter was read from Mr. Henry Clay Weeks, of 
Bayside, L. I., dated October 23, 1906, recommending the 
erection of a new Federal lighthouse at Stony Point, as a 
memorial of Gen. Anthony Wayne, to be dedicated in 
1909. Referred to the Committee on Memorials. 

There being no further business, the meeting ad- 
journed. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



i85 



||ub0Cin dFuIton 
Celebration Commi00ion 



3lncorporateb tip 

Cfjapter 325 of tije Hatosf of 1906 

of tfje 

^tate of igehj gorfe 



Co arrange for tfjc " Commemo= 
ration of tfje CcrCentcnarp of 
tije Bisicobcrj) of tfje ?|ubs;on 
Briber bp l^enrp J^ubsion in tfje 
pear 1609, anb of tfje Jfirsft 
®£fe of ^team in tfje J^abigation 
of gaib Tiber bp i^obert Jf ulton 
in tlje pear 1807." A ^ A A 



]VIinute§ of IVovember 26 and 2§, 1906. 



1 86 

Officers! anb Committees. 

Revised to November 26, 1906.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents: 
Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 
Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasure}': 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 

Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Committee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 

James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 
Rear Adm.J.B.Coghlan, U.S.N. Herman Ridder, 

William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencex Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Millet, Hon. W^m. R. Willcox, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Committee on Law: 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Abominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Pittance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway. New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. William McCarroll. 



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General Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, John E Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, ex-officio. 

Sub-Committee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mr. William J. McKay, Mr. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Admiral George W. Melville, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Sub-Committee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 

Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 

Governor's Island, New York. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub- Committee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Lnwood: 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William. Street, New York City 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub- Committee on Date of Celebration : 
Mr. William McCarroll, Chairman, 30 Ferry Street, New York City. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Louis C. Raegener. 

Sub-Committee on Exhibition of Motive Power: 
Mr. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York City. 



|^ubfi!on=jrulton Celebration Commission. 



Herbert Adams. 

John G. A^ar. 

R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alphonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Col. Joh}i Jacob A star. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 

Geo. Wm. Ballou. 

Theodore M. Banta. 

Col. Franklin Bar tie tt. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

James M. Beck. 

August Belmont. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. William Berri. 

Hon. Frank S. Black. 

E. W. Bloomingdale. 

George C. Boldt. 

Reginald Pelham Bolton. 

Hon. l>3vid A. Boody. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 

George /'. Bro7ver, 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 

William L. Bull. 

Henry K. Hush- Brown. 

Hon. E. H. Butler. 

Hon. J. Rider Cady. 

John F. Calder. 

Hon. J H. Callanan. 

Henry W. Cannon. 

Andreui Carnegie. 

Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. 

Hon. George C. Cl.uisen. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 

Hon. Grover Cleveland. 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan. 

E. C. Converse. 

Walter Cook. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

E. D. Cummings. 

William J. Curtis. 

Pa ul D. Cra vath. 

Robt. Fulton tutting. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. De U 'itt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

fohn C, Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyvcsant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch, 

Winchester Fitch. 

Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Poivcli Foivler. 

Austen G. Fox 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 



George F. Gregorj'. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
Hon. Edward M. Grout. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner .S. Haight. 
Edivard Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Higley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I'erptanck Hoffman 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay. 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Geti. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. Georee F. Kunz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry .1/. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. V. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
William McCarroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J . McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W Miller. 
"Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig. -Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Lez'i P. Morton. 
Wm C. Muschenheim. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Ltid-.i'ig Nissen. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'SuUivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. W. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Pk 1111/5. 
George A. Plimpton. 
[Names of Trustees in italics.} 



Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henrj' C. Potter. 
Thomas R. Proctor. 
Hon. Cornelitis A . Pugsley. 
Louis C. Raegener. 
Herman Ridder. 
William Rockefeller. 
Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
Col. Wm. C. banger. 
George Heniy Sargent. 
Herbert L. Salter lee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Pr est. Jacob G. Schurman. 
Gustav H. Sch^vab 
Isaac N. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Frederick 11'. Seward. 
Hon. William F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
/. Edward Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. lohn C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer 
Hon. John. H. Star in. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
Jajucs Stillman. 
Wm. L. Stone 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
A a ron I a nderbilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. 
Warner Van Norden. 
Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W Vroontan. 
Hon. Chas. G F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C.Whitney. 
Hon. JVilliam R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. lames Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L.Woodruff, 
W. E. WooUey. 
James A. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

November 26, 1906 

The eighth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held by special call at 
headquarters in the Tribune Building, New York City, 
Monday, November 26, 1906, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present : Mr. Herman Ridder, Acting President, pre- 
siding ; and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. William Berri, 
Rear-Admiral J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N.; Mr. Theodore Fitch, 
Major-General Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A.; Hon. Warren 
Higley, Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mr. William 
McCarroll, Mr. William J. McKay, Mr. William C. Mus- 
chenheim, Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Dr. 
Eugene H. Porter, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Frederick 
W. Seward, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, Gen. James Grant 
Wilson and Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 
Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for inability to attend were received from Mr. 
Henry W. Cannon, Mr. Morris K, Jesup, Dr. George F. 
Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. 
Eben E. Olcott, Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, 
President J. G. Schurman, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Dr. 
Samuel B. Ward and Mr. Charles R. Wilson, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes A f^p roved. 

The minutes of the seventh meeting of the Trustees, 
having been printed and sent to all the members, were ap- 
proved as printed. 

Hon. Wtn. IV. Goodrich's Death Announced. 

The Acting President stated that it was his melan- 
choly duty to announce to the Board the death of their 
distinguished colleague, the Hon. William Winton Good- 
rich, formerly Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division 
of the Supreme Court, Second District, of the State of New 



190 Minutes of Trustees 

York, who had died on November 21 after a brief illness 
from pneumonia. 

Mr. Parsons moved that a committee be appointed to 
draft a suitable expression of the Commission's sense of 
its loss in the death of Judge Goodrich, to be presented at 
the next meeting. Carried. 

The Acting President appointed Mr. Parsons as Chair- 
man of the committee, with power to select his associates. 

Mr. Parsons subsequently selected Mr. Henry W. 
Sackett to serve with him. 

Treasurer s Report^ November ^6, 1906. 

The report of the Treasurer was read as follows : 

Previous Balance. 

Balance on hand as per report of October 24 $3,873.75 

Disbursements. 
Voucher. 

7. Polhemus Printing Company, printing 

and stationery $35-25 

8. Henry Romeike, clippings in Septem- 

ber ... 1.08 

9. De-Fi Manufacturing Co., box of carbon 

paper 3.50 

10. A. B. King & Company, printing 7.00 

11. E. H. Hall, salary for September and 

October and disbursements 435-62 482.45 

Balance on hand November 26, 1906 $3,39^-30 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved. 
The Assistant Secretary presented the following bills 
to be approved for payment : 

T. G. Sellew, office furniture $333-5o 

Arnold & Constable, rug 58.15 

H. W. Sackett, paid for screen 10.00 

Clarence Bonynge, stenographic reports, July 25 

and August 22 3400 

Henry Romeike, press clippings in October 24 

Polhemus Printing Company, stationery and print- 
ing 24.75 

E. H. Hall, disbursements ^i3-59 

E. H. Hall, salary for November 208.33 221.92 

$682.56 



November 26, 1906 191 

The bills were ordered paid, subject to the approval of 
the Finance Committee. 

Appropriation for Furniture Increased. 
The Assistant Secretary moved that the allowance for 
office furnishings, fixed at $350 in Judge Goodrich's 
motion at the last meeting, be increased to $500, the 
amount stated in the requisition on the State Comptroller. 
He stated that at the close of the last meeting Judge 
Goodrich had said that he thought that the amount he had 
named on the spur of the moment was inadequate, and that 
he would move the increase at the next meeting. The 
motion was carried. 

Nomination for Appointment to Commission. 
Mr. Berri nominated Mr. Frederick R, Cruikshank, of 
No. 50 Pine Street, New York, for recommendation to the 
Mayor for appointment as a member of this Commission. 
Mr. Cruikshank is head of the real estate and insurance 
firm of F. R. Cruikshank & Co. and resides at Nyack-on- 
Hudson. The nomination was seconded and referred to 
the Committee on Nominations, 

Letter from Governor Higgins. 
The Acting President stated that on October 25 he 
had communicated to Governor Higgins the nominations 
of Mr. Robert Fulton Ludlow, Mr. Herman Livingston and 
Col. Wm. C. Sanger for appointment as members of this 
Commission, in addition to the nomination of Hon. Henry 
Hudson, previously communicated by President Woodford, 
and that in the same letter he had inquired if Governor 
Higgins had heard from the Governor of New Jersey in 
regard to nominating gentlemen for appointment on this 
Commission. In reply he had received the following : 

State of New York, 

Executive Chamber, 
Albany, November 8, 1906. 
Hon. Herman Ridder, 

2 Tryon Row, New York City. 
My Dear Mr. Ridder : 

Upon my return to Albany I find your letter of October 
25th, and note your desires in relation to the appointment 
of Messrs. Ludlow, Livingston and Sanger. I have deferred 



192 " Minutes of Trustees 

action in relation to Mr. Hudson,* as I did not think it was 
wise to make one appointment at a time. 

In relation to the communication from the Hon. Stewart 
L. Woodford of June 29th, permit me to state that Governor 
Stokes informed me on July 7th that he would take the 
matter up and act upon it in the near future. I have since 
that time seen Governor Stokes and again called the matter 
to his attention, and received a similar reply. I will again 
write to him to-day and will advise you as soon as I 
receive any further information on the subject. 

With most sincere regard, I am, 

Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Frank W. Higgins. 
Conference of Plan and Scope Committee. 

The Acting President stated that, pursuant to the reso- 
lution adopted at the last meeting, he had called together 
the Plan and Scope Committee and its sub-committees for 
a conference at the headquarters on Thursday, Nov. i, at 
3:30 p. m., the results of which would appear in the reports 
of sub-committees about to be presented. He then called 
for the report of the Sub-Committee on Naval Parade. 
Report of Su /'-Committee on Naval Parade. 

Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of that committee, pre- 
sented the following report : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 

The Sub-Committee on Naval Parade met at the office 
of the Commission in the Tribune Building at 3 p. m., 
Friday, November 16. 

Present : J. B. Coghlan, Aaron Vanderbilt and W. J. 
McKay. 

Notices were received from the other members of the 
Committee, regreting their inability to be present. 

After a discussion and consideration of the affairs 
before the Committee, the following preliminary report is 
submitted. 

The Committee is of the opinion that to have a naval 
display in keeping with the historical facts that the Com- 
mission is formed to celebrate, at least two days should be 
set aside for the naval parade, and that the time alloted to 
the naval display should be the last two days of the cele- 
bration, instead of the first day. 

Upon an examination of the waters of the Hudson 
from New York to the upper reaches of the river, the Com- 
mittee finds that the only place where large ships, in fleet, 
can be properly maneuvered, after once going up the river, 
is the reach abreast Newburgh commonly known as New- 

*After the Trustees' meeting the Acting President was informed 
that Messrs. Hudson, Ludlow, Livingston and Sanger had been 
appointed members of the Commission on November 8. 



November 26, 1906 193 

burgh Bay. There is a broad reach of water off Haver- 
straw, but the actual navig-able channel is only about ^ of 
a mile wide, and the soundings at mean low water show a 
depth of 4 to 5 fathoms in this channel. The reach off 
Newburgh averages from ^ to ^ of a mile in width, with 
water varying from 5 to 7 fathoms in depth. This reach is 
about 5 miles long. 

It is too far for the fleet to proceed to Newburgh and 
return on the same day. The Committee, therefore, recom- 
mends that the vessels designated to go up the river anchor 
at night in Newburgh Bay, have an illumination of the 
ships on that night, and be prepared to deliver the "Half 
Moon " and "Clermont " to vessels coming from Albany, 
in order that they may be taken to the City of Albany. 
The fleet of men-of-war and other vessels will then return 
from Newburgh, anchor off New York and be prepared to 
take part in the grand illumination of the entire fleet on 
the second night. All vessels anchored off New York will 
be requested to illuminate each night of the celebration. 

The Committee recommends that the Slate Depart- 
ment of the United States be requested to extend to foreign 
governments an invitation to participate in the celebration, 
by sending men-of-war to take part in the naval display, 
or in such other way as they mav desire. 

The railroad companies, steamboat and steamship 
companies centering in this city will be informed in due 
time to make arrangements facilitating travel of the public 
when the Commission decides upon the exact dates of the 
celebration. 

Regarding the following items : 

ist. Location and construction of the ceremonial 
water gate. 

2d. Location and construction along the water front 
of proper landing for visiting men-of-war and others ; and 

3d. Securing from the American Society of Mechani- 
cal Engineers and from other sources the plans, etc., of the 
" Half Moon " and " Clermont," to permit estimates to be 
made of the time and cost of construction, the Committee 
desire still further time. 

During the winter season the Committee will be able 
to assemble all its members with more frequency and the 
business before the Committee will be advanced more 
rapidly at the future meetings. 

(Signed) J. B. Coghlan, 

Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., 
Chairman, 
for the Committee. 

Admiral Coghlan verbally supplemented his written 
report by saying that the Committee had given a good 



194 Minutes of Trustees 

deal of thought to the subject, particularly to the capability 
of the river to accommodate large vessels. In regard to 
the number of naval vessels available, they found the 
United States Government would be able to anchor from 
30 to 35 men-of-war off New York. These would comprise 
18 large battle ships, and the remainder would be cruisers 
and smaller vessels. 

Concerning the proposed naval procession up the 
river, they found that, owing to the narrowness of the 
channel in certain places, as, for instance, off Nyack, it 
would be impossible for the fleet to proceed in double 
column. Such as went up the river would have to go in 
single column. 

He also said that, while it would be possible to take a 
single big ship up the river, it would be impracticable to 
take the whole fleet up with safety to itself and to the 
multitude of private craft which would crowd the river and 
over which the commander of the fleet would have no con- 
trol. He thought it feasible, however, to take up a detach- 
ment of the big vessels, swing them at their anchors in 
Newburgh Bay, and bring them down again with perfect 
safety. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the Plan and Scope Com* 
mittee, said that his Committee would be glad to have a 
copy of Admiral Coghlan's report to assist them in pre- 
paring a supplementary report on Plan and Scope. He 
moved that the report of the Sub-Committee on Naval 
Parade be accepted with thanks. Carried. 

Suggestion to Extend " Half Moons " Itinerary. 

A communication from Dr. George F. Kunz was read 
suggesting that when the "Half Moon " shall have com- 
pleted its journey as far northward as its prototype sailed^ 
its journey be continued through the Erie Canal to Buffalo^ 
and, if possible, visit certain of the lake ports. This would 
create a greater interest in the entire celebration and would 
do much to educate people throughout a larger section of 
the country. He quoted the Hon. Charles M. Dow, Presi- 
dent of the Niagara Commission, as stating that it would 
be possible to obtain 20 or 30 Indians from the State 
reservations to take part in these proceedings. Referred 
to the Committee on Naval Parade. 



November 26, 1906 195 

A Century Between Clermont and Turbine. 
A communication was read from Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt 
quoting the following paragraph from the " London Engi- 
neer " of Sept. 21, 1906 : 

" It may be remarked that the employment of the 
marine steam turbine in the largest vessel the world has 
seen coincides in point of time and to a nicety that is 
striking with the initiation of steam navigation. Next 
year, when the " Mauretania " and the " Lusitania " will be 
plying on the greatest of ocean routes, will mark the 
hundredth anniversary of the placing into daily service by 
Fulton on the Hudson of the pioneer steamship " Cler- 
mont." 

Ordered on file. 

Description of Original Clermont. 
A communication from Mr. Winchester Fitch, in re- 
sponse to an inquiry from the Commission, was read, as 

follows : 

200 West 8ist Street, N. Y., 

30th October, 1906. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, Esquire, 

Asst. Secretary, Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission, 
Tribune Building, N. Y. 
My Dear Sir : 

In response to your question in favor of the 29th I find 
it stated in several works that the famous "Clermont" 
built by Fulton in 1807, was finally broken up. It is fully 
described by Admiral Preble in his " History of Steam 
Navigation," p. 52, and by Samuel Ward Stanton in his 
"American Steam Vessels," p. 12, which gives a page 
cut of the Clermont ; but the dimensions are not given 
exactly the same in these two works. The hull was of 
wood, built by Charles Brown; length, 130 or 133 feet ; 
breadth of beam, 18 or 18^ feet ; depth of hold, 6 or tYz 
feet. The engine was built by Boulton and Watt in Eng- 
land ; diameter of cylinder, 24 inches by three or four feet 
length of piston stroke. It was stored for some time for 
non-payment of charges near the Collect Pond, where John 
Fitch experimented with his boat in 1796 and 1797. 

The boiler was of copper, low pressure, 20 feet ; height, 
7 feet; width, 8 feet. 

Wheels, 15 feet in diameter, 8 buckets to each wheel, 4 
feet in length ; dip, 2 feet. 

Speed, nearly 5 miles an hour. 

Stanton says the " Clermont '' was overhauled and en- 
larged during the winter of 1807-8, and the name changed 



196 Minutes of Trustees 

to "North River" ; but that after making trips as a passenger 
steamer for several years it was finally broken up. It is 
probable that the smaller dimensions as given herein are 
those of the original boat ; the larger ones those of the 
enlarged boat. 

There is a model of John Fitch's Ohio River boat built 
before 1798 in the collection of the Ohio Archaeological and 
Historical Society in the Ohio State University at Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 

At Stevens Institute, at Hoboken, are preserved the 
engine of the boat in which Commodore Stevens crossed 
from the Battery to Hoboken in 1804, which was tried forty 
years later and made eight miles an hour, and also a later 
vessel. 

Hoping that this will aid you, believe me. 
Truly yours, 
(Signed) Winchester Fitch. 

Referred to the Sub-Committee on Naval Parade. 

Report of Sub-Committee on Land Exercises. 

Gen. Grant presented a verbal report in behalf of his 
Sub-Committee on Land Exercises. He stated that, while 
the individual members had given the subject thought, he 
had been unable to assemble his committee, owing to the 
fact that he had been absent all summer in camp, and since 
then had been moving around on inspection duty. He 
would convene his committee at once. He said that the 
military parade could be arranged with comparative ease 
as soon as it was known what organizations would par- 
ticipate. The right of the line would be given to the 
United States troops ; next would come the bluejackets ; 
then the State troDps and other organizations according to 
the well-established rules of seniority. 

General Grant and Admiral Coghlan, representing the 
Army and Navy, indulged in an interchange of pleas- 
antries, in which Admiral Coghlan said that it had been 
suggested to his committee that the military parade be 
arranged for the opening day of the celebration, so that the 
militia might be released to enjoy the rest of the celebra- 
tion. The Navy was quite willing to take the last two 
days in order that the river demonstration might be the 
culmination of the festivities. 

Report of progress received. 



November 26, 1906 197 

Sig?ial Fires Along the Hudson Proposed. 

Mr. Berri suggested that on the night most convenient 
and appropriate large signal fires all along the Hudson 
River, at points designated by the Commission between 
New York and Albany, be lighted simultaneously by 
electricity by the President of the United States. At 
nearly every important point the entire length of the river 
these signal fires could be arranged so as to be visible, 
one to the other, and the whole river would practically be 
ablaze in honor of the event. Salutes could also be fired. 
Each signal fire, he said, would interest and attract the 
entire population within a radius of at least ten miles. It 
could be made a great local demonstration. Each com- 
munity in the vicinity of the officially designated signal 
fires would undoubtedly raise among themselves sufficient 
funds to cover expenses of the same, and there would 
probably be such a firework display at each point as to 
make the affair memorable and unique. The entire popu- 
lation of the Hudson River would thus practically be 
participants in our celebration, which would seem to be a 
most desirable thing to accomplish. It was also probable 
that in addition, the private firework displays along the 
river would greatly add to the brilliancy of the event. The 
illuminations of the homes and the vessels upon the river 
might safely be counted upon to do their share. Mr. Berri 
said that inquiries as to the practicability of the scheme in- 
dicated that it was entirely feasible, and would probably 
be comparatively inexpensive to the Comniission if the 
matter should be approved and taken up in time to secure 
the co-operation of the Hudson River communities. 

Referred to the Sub-Committee on Land Exercises. 
Memorial Lighthouse on VerplancJis Point. 

Mr, Bergen, from the Sub-Committee on the Dedica- 
tion of Memorials, reported that the data before his com- 
mittee concerning the memorials to be dedicated had not 
been sufficient yet to warrent definite recommendations. 
He said that he had been unable to convene his committee 
because one distinguished member (the Hon. Oscar Straus) 
had been chosen to the Cabinet of the President of the 
United States, one was absent and one w^as ill. With re- 
spect to the suggestion of Mr. Henry Clay Weeks, which. 



198 Minutes of Trustees 

had been referred to his committee, for a memorial light- 
house on Stony Point, he thought that if it could be 
arranged tactfully without exciting jealousies between the 
two sides of the rivers it might be advisable to ask the 
Government to erect it on the Verplanck's Point side, 
where it was proposed to establish the memorial state park. 
Report of progress received. 

State Park at Verplanck's Point. 

Mr. Seward, by request of Chairman Pugsley, reported 
for the Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point 
that the Committee had visited the Point on Thursday, 
November 8, and gone over the ground, but pending the 
receipt of a survey, which was under way, the Committee 
could not make a definite report. The most important 
part of the proposed park was the tip end of the Point, 
called the Battery, which contained the ruins of the old 
revolutionary battery. This embraced tv\'o or three acres. 
Next came the steamboat landing, which was one of the 
termini of the old King's Ferry. On Washington Hill, 
about a quarter of a mile back, was the place where Wash- 
ington pitched his marquee and received Rochambeau and 
the French troops on their return from the victory at 
Yorktown. This was connected with the Battery by a 
broad road, called Broadway, which could readily be con- 
verted into a parkway. These areas, 15 or 20 acres in all, 
could be obtained for a few thousand dollars. The Com- 
mittee, however, thought that this was not enough for a 
park. About 100 acres of extremely picturesque land, 
belonging to the Hudson River Brick Co., which was going 
out of business, was available at a reasonable price and 
would receive the consideration of the Committee. 

Mr. Seward said that there was already a lighthouse 
on the Federal reservation adjoining the State reservation 
on Stony Point. It stood on the site of the old magazine 
and was historically located and a conspicuous landmark. 
If the proposed memorial lighthouse were put on the bluff 
of Verplanck's Point, as at West Point, it would, in con- 
junction with its mate on Stony Point, indentify the narrow 
passage between Verplanck's and Stony Points beyond 
mistake by navigators. He believed that a boat was 
wrecked at Stony Point a few years ago through a mis- 
take as to its identity. 



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Mr. Seward moved that the Verplanck's Point Com- 
mittee and the Committee on Memorials be requested to 
confer on this subject. Carried. 

Report of Sub-Committee on Inwood Hill. 

Mr. Parsons, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Park 
and Memorial at Inwood Hill, reported that since the last 
meeting his Committee had made substantial progress with 
the matters referred to them. He said that on the recom- 
mendation of the Plan and Scope Committee it had been 
determined that an effort be made to acquire Inwood Hill 
as a public park and the site for an important construction. 
Inwood Hill, he said, was the northern extremity of Man- 
hattan Island. The portion which it seemed desirable to 
acquire comprised about 75 acres. It had an elevation of 
about 217 feet and was covered with primeval forests. Its 
appearance was almost the same as when Henry Hudson 
saw it. This Hill would be the southern abutment of the 
proposed Hudson Memorial Bridge across the Spuyten 
Duyvil Creek. 

Mr. Parsons then described briefly the situation in re- 
gard to the bridge and park and the efforts of his com- 
mittee to promote them, and expressed his hopefulness of 
a successful issue. 

Report of progress received. 

Report of Sub-Committee on Date. 
Mr. McCarroll, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on 
Date of Celebration, said that his committee had nothing 
further to recommend at present. They would take into 
consideration the report of Admiral Coghlan's committee 
and its recommendation that two days be devoted to the 
naval parade, and he had no doubt but that the views of 
the Committee on Date would accord with those of the 
Naval Committee. 

There being no further business, the meeting ad- 
journed. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

November 28, 1906 

The ninth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission was duly called, according to the 
By-laws, to be held at headquarters in the Tribune Build- 
ing, New York City, on Wednesday, November 28, 1906, 
at 3 p. M. 

It being the day before Thanksgiving Day, no quorum 
was present, and the meeting was adjourned without the 
transaction of any business. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



Celebration Commis0ion 



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0llittv9> and Committees. 

(Revised to December 26, 1906.) 



Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

J^ice-Presidents : 
Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 
Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 

Secretary: Assistaiil Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Coiiniiittee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 

James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 
Rear Adm.J.B.Coghlan, U.S.N. Herman Ridder, 

William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Millet, Hon. AVm. R. Willcox, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Comtnittee on Laiu: 
James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, ^x-^y^r/^. 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. William McCarroll. 



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General Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, ex-officio. 

Sub-Cotnmittee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mr. William J. McKay, Mr. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Admiral George W. Melville, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Sub-Co/nmittee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 

Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman. 

Governor's Island, New York. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub-Committee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Mr, Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Ltizvood: 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcoti, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y, 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub- Comviittee on Date of Celebration : 
Mr. William McCarroll, Chairman, 30 Ferry Street, New York City. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Louis C. Raegener. 

Sub-Committee on ExJiU>ition of Motive Power : 
Mr. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York City. 



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J|uti£;on=Jfulton Celebration Commisigion. 



Herbert Adams. 
John G. Agar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Col. John Jacob A star. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballon. 
Theodore INI. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
James J\f. Beck. 
August Belmont. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. Williani Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
George I'. Braver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Hush- Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Clevela7id. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan. 

E. C. Converse. 

Walter Cook. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

E. D. Cummings. 

William J . Curtis. 
Paul D. Cravat h. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

Hon. Chauncey ISL Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. DeWitt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Barnes . 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyvesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Pou<ell Fo'wler. 

Austen G. Fo-x. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 



George F. Gregory. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
Hon. Edward M. Grout. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edivard Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Hi^ley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I 'er/lanckHo/J'man 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugusi F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay. 
l\Iorris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Ge7i. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. Georg-e F. Kunz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefier. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
William McCarroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm C. Muschenheim. 
C. H.Niehaus. 
Ludwig Nissen, 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'SuUivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Jr. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. W. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
George A. Plimpton. 
[Names of Trustees in italics. 



Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 
Gen. Horace Porter. "^ 

Rt. Rev. Henrj' C. Potter. 
Thomas R. Proctor. 
Hon. Cornelius A . Pugsley. 
Louts C. Raegener. 
Hertiian Ridder. 
William Rockefeller. 
Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
Col. Wm. Cary ^aneer. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Herbert L. Sattcrlee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G. Sch urman. 
Gustav H . Schwab 
Isaac N . Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward. 
Hon. William F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
/. Edward Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. John C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer 
Hon. John. H. Starin. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
James St ill man. 
Wm. L. Stone 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Aaron I'anderbilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 
Warner Van Norden. 
Win. B. Van Rensselaer. 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B.Vreeland. 
Col. John W. I'rooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edviund H'etmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
FredC. Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Titnothy L.li oodrujr. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

December 19, 1906 

The tenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson. 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held pursuant to 
special call at headquarters in the Tribune Building, New 
York City, Wednesday, December 19, 1906. 

Roll Call 
Present : Mr. Herman Ridder, Acting President, pre- 
siding ; and Mr. George V. Brower, Rear Admiral Joseph 

B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. Theodore Fitch, Major-Gen. 
Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. 
George A. Hearn, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel Ver- 
planck Hoffman, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Mr. Charles R. 
Lamb, Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. William 

C. Muschenheim, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Cornelius 
A. Pugsley, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, President J. G. Schur- 
man and Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Excused for Absence 

Regrets for non-attendance were received from Mr. 
William Berri, Mr. Henry W. Cannon, Mr. William J. Cur- 
tis, Mr. George G. DeWitt, Mr. William J. McKaj^ Com. 
Jacob W. Miller, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Gen. Horace Porter, Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, Mr. Gustav 
H. Schwab, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Francis L. Stetson, 
Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, Col. John W. Vrooman, Hon, 
Andrew D. White and Hon. William R. Willcox, and they 
were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meetings of November 26 and 
November 28, 1906, having been printed and sent to all 
the members, were approved as printed. 

Ratification of Former Proceedings 

Mr. Fitch offered the following resolution : 

Whereas, The printed minutes of the meetings of the 
Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission held on July 25, August 22 and September 26, in 



2o6 Minutes of Trustees 

the year 1906, do not show the presence of a quorum ; 
therefore, 

Resolved, That the action taken by the Trustees 
present at those meetings, as shown in the printed minutes, 
be and the same is hereby approved, ratified and confirmed, 
and the same is hereby adopted at this meeting as the 
action of the Board of 1 rustees nunc pro tutu. 

Carried. 

Treasurer s Report 

The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
to the effect that there had been no disbursements since the 
last meeting, and that the balance in the treasury remained 
at $3,391.30, was read and ordered on file. 
Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, sub- 
ject to examination and approval by the Finance Com- 
mittee : 

J. B. McCarthy, stenographic services to 

Wm. W. Goodrich $14.40 

C. S. Morrell, boxes 4.65 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. . 26.00 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $13.20 

E. H. Hall, salary for December 208.33 — 221.53 

$266.58 
Greetings from President Woodford 

The Secretary stated that a letter received from Gen. 
Stewart L. Woodford, President of the Commission, dated 
Sorrento, Italy, November 26, 1906, expressed his continued 
interest in the preparations for the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration and requested that his friendly greetings be ex- 
tended to all his associates on the Commission. The 
Secretary was requested to reciprocate these sentiments in 
behalf of the Commission. 

Relations with Fulton Monument Association 

The Secretary stated that under date of December 4, 
1906, he had received a letter from the secretary of Mayor 
McClellan, asking, for the Mayor's information, whether 
the plans of tiie Robert Fulton Monument Association 
conflicted in any way with the plans of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission. His Honor especially desired to 
know whether the two organizations were working along 
the same lines. 



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The Secretary had replied under date of December 5, 
1906, to the effect that the first President of the Fulton 
Monument Association, Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, 
and the present President of that Association, Mr. Cor- 
nelius Vanderbilt, were both Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission ; that from previous statements 
by Gen. Grant there appeared to be no conflict, but, on 
the contrary, entire harmony between their plans ; but 
that an interview would be had with Mr. Vanderbilt, after 
which the Secretary would advise the Mayor further. 

Gen. Grant confirmed Mr. Sackett's statement by say- 
ing that the purposes of the two organizations were com- 
plementary to each other. The Fulton Monument Associa- 
tion started out to build a monument to Robert Fulton, 
which, if the Fulton descendants acquiesced, might also be 
a tomb. Their primary purpose was not to arrange a 
celebration. He thought that their work in raising money 
and erecting the memorial and the celebration of this Com- 
mission would work in with each other in entire harmony. 

Admiral Coghlan regretted that Mr. Olcott was not 
present to repeat what he had reported to the Fulton Monu- 
ment Association, to the effect tha*: there was a good pros- 
pect that the divergent views of the Art Commission of 
the City of New York and the engineers which were de- 
laying work on the Hudson Memorial Bridge would be 
composed, and that the suggestion that the Fulton Memo- 
rial be erected on Inwood Hill, in close proximity to the 
bridge, might be adopted. Admiral Coghlan thought that 
the plans of the Fulton Monument Association and this 
Commission would blend very well. 

Trades Organizations in the Celebration 
The Secretary read a letter dated December 12, 1906, 
from Mr. Nathan Newman, of 344 St. Ann's Avenue, New 
York, and Mr. John McParland, enclosing the following 
communication : 

To the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 

Gentlemen : Fully realizing the importance of the 
work your honorable body has in hand and believing that 
your efforts can secure the fullest measure of success only 
when aided by the hearty co-operation of all classes of 
citizens, we deem it our duty to point out that the securing 



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of such co-operation has been seriously endangered by 
what was evidently an oversight. In the past, bodies 
similar to the Commission were usually so composed as to 
give representation to all important classes of citizens, and 
that this custom has been departed from in the selection 
of the members of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission is, we think, a grave error. 

Apparently every class in the community except the 
wage-earning class is represented on the Commission, and 
we desire to call your attention to the fact that the suc- 
cess of the celebration, no matter what its form, lies largely 
in the hands of this class and without its co-operation suc- 
cess cannot well attend your efforts. 

The members of your honorable body, of course, are 
well aware of the important position held by organized 
labor in our state and city, and its right to represent labor 
is too secure and its position too important to be ignored. 

Inasmuch as the Commission possesses power to add 
to its number, we respectfully suggest that its impolitic 
and undemocratic make-up be so changed as to give or 
ganized labor the representation to which it is entitled. 

Referred to the Committee on Nominations. 

Official Flag Proposed 

The Secretary read a letter dated November 26, 1906, 
from Mr. Louis Annin Ames, a member of this Commission 
and member of the firm of Annin & Co., flag makers, 99 
Fulton Street, New York, suggesting the adoption of a 
distinctive flag for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. He 
stated that special Hags were designed for the Pan-Ameri- 
can, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark and other cele- 
brations, and he offered to exhibit these flags to the Com- 
mission and give any other information in possession of 
his house. Referred to a special committee of three, to be 
appointed by the Acting President. 

Tribute to the Late \Vm. W. Goodrich 

In the absence of Mr. John E. Parsons, chairman of 
the committee appointed to prepare a minute in memory 
of the late Hon. William W. Goodrich, Mr. Sackett, the 
other member of the committee, presented the following 
report : 

On November 21, 1906, after a short illness, died 
Hon. William W. Goodrich, a Vice-President of the Com- 
mission and one of its members from the beginning. 



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Born in Havana, N. Y., in 1833, and a graduate of 
Amherst College and the Albany Law School, he moved in 
1854 to New York, where, in the practice of admiralty law, 
he became one of the leading authorities in the country. 
He was twice a member of the Legislature, and subse- 
quently a member of the Board of Education of Brooklyn. 
In i888 he was appointed as one of the seven delegates 
from the United States to the International Marine Con- 
gress at the Hague ; in 1896 was appointed to the 
Supreme Court of this State, and in 1897 was named as 
Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division. With faculties 
unimpaired, he was retired because of the age limit, Janu- 
ary I, 1904, when he resumed the active practice of his 
profession. 

Judge Goodrich was eminent in his profession, dis- 
tinguished as a judge and useful in the community in 
which he lived as a public-spirited citizen. Action appro- 
priate to these relations has been or will be taken in his 
honor. It is for us to bear testimony to the important part 
which he took in the proceedings of the Commission and to 
the loss which it has suffered by his unexpected and un- 
timely death. 

The interest which Judge Goodrich took in our work 
was active and earnest. To our discussions he contributed 
the benefit of his exceptional intelligence, his long and 
varied experience and his great familiarity with everything 
pertaining to the subject. 

He was tenacious of his opinion, but he was always 
willing to listen to the views of others and to give to them 
deference and suitable consideration. 

His kindly manners and uniform courtesy attached to 
him all who knew him and made friends of those of us who 
first became acquainted with him in the prosecution of our 
work. His death means a loss which the Commission will 
not find it easy to repair. The members mourn and will 
miss him as a friend whose place it will be difficult to fill. 

Resolved, That we record this minute in our book of 
Minutes and that a copy be furnished to the family of 
Judge Goodrich, 

The minute was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. 
Report of Nomifiating Committee 

The Committee on Nominations reported through Mr. 
Fitch, chairman, recommending the election of Hon. Henry 
Hudson and Major-Gen. Charles F. Roe as Trustees, to fill 
vacancies ; 

Also the election of Mr, Francis Lynde Stetson as 
Vice-President, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
the late Hon. William W, Goodrich ; 



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Also the nomination of Mr. Frederick R. Crulkshank, 
of 50 Pine Street, New York City, for appointment by- 
Mayor McClellan to be a member of the Commission. 

The report was adopted. 

Election of Two Trustees 

It was voted that the Secretary be directed to cast a 
single ballot in behalf of those present for the Hon. Kenry 
Hudson and Major-Gen. Charles F. Roe to be Trustees, to 
fill vacancies. 

The ballot having been cast as directed, the gentlemen 
named were declared elected. 

The President announced that the number of Trustees 
now lacked but one of the 100 allowed by the Charter. 
Election of a Vice-President 

It was voted that the Secretary be directed to cast a 
single ballot in behalf of those present for Mr. Francis 
Lynde Stetson to be Vice-President, in place of the late 
Hon. Wm. W. Goodrich. 

The ballot having been cast as directed, Mr. Stetson 
was declared elected. 

Reconwiended for Appointment by the Mayor 

It was voted that Mr. Frederick R. Cruikshank be 
recommended to Mayor McClellan for appointment as a 
member of this Commission. 

Report of Cofnniittee on Land Exercises 

Gen. Grant, in behalf of the Sub-Committee on Land 
Parade and Literary Exercises, of which he was chairman, 
presented the following report : 

Your Committee on Land Parade and Literary Exer- 
cises have the honor to submit the following report : 

Your Committee met on December 3, 1906, and, after 
careful deliberation, came to the following conclusions : 

I. They recommend that the parade should be purely 
military and naval and that the following organizations be 
asked to participate : 

(a) The United States army. 

(b) The United States navy. 

(c) The organized militia of the States of New York 
and New Jersey. 

(d) That the organized militia of the other States be 
requested to participate, especially that of the adjoining 
States of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Penn- 
sylvania. 



December 19, 1906 211 

2. Two plans of route were discussed : 

(a) That the route should be so selected as to have the 
parade concentrate and terminate upon points where monu- 
ments or memorials of the events celebrated would be un- 
veiled or dedicated. 

(b) That a route should be selected over which the 
parade in passing would afford the greatest number of 
people an opportunity to see it, and which would be most 
convenient for them to come together and disperse. 

The second plan is the one recommended by your 
Committee, and, unless something in thefuture should make 
a change desirable, your Committee would advise that the 
participants in the parade assemble in the vicinity of Wash- 
ington Square and be dismissed at Grant's Tomb, passing 
over such route as the Grand Marshal may, at the time, 
find the most convenient for all concerned. 

3. It is recommended that the Grand Marshal be 
selected at a later date by this Committee. 

4. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees of 
this Commission at once take the necessary steps to cor- 
respond with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of 
the Navy and also the several Governors and State Legis- 
latures to secure ample appropriations for the transporta- 
tion, maintenance and all other expenses of the military 
organizations that participate in the parade. 

For the literary entertainment your Committee would 
recommend the following : 

(a) That the Metropolitan Opera House be secured 
and that an oration be delivered by some distinguished 
orator to be selected at a later date. 

(b) That the President of the United States and the 
surviving ex-President or ex-Presidents be invited to be 
present and to participate in the evening's proceedings. 

(c) That several of the most important musical organi- 
zations of this city be invited to furnisli the necessary 
music for the occasion, and 

(d) That the Governors and ex-Governors of New 
York and New Jersey and the Governors of the States 
which furnish troops to participate in the parade be in- 
vited to be present at the literary and musical entertain- 
ment, together with such other distinguished persons as 
may at that time be in or near the city. 

Gen. Grant supplemented his written report with a 
verbal statement concerning the various features suggested 
and intimated that the report was susceptible to amplifica- 
tion as the details of the plan were developed. 

An informal discussion of the report, in which ex- 
Mayor Low and others participated, followed, at the con- 
clusion of which the report was unanimously adopted. 



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Report of Committee on Inwood Park, etc. 
The Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Inwood 
Hill, Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, reported that since 
their last report of progress they had proceeded further 
with the matters specially referred to them, but that 
nothing definite had as yet been reached and they merely 
reported progress. 

The report was received. 

Report of Sub-Committee on Verp/a/ick's Point 
Mr. Hall reported for the Sub-Committee on State 
Park at Verplanck's Point that the Committee had secured 
estimates from a civil engineer for making a map of the 
property lines at Verplanck's Point to assist the Committee 
in forming its judgment, but the estimates were so high 
that no survey had been ordered. The Committee believed 
that it could get the necessary data in some other manner 
and hoped to make recommendations at the next meeting. 
There being no further business, the meeting ad- 
journed. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary, 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

December 26, 1906 

The eleventh meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was duly called, according 
to the By-Laws, to be held at headquarters in the Tribune 
Building, New York City, on Wednesday, December 26, 
1906, at 3 P. M. 

It being the day after Christmas, no quorum was 
present, and the meeting was adjourned without the trans- 
action of any business. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Cfjapter 325 of tfje HatoS of 1906 

of tfje 

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VLo arrange for tfje "Commemo= 
ration of tfje ^erCentenarp of 
tfje ©igcoberp of tfje J^ubsion 
Briber bp l^enrp J^ubson in tfje 
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of saib riber hp ^ohtvt Jf ulton 
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iniiiiites of January 23, 1907. 



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Herbert Adams. 
John G. Agar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Col. John Jacob .-is/or. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Co/. Franklin Bart let t. 
Dr. James C. Bavles. 
Hon. James M . Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Bo.^dv. 
Hon. Thomas W. Br<idley. 
George V. Broiver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
A ndreiv Carnegie. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Cl.iusen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear A dm. J. B. Coghlan. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank. 
Roht. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
George G. DeWitt. 
Hon. William Draper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 
George Ehret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Arthur English. 
Most Rev.'john M. Farley. 
Hon. J. SI oat Fassett. 
Barr Ferree. 
Stuyvesajzt Fish. 
Theodore Fitch. 
Winchester Filch. 
Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk. S. Flower. 
Thomas Poiuell Fowler. 
Austen G. Fox. 
Hon. Charles S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 
Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
George J. Gould. 



Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
Hon. Edward M. Grout. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edward Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F'. Hamilton. 
Geo. A . Hearn. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Higlcy. 
Hon. David B. Hilt. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I 'erplanckHoffman 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas //. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
T. D. Uuntting. 
A tigust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay. 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. Georze F. Kunz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles VV. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
William McCarroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milbzirn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W .Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont Morga7i. 
Hon. Fordham ^iorris. 
Ho}i. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm C. Muschenheim. 
C. H.Niehaus. 
L udivig JVissen 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church O.-^born. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bay a rd L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. /F. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
[Names of Trustees in italics. 



George A. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henrj' C. Potter. 
Thomas R. Proctor 
Hon. Cornelius .4 . Pugsley. 
Louis C. Raegener. 
Herman Ridder. 
William Rockejeller. 
Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Rvan. 
Henry II'. Sackett. 
Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Herbert L. Sattcrlee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G.Schurman. 
Gjistav H. Schwab 
Isaac N . Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward. 
Hon. William F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
J. Edward Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. John C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
J a mes Speyer 
Hon. John. H. Starin. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde .Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Wm. L. Stone 
Hon. Oscar S. .Stratis. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
S/>encer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Aaron Vanderbilt. 
.Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius I 'a nderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry fan Dyke. 
Warner Van Norden. 
Jl'tn. B. I'an Rensselaej-. 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W- I'rooman. 
Hon. Chas. G F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Ji. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrezv D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewart L. Woodjord. 
Hon Timothy L.I I oodruff. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James \. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meetino^ 

January 23, 1907 

The twelfth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, 
January 23, 1907. 

Roll Call. 
Present: Mr. Herman Ridder, Acting President, pre- 
siding ; and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. George V. Brower, 
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. William J. 
Curtis, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. George A. Hearn, Hon, 
Warren Higley, Col. William Jay, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, 
Mr. William McCarroll, Mr. William J. McKay, Com. Jacob 
W. Miller, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Ludwig Nis- 
sen, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Hon. N. 
Taylor Phillips, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick W. 
Seward, Col. John W. Vrooman, Gen. James Grant Wilson 
and Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. Henry 
Hudson, Dr. H. M. Leipziger, Mr. F. D. Millet, Hon. Seth 
Low, Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, U. S. N., Mr. E. E. Ol- 
cott, Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Mr. 
Morris K. Jesup, Mr. Spencer Trask, Pres. J. G. Schurman, 
Hon. Andrew D. White, Hon. C. A. Pugsley and Hon. Wm. 
Berri, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved without read- 
ing. 

Treasurer' s Report, January 23, 1907. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, as 
given below, was read and ordered on file: 



2i6 Minutes of Trustees 

Previous Balance. 
Balance on hand as per report of Dec. 19, 1906.. -$3, 391. 30 

Disbursements. 
Voucher. 

12. E. H. Hall, Asst. Secy., salary for No- 

vember and disbursements $221.92 

13. T. G. Sellew, furniture 333-5° 

14. Arnold, Constable & Co., rug 58.15 

15. Henry W. Sackett, paid for screen — 10.00 

16. Clarence Bonynge, stenographic re- 

ports 34-00 

17. Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings .24 

18. Polhemus Printing Co., printing and 

stationery 24.75 

19. J. B. McCarthy, stenographic ser- 

vices to Judge Goodrich 14.40 

20. Cornelius S. Morrell, boxes 4.65 

21. Polhemus Printing Co., printing 26.00 

22. E. H. Hall, salary for December and 

disbursements 221.53 $949.14 

Balance on hand January 23, 1907 $2,442.16 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, Treasurer. 

Bi7/s Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment out of 
the State appropriation, subject to examination and ap- 
proval by the Finance Committee: 

Polhemus Printing Co., 1,150 manila envelopes $6.75 

" 500 copies i2-pp. minutes, Dec. 19-26 — 19.00 

*' 1,000 letter heads 4-75 

*' 1,000 envelopes 3-25 

" One box pens -75 

" One quart mucilage .75 

T. G. Sellew, repairing chair 1.00 

E. H. Hall, salary for January $208.33 

" Disbursements 8.6 216.93 

$253.18 



The Assistant Secretary stated that the bills of The 
Tribune Association for rent of headquarters, for which 
provision had been made by the City of New York, had not 
been paid because they had been presented to the Comp- 



January 23, 1907 217 

troller direct and not through the Commission. He there- 
fore offered the following bill for approval, for payment by 
the City of New York, and it was approved : 

The Tribune Association, for rent of room 605 from 
June 13, 1906, to Dec. 31, 1906, at $1,000 per 
annum $550.00 

Appointed to the Commission by the Mayor. 

A communication dated December 28, 1906, from the 
Secretary of Mayor McCIellan, was read, appointing Mr. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank, of New York City, as a member 
of the Commission, upon recommendation of the Trustees. 

Communication from Mr. R. Fulton Ludlow. 
A communication dated Jan. 18, 1907, from the secre- 
tary of Mayor McCIellan, transmitting a letter dated Janu- 
ary II, 1907, from Mr. R. Fulton Ludlow, of Claverack (a 
member of the Commission), was received and both were 
read. Mr. Ludlow's letter said in part: 

LUDLOW HOMESTEAD, 
CLAVERACK, NEW YORK. 

January 11, 1907. 
Hon. George B. McClellan, 

City Hall, New York. 
Dear Sir : 

On account of being the grandson of Robert Fulton, 
you can readily understand how grateful I am, and not only 
this, but my three cousins as well, to the citizens of the 
world who are doing so much to perpetuate the memory of 
Robert Fulton's achievements. 

I appreciate exceedingly that the French Government 
is to have an International Exposition next year on these 
lines, as well as the fact that the President of the James- 
town Exposition is to reserve a day agreeable to the Rob- 
ert Fulton Monument Association, to honor our grand- 
father, but the thing that has touched our hearts most is 
the work that has been done by the Robert Fulton Monu- 
ment Association in its efforts to build a lasting memorial 
to the^memory of Robert Fulton. 

It has been the wish of this Association in connection 
with the Monument to remove Robert Fulton's remains 
from Trinity Churchyard and place them in the Memorial 
Tomb when completed. This has met with our approval, 
and some time ago Robert Fulton's four grandchildren ad- 



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dressed a letter to Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Asso- 
ciation, giving their consent to the removal of the body. 

The letter then refers to the decision of the Fulton 
Monument Association to lay the cornerstone of their 
memorial on Nov. 14, 1907, and to newspaper reports stat- 
ing that the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission had 
proposed a Fulton parade on August 11, 1907, and Mr. 
Ludlow asked that this parade be postponed to Nov. 14, 
the anniversary of Fulton's birth. 

The communication was referred to the Secretary with 
the request to inform Mr. Ludlow that the reports that 
this Commission was planning a Fulton parade for August 
II were erroneous. 

Trade-; Organizations in the Celebration. 
A communication, dated January 21, 1907, from Mr. 
Nathan Newman to the Secretary was read as follows (see 
page 207 of Minutes of December 19, 1906) : 

International Typographical Union Convention 
Souvenir Committee, 1907. 
Nathan Newman, 

Eastern Representative, 
344 St. Ann's Avenue. 

New York, January 21, 1907. 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Secretary, etc. 

Dear Mr. Sackett: Referring to our conversation 
anent the suggestion of desirable men connected with 
trades organizations as representatives on the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission, I believe Mr. Alfred J. 
Boulton, Register of King's County, would creditably fulfill 
any mission he may be assigned to in making the celebra- 
tion a pronounced success. Mr. Boulton is an active 
member of the Stereotypers' Union and many times has 
been honored by that organization. 

I am suggesting Mr. Boulton's name without his 
knowledge. 

Yours truly, 

Nathan Newman. 

Mr. Newman's communication was referred to the 
Committee on Nominations. 

Report of Sub-Committee on Memorials. 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman of the Sub-Committee 
on the Dedication of Memorials, reported that Mr. Henry 



January 23, 1907 219 

Clay Weeks, of Bayside, L. I., who had proposed a new 
lighthouse at Stony Point as a memorial of Gen. Anthony 
Wayne (see pages 184 and 197 of Minutes), had presented 
maps and photographs relating to the subject. Mr. Weeks 
had stated that he desired no conflict with those in charge 
of the Stony Point State Reservation, but still thought his 
plan was desirable. Mr. Bergen said that his committee 
would meet soon and present documents. Report of prog- 
ress received. 

Water Gate on Riverside Park. 

Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on 
Naval Parade, stated that his committee was still collecting 
data. 

Apropos of this subject. Commander Miller referred to 
his suggestion, July 25, 1906 (page 152 of Minutes), concern- 
ing a ceremonial Water Gate on the margin of Riverside 
Park, near Columbia University. He said that the City 
had no suitable landing place for the use of Government 
vessels and no proper place for receiving ashore dis- 
tinguished foreigners. The Battery, at the lower end of 
the island, would be the natural place for a ceremonial 
Water Gate, but on account of the dense traffic around the 
Battery there was no suitable anchorage there, while by 
law vessels where obliged to anchor off Riverside. In 
1906 a law was passed (Chapter 304 of the Laws of 1906), 
authorizing the City of New York to fill in the waterfront 
between the lines of ii6th street, 120th street, the Hudson 
River Railroad and the bulkhead line, and to enter into an 
agreement with the Trustees of Columbia University by 
the terms of which, if the University shall assume the ex- 
pense of this extension of Riverside Park, "any portion or 
portions of Riverside Park lying west of said route or road- 
way of the Hudson River Railroad Co. may be inclosed 
or set apart as an athletic field or fields, and for boat 
landing or boat houses for use and occupation by the 
Trustees of said Columbia College," etc. Mr. Miller had 
made an effort to get into conference with the Columbia 
authorities to see if they would not modify their Stadium 
idea so as to embody in the plan a Water Gate, a naval 
museum, an armory, and provision for the nautical school 



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ship St. Mary's. The result was that on 
Saturday, January 19, a conference repre- 
senting seven different interests was held at 
Columbia, and it was decided that the rep- 
resentatives would go back to their re- 
spective organizations and report, and see 
if they could be brought together. Two 
questions had come up : One was how 
large the joint committee should be, and 
the other was about getting a bill through 
the Legislature to authorize a modification 
of the Columbia plaft. He said that plans 
were being prepared by Palmer & Horn- 
bostle, architects, and would be presented 
as soon as completed. He asked authority 
for the expenditure of $1,000 for obtaining 
legal advice, traveling expenses to Albany, 
etc., in connection with the matter. 

Mr. Charles R. Lamb said that this same 
proposition concerning a Water Gate had 
been brought up in a slightly different form 
by President Butler of Columbia Univer- 
sity at a meeting of the Fulton Monument 
Association, and Gen. Grant had spoken of 
the necessity of getting that Association 
and this Commission together. Mr. Lamb 
asked if it were not best to find out where 
our friends of the Fulton Association stood. 
He thought that Riverside was undoubt- 
edly the best location for a Water Gate. 

Deputy Comptroller Phillips asked why 
any new legislation was necessary. He 
thought that the Dock Department, the 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment and 
the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of 
the City of New York had between them 
ample power in the matter. Part of the 
property desired is in the jurisdiction of 
the Dock Department and part in the juris- 
diction of the Departmentof Parks. "The 



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difficulty," said Mr. Phillips, " is that if you go to Albany 
for mandatory legislation for something which the City 
authorities already have power to do you would encounter 
the objection of many." 

Mr. Miller agreed with Mr. Phillips as to the power of 
the City authorities. 

Mr. John E. Parsons was asked by the President for 
his views and replied that he had not examined the legisla- 
tion in regard to the Stadium. In his mind arose the 
question whether the Legislature had not imposed such a 
trust as might require relief from some of its conditions to 
permit the modification proposed. He thought that the 
appropriate course would be to get the opinion of the Com- 
mittee on Legislation as to the necessity of any new law. 

Judge Higley moved that the matter be referred to the 
Committee on Legislation, to which Commander Miller 
could explain the situation. Carried. 

A Committee of Co-operation. 

Mr. Lamb moved that a committee be appointed to 
secure the co operation of this Commission and the Fulton 
Monument Association. 

Commander Miller suggested that the motion include 
the co-operation of any other bodies that think of acting 
with us. 

Mr. Lamb accepted the suggestion and the motion as 
put was that a committee be appointed to confer with the 
Fulton Monument Association and other bodies on any 
subject of common interest with a view to securing their 
CO operation. 

The motion was carried and the Acting President ap- 
pointed as such committee Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Com- 
mander Jacob W. Miller and Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Imuood Park — $1,000 for Expense . 
Mr. John E. Parsons presented a report from the Sub- 
Committee on Inwood Park. The report, after stating the 
progress made by the Committee in its investigation and 
the advisability of proceeding with a full knowledge of all 
the requirements of the proposed park, concluded with the 
recommendation that the Sub-Committee be authorized to 



January 23, 1907 223 

incur an expense of not to exceed $1,000 in obtaining the 
necessary plan and information 

The report was discussed at some length. Mr. Parsons 
expressed the opinion that the project would be greatly 
facilitated by procuring precise information and laying be- 
fore the Board of Estimate a concrete proposition, the pro- 
portions of which that Board could know exactly. 

Deputy Comptroller Phillips emphatically approved of 
Mr. Parsons' suggestion. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the report be adopted and that 
the Sub-Committee on Inwood Park be authorized to incur 
expense not to exceed $1,000. Carried. 

It was the general opinion of the Trustees that the 
consummation of the Park plan would be promoted by not 
giving publicity outside of the Commission to the text of 
the Sub-Committee's report at present; and, on motion of 
Mr. John E. Parsons, it was voted that the report be kept 
confidential by the Trustees until further instructions by 
the Board. Carried. 

Report of Sub-Committee on State Park at Verpla nek's Point. 

In the absence of the Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Chair- 
man of the Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's 
Point, the Hon. Frederick VV. Seward presented the report 
from that Committee. The opening paragraph of the re- 
port as read was as follows: 

"Your sub-committee on the proposed State Park at 
Verplanck's Point has the honor to submit this preliminary 
report, with the request that it be permitted to perfect some 
of the details before publication in the minutes. Since the 
report was originally drafted, a more detailed map of the 
property lines has been obtained, which will enable the 
Committee to formulate its recommendations more spe- 
cifically.^' 

The report as revised is as follows: 

To the Trustees of the Hudson- Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission: 

Your Sub-Committee on the proposed State Park at 
Verplanck's Point has the honor to report that it has made 
personal examination of the Point, and with the help of 
such maps as were obtainable and such information as was 



224 Minutes of Trustees 

to be had from the residents and owners of property 
there it submits the accompanying map and recommenda- 
tions. 

Verplanck's Point lies on the eastern shore of the Hud- 
son River, 25 miles north of the New York City line, and 
directly opposite Stony Point, the scene of Gen. Anthony 
Wayne's famous military exploit in 1779. 

About the year 1830, with a view to real estate develop- 
ments, Verplanck's Point was laid out as a city, to be 
called Verplanck, with streets and avenues somewhat like 
the city plan of New York. Most of the streets were laid 
out 60 feet wide, a few wider, and the avenues 80 feet wide, 
while Broadway is no feet in width. Of these streets and 
avenues, only one of importance, namely, Broadway, was 
ever constructed, but the plan is still used locally in the in- 
dication of property lines. 

The principal owners of the land on Verplanck's Point 
are the Hudson River Brick Company and the Bleakley 
family. On the accompanying map, the property of the 
Hudson River Brick Co. is indicated by diagonal cross 
lines. (Map on pages 220 and 221.) 

For convenience of description, we have arbitrarily 
divided the available property into ten parcels and com- 
puted the areas from the map. 

Parcel No. i is that portion of the Brick Co.'s property 
lying between ist and 6th streets along the shore on the 
southern side of the Point, and comprises approximately 
17 acres. 

Parcel No. 2 consists of the northwestern half of the 
two blocks bounded by 3rd and 5th streets, Westchester 
avenue and Broadway. It contains the residence and 
grounds of the King family, and comprises about 6f acres. 

Parcel No. 3 consists of the corresponding two half 
blocks between ist and 3rd streets, containing about 6| 
acres. It is a high bluff, overlooking parcels i and 4, and 
is the site of the Revolutionary Fort Fayette. It con- 
tains two residences, one a fine modern building and a 
barn, and belongs to the Bleakley family. It is one of the 
most sightly and attractive portions of the Point. 

Parcel No. 4 is known as the Battery. It is a level 
tract of about 6 acres, lying on the waterfront at the foot 
of the hill on which Fort Fayette stood, and contains the 
ruins of old stone buildings with loopholes for guns. It is 
exactly at the head of Haverstraw Bay, with a view look- 
ing southward through Haverstraw Bay and the Tappan 
Zee, a distance of twenty-five miles. Directly across from 
it is Stony Point, distant about half a mile. Directly be- 
low this property is the spot where Henry Hudson cast 
anchor on his voyage up the River. 



January 23, 1907 225 

Parcel No. 5 comprises the Steamboat Landing and 
belongs to the Bleakley family. This was one of the land- 
ings of the old King's Ferry across which the armies of 
three nations and all the leading figures of the Revolution- 
ary period passed during the war for Independence. A 
wharf on Stony Point occupies the site of the other termi- 
nal of the Ferry. This plot comprises about 4 acres. 

Parcel No. 6 is composed of the Brick Company's 
property northwest of Broadway and extending along the 
river front as far as 6th street. It is high, bold land and 
commands a beautiful view up the river into the southern 
gate of the Highlands between the Dunderberg and An- 
thony's Nose. It contains about 30 acres. 

In parcel No. 7 we have included the Brick Co.'s prop- 
erty lying northwest of Broadway between 6th and 13th 
streets, amounting to about 27^ acres. 

Parcel No. 8 is the Brick Co.'s property between West- 
chester avenue, Broadway, 8th and nth streets, including 
about 18 acres. 

Parcel No. 9 is the adjacent area between Westchester 
avenue, Broadway, nth and 13th streets, owned by the 
Brick Co. and embracing about 13 acres. This area was 
laid out on the plan of Verplanck as Washington Park. It 
is the highest land in the vicinity, with bold and pictur- 
esque outcroppings of rock. Here stood Washington's mar- 
quee when he received Rochambeau and the French army 
after the battle of Yorktown in 1781. The troops of the 
victorious allies were encamped round about. This land 
is now used for pasturage. 

Parcel No. 10 is the remainder of the Brick Co.'s prop- 
erty lying between Westchester avenue, Broadway, 13th 
and 15th streets, and between Broadway, Highland 
avenue, 13th and i8th streets. It contains about 45% acres. 

The committee was informed by some of the owners 
of the property in question that the Bleakley property was 
held by that family at $35,000 and that the Hudson River 
Brick Company was willing to sell the whole of its hold- 
ings at 175,000, making a total of $110,000 if all of these 
parcels except the King property (No. 2) were taken. If a 
part only were taken, it would be about on the basis of a 
thousand dollars for each acre on the waterfront and $500 
to $700 per acre for portions further back. Presumably 
the King property could be obtained at about the same rates. 

Your committee recommends the taking of parcels 
Nos. I, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9, embracing a total area of about 
105 acres. If, as is thought likely, the whole of the Brick 
Co.'s property can be obtained at the same price as for the 
parts we have indicated, then the whole might be taken; 
but your committee is of the opinion that the 105 acres 



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above suggested is the least that it is desirable to include 
in the Park. This, it will be seen by the map. is all con- 
tiguous territory. It includes all of the principal water 
front of the Point and a link (parcel No. 7) connecting the 
portion at the river side with Washington Hill (No. 9). 
This connection will permit of a drive connecting all parts 
of the reservation independently of Broadway. This area 
would also include not only the most salient topographic 
features of the Point, but also the localities of chief historic 
interest — the site of Fort Fayette, the Battery, the Ferry 
landing, Washington's Hill and the Camp Ground. 

The scenery is unrivaled, since the Point commands a 
view up the Highlands as far as the Dunderberg and 
Anthony's Nose, as has already been slated, and down the 
River through Haverstraw Bay and Tappan Zee. A deep 
channel extends along the shore. And the land, contain- 
ing, as it does, shore and bluff, level plain and rocky hill, 
is diversified in character and well adapted for treatment 
by the landscape architect. 

The Park would be about 25 miles north of the New 
York City line and would be accessible both by steam- 
boat and railway. A trolley line extends from the New 
York Central Railroad station at Peekskill through Mont- 
rose to Verplanck's Point, a distance of four miles, and it 
is stated that a spur of the New York Central Railroad is 
contemplated from Cruger's station to Verplanck's Point, a 
distance of two miles. 

Your committee strongly recommends the purchase of 
this area as being in the interest of the State. It will give 
the State a property which will probably increase in value, 
and if not taken by the State, may be sold at even a greater 
price to manufacturing companies, some of whom are bid- 
ding for portions of it. 

The project of this Park is not a novel experiment, but 
may be regarded as the rounding out and completion of 
the act of the State in making a reservation for a State 
Park on Stony Point which has proved so popular on the 
west side of the river. The two reservations, directly op- 
posite each other and connected by the old King's Ferry, 
combine historical associations and scenic advantages in a 
way not duplicated elsewhere along the Hudson. 
Respectfully submitted, 

Cornelius A. Pugslev, 

Chairman, 



January 23, 1907 227- 

Col. Jay asked if the Sub-Committee had visited Ver- 
planck's Point in person. 

Mr. Seward replied that it had. 

Col. Jay said that according to his recollection it was 
not a very attractive spot and he had some doubt as to the 
advisability of the plan for a park there. There seemed to 
be a blight upon the river between Sing Sing and Peeks-- 
kill. He thought it would be a mistake to have a park on 
the end of a point miles and miles from everything attrac- 
tive. This point would be isolated and surrounded by brick- 
yards, etc., and it seemed to him as if many more beautiful 
places with attractive surroundings were available. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons, former Commissioner of Parks 
of the City of New York and now Landscape Architect of 
the Parks, was asked by the President for his views on the 
recommendation of a park at Verplanck's Point. In reply 
he said he thought it was an excellent idea. There was no 
question in his mind as to the suitabilit}^ of the area for a 
park. It was admirably adapted for landscape treatment 
and had sufficient diversity of topography to lend itself 
well to the purposes for which it was intended. He thought 
100 acres none too much. 

Mr. Seward said that Verplanck's Point was the ruin 
of an enterprise formed many years ago for a summer 
resort. Then the Point was laid out into streets and ave- 
nues as indicated on the accompanying map, but Broadway 
was the only street that had actually been constructed. 
Since then the brick industry had risen, flourished and gone 
to rack and ruin. It was true that it was a dilapidated 
and desolated tract, spoiled by a half century of gravel 
pits and clay yards : but this property could not have been 
bought during the past 50 years for five times the present 
price. The place had been selected not only because of its 
adaptability for landscape treatment but also because of its 
sightly location and its historic interest. It was half of 
the natural gateway which separated Haverstraw Bay on 
the south from Peekskill Bay on the north. Down the 
river it commanded a view for 25 miles through Haver- 
straw Bay and the Tappan Zee, and up the river the range 
of view extended into the entrance of the Highlands. As 
it was the complement of Stony Point topographically, so 



228 Minutes of Trustees 

it was historically. It was the site of Fort Fayette, whose 
fortunes were inseparably connected with the fort on Stony 
Point. It was the eastern terminus of the famous King's 
Ferry, one of the most important connecting links between 
the colonies during the Revolution. It was the site of 
Washington's headquarters after the surrender of York- 
town in 1781 and the place where the American and French 
armies met upon the return of the latter from the South. 
Off this point Henry Hudson's " Half Moon " anchored, and 
altogether the place was of very great interest. Related, 
as Verplanck Point was to Stony Point, by so many ties of 
nature and history, the two seemed but portions of one 
whole, and the State Park at Stony Point was but half a 
park without the other half on Verplanck's. 

Col. Jay asked if the Commission were committed to a 
park at Verplanck's Point. 

Mr. Ridder replied that it was not. This Sub-Commit- 
tee, like the others, was appointed simply to investigate 
and report. 

Mr. Brower thought the Commission should adopt the 
idea of a park. It should approve of anything which would 
beautify the river. 

Upon motion of Mr. Seward, it was voted that the re- 
port be received and placed on file, and also that it be 
printed in the Minutes. 

Upon motion of Mr. John E. Parsons, the Sub-Commit- 
tee was requested to make a further report. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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230 

0llictvi anti Committcesi. 

(Revised to February 27, igcy.) 



Presidetit: 
Stewart T.. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New Yoik. 

J 'ice- Presidents : 

Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 
Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter. 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. While. 

Treason er: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 

Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Committee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, \ew York, 

Hon. James "SI. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 
Rear Adm.J.B.Coghlan, U.S.N. , Herman Ridder, 

William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall. J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup. Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Millet, Hon. Wm. R. Willco.K, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Committee on Laiv: 
Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, e.x-officio. 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis. J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway. New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. William McCarroll. 



231 

General Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, John E Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, cx-officio. 

Sub-Committee on N'aval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mr. William J. McKay, Com. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Admiral George W. Melville, Hon. John H. Slarin, 

Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Sub-Committee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 
Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. James Grant Wilso.. 

Sub- Committee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Ja)', Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Stib-Comtuittee on Park and Memorial at Lmvood: 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward 

Mr, Edward Hagaman Hall. Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub-Committee on Date of Celebration: 
Mr. William McCarroll, Chairman, 30 Ferry Street, New York City. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Louis C. Raegener. 

Sub-Committee on F.xhibition of Motive Power : 
Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York Citv. 



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Herbert Adams. 
fohn G. Aga.r. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Col. John Jacob A star. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Dr. James C. Bavles. 
Hon. James HI. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
George V. Broivcr. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush- Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choaie. 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear A dm. J. B. Coghlan. 

E. C. Converse, 

Walter Cook. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

E. D. Cummings. 

William J. Curtis. 
Paul D. Cravat h. 

Frederick R. Cruikshank. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. DeWitt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John ^L Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Sttiyvesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Foivler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

George J. Gould. 



Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregorj'. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
Hon. Edward M. Grout. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edward Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A . He am. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Higley. 
Hon. David B. Hilt. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I 'erplanckHoffman 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H . Hubbard. 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. Williani Jay. 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kunz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Lo7ii. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
William Mc Car roll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
R eat-- Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Jacob W. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig. -Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J . Pierp07tt Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm C. Mtischenheim. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Ludwig JVissen. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percv B. O'SuUivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. W. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
[Names of Trustees in italics. 



George A. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henrj- C. Potter. 
Thotnas R. Proctor. 
Hon. Cornelius A . Piigsley, 
Louts C. Raegener. 
Herman Bidder. 
William Rockefeller. 
Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Herbert L. Salter lee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schurman. 
Gustav H. Sckiuab 
Isaac N. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hoti. Frederick II'. Se^vard. 
Hon. William F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
J. Edward Simtnons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. John C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer 
Hon. John. H. Star in. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde .Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
VVm. L. Stone 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Aaro7t I'anderbilt. 
Alfred G. I'anderbilt. 
Cornelius I'anderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry \'an Dyke, 
Warner Van Norden. 
Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W. I'rooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edtnund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L.Woodruff. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 

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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

February 27, 1907. 

The thirteenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, New York Cit}^ Wednesday, 
February 27, 1907, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 

Present : The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
presiding; and Mr. George V. Brower, Mr. Theodore 
Fitch, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 
Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Rear Admiral 
George W. Melville, U. S. N.; Commander Jacob VV. Miller, 
Mr, William C. Muschenheim, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. 
Samuel Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Herman 
Ridder, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Col. John W. Vrooman, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson and Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 

The President, who had been abroad since September, 

offered a brief word of greeting upon taking the chair, and 

invited the Presiding Vice-President, Mr. Ridder, who had 

acted as President during his absence, to a seat by his side. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Hon. J. Rider Cady, Mr. Wm. J. Curtis, Hon. Henry 
Hudson, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Mr. William McCarroll, 
Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Herbert 
Satterlee, President J. G. Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Dr. 
Samuel B. Ward, Hon. Andrew D. White and Hon. Wm. 
R. Willcox, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved without read- 
ing. 



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Treasurer's Report^ February 27, 1907. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, as 
given below, was read and ordered on file. 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 

Gentlemen : 
I have the honor to report the following condition 
of the treasury at noon, February 27, 1907. 

PREVIOUS BALANCE. 

Balance on hand as per report of Jan. 23, 1907 $2,442.16 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

Voucher. 

23. Polhemus Printing Company $35-25 ' 

24. T. G. Sellew i.oo 

25. E. H. Hall, disbursements 8.60 

E. H. Hall, salary for January 208.33 253.18 

$2,188.98 

The foregoing is the balance of the first $5,000 remit- 
ted by the State Treasurer from the |!25,ooo appropriated 
by Chapter 325 of the Laws of 1906 for the use of this Com- 
mission. Against this balance will be chargeable such part 
as may be used of t)ie i^i,ooo appropriated by the Trustees 
at their last meeting for the expenses of the Inwood Park 
Committee. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment, sub- 
ject to examination and approval by the Finance Com- 
mittee: 

Polhemus Printing Company, thumb-tacks - $0.36 

Polhemus Printing Company, one pair shears .90 

Polhemus Printing Company, 500 copies minutes of 

January 23 26.80 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $9-95 

E. H. Hall, salary for February 208.33 218.28 

$246.34 

CJiairman of Law Committee Appointed. 
The President announced the appointment of Mr. 
Francis Lynde Stetson as member and Chairman of the 
Committee on Law, in place of the Hon. William W. 
Goodrich, deceased. 



February 27, 1907 235 

Plan and Scope Committee Report. 

The Committee and Sub-Committees on Plan and 
Scope were then called in turn for reports. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the general Committee on 
Plan and Scope, reported that the various sub-committees 
had been actively at work, as was evidenced by the printed 
minutes, and that all of them, except the recently appointed 
Committee on Motive Power, whose chairman had been 
ill, had made preliminary reports. Their recommendations 
were taking shape, and as soon as their final reports were 
made the general Committee on Plan and Scope would 
present final recommendations for adoption. Report of 
progress received. 

Proposed Water Gate. 

A letter was received from the Hon. James M. Beck, 
of the Law Committee, stating that he had called a meet- 
ing of the Committee to consider the question referred to 
it by the Trustees concerning the necessity of amending 
Chapter 304 of the Laws of 1906 if Columbia University 
should consent to modify its Stadium plan so as to embody 
a ceremonial Water Gate. (See page 222 of Minutes.) 
The Committee was not prepared to pass upon the ques- 
tion without seeing the agreement which Columbia Univer- 
sity had made, and which was in the nature of a trust. He 
therefore asked that a copy of the trust agreement be pro- 
cured and said that upon its receipt the Committee would 
give the matter further consideration. (See references to 
Water Gate under the following heading.) 

Coti/erence with Fulton Monument Association. 

The President asked if the Committee appointed at 
the last meeting (page 222) to co-operate with the Robert 
Fulton Monument Association and other bodies on subjects 
of common interest had any report to make. 

The Assistant Secretary stated that the Committee had 
arranged a conference meeting with a committee of the 
Robert Fulton Monument Association at 2.30 p. m., half an 
hour before the present meeting of the Trustees, and that 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb, the Chairman, expected to be pres- 
ent at the Trustees' meeting and make a report, but he had 
not yet arrived. 



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[Mr. Lamb and Commander Miller, of the Committee 
of Co-operation, arrived later, just as the motion to adjourn 
was being put. The statement which Mr. Lamb would 
have made to the Trustees is here inserted for information. 
Mr. Lamb and Commander Miller had met Mr. Hugh Gor- 
don Miller and Mr. W. W. Dearborn (Assistant Secretar}^), 
representing the Robert Fulton Monument Association, at 
the headquarters of the latter, No. 3 Park Row, Wednes- 
day, February 27, at 2.30 p. m., and they had conferred for 
about an hour. The Robert Fulton Monument Association 
had definitely decided upon a Water Gate and Monument 
in combination as a memorial to Robert Fulton, the report 
of their sub-committee to that effect having been adopted 
by their Association. The memorial is to be located at the 
riverside, on the south side of and adjacent to the grant 
made to Columbia LTniversity for a Stadium, etc., and a bill 
for a grant of land under water to the Monument Associa- 
tion, similar to the grant to Columbia University, had been 
drawn by Mr. Geo, L. Rives and sent to Albany. They 
expected to lay the corner stone on November 14, 1907, the 
anniversary of Fulton's birth. They were not sure whether 
their Fulton Memorial would be completed in 1909, but they 
hoped that it would be. The relatives of Fulton had con- 
sented to the removal of his remains from Trinity Church- 
yard to the monument, and had given the Robert Fulton 
Monument Association sole authority, so far as the family 
was concerned, to raise funds for this purpose. The repre- 
sentatives of the Fulton Association said that they had no 
information about our proceedings and would be glad to 
know what this Commission expected to do in honor of 
Fulton's memory. They also said that they would be 
pleased to co-operate with this Commission in honoring the 
memory of Hudson.] 

Report of Inwood Park Committee. 

Mr. John E, Parsons, Chairman of the Inwood Park 
Committee, reported briefly that the committee was pro- 
ceeding along the lines previously indicated to obtain au- 
thentic information and was making progress. Report of 
progress received. 



February 27, 1907 i^'j 

Report of Verplanck's Point Committee. 

In the absence of the Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman 
of the Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point, the 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward stated that the report of that 
committee as printed in the last minutes embodied the 
latest information which they had been able to obtain, and 
that the recommendation contained in it was the unanimous 
sentiment of the Committee. The Committee was in cor- 
respondence with the owners of the property with a view 
to obtaining more definite figures to submit to the Trustees. 

A communication dated No. 7 Pine Street, New York, 
Feb. 26, 1907, from Mr. Howland Pell, a member of the 
Commission, was read as follows: 

Henry W. Sackett, Esq., 

Secretary, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 
Dear Sir : 

Although a member of that Commission, I have not re- 
ceived a notice of a meeting for nearly a year. I have re- 
ceived the reports of the minutes, the last being dated Jan. 
23, 1907. I observe many references to making a State 
Park of the brickyards and other premises at Verplanck's 
Point, and wish to hereby record my protest against any 
such action, as I consider the proposition foreign to the ob- 
jects of the Commission. 

I understand from the minutes that the affairs of the 
Commission are managed by Trustees whose names are in 
italics, but I beg to ask if their action can bind the whole 
Commission on such a question. 

I ask that you read this letter at the next meeting of 
the Trustees. 

Very respectfuUj', 

(Signed) Howland Pell. 

The communication was referred to the Sub-Committee 
on State Park at Verplanck's Point. 

Preparation of Annual Report Authorized. 
Mr. Theodore Fitch stated that Section 6 of the Char- 
ter of this Commission (see page 83) required that "said 
Commission shall annually make to the Legislature a state- 
ment of its affairs.'' He therefore moved that the President 
and Secretary of the Commission be authorized to pre- 
pare the Annual Report to the Legislature as thus re- 
quired. Carried. 



.238 Minutes of Trustees 

Exhibition of the Municipal Art Society. 

A communication, dated New York, Feb. 21, 1907, to 
the President of the Commission from Mr. Charles R. 
Lamb, President of the Municipal Art Society of New 
York, was read, inviting the Commission to make an ex- 
hibit of its plans at the Sixth Annual Exhibition of the 
Society, to be opened in the galleries of the National Arts 
Club, March 13, 1907. 

The Assistant Secretary stated that he did not think 
that the plans of the Commission had crystallized suffi- 
ciently to enable it to make an exhibit. 

In response to a question by the President, Mr. John 
E. Parsons said that so far as the plans for the Hudson 
Memorial Bridge were concerned, they were at a complete 
standstill. The Art Commission of the City of New York* 
had disapproved of the design for the bridge as submitted 
by the engineers and the latter had not offered any modi- 
fied plan. The attitude of the engineers was that of wait- 
ing for the Art Commission to suggest something more ac- 
ceptable ; and the position of the Art Commission was 
that it was not incumbent upon them to suggest plans, but 
only to pass upon those submitted. The question hung in 
that condition, with the tender of his committee to exer- 
cise its friendly offices in bringing them together. 

With reference to the memorial to be erected at In- 
wood, Mr. Parsons said that his sub-committee had had 
communications from the National Sculpture Society and 
the Architectural League of New York, expressing a will- 
ingness to confer in accordance with the invitation from 
the Commission (see pages 120 and 150), but in order that 
such a conference might have something tangible to con- 
sider the sub-committee would like to have them offer 
their suggestions in advance. The conferees would thus 
be prepared to discuss the matter intelligently when they 
got together. Suggestions of different kinds had come 
from various sources. One was for something like the 
statue of Germania on the Rhine ; another was for some- 
thing like the tomb of Napoleon or Grant's tomb. Still 
another was for a modification of the Parthenon. The 



"Not to be confused with the Municipal Art Society of New Voil;. 



February 27, 1907 239 

thing for them to do was to suggest a general idea. He 
thought it would be of assistance if the Commission itself 
had some view on the subject. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the Plan and Scope Commit- 
tee, thought that the first necessity was to get the site, and 
then the form of the memorial could be decided upon af- 
terwards. 

Mr. Phillips moved that the invitation of the Munici- 
pal Art Society be complied with as far as practicable. 
Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned subject to the call of the 
President. 

EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, 

Assistant Secretary. 



241 



^uhson :f niton 
Celebration Commi00ion 



Sncorporatcii hp 

Chapter 325 of tfjc Hatog of 1906 

of tfjc 

&tate of i9eUj gork 



^0 arrange for tfje "Commemo= 
ration of tfjc Cer=Centcnarj> of 
ttc Bisicoberp of tfje ii^ubfiion 
JAibcr tip J^enrp J^ubson in tfje 
pear 1609, anb of tfje JfirSt 
TB^t of ^team in tfje ^abigation 
of gaib riber bp l^obert Jf ulton 
in tfje pear 1807." t^ i^ A t^ 



Mfnutes of March 27, 1907. 



242 

0tlictv^ anb Committee£f. 

(Revised to March 27, igoy.) 



Presi{/efif: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presiden ts : 
Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 
Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porier, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm, B. Van Rensselaer, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 

Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Committee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 
Rear Adm.J.B.Coghlan, U.S.N. , Herman Ridder, 

William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup. Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Millet, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant W'ilson, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Committee on Lavj: 
Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-officio. 

Comtnittee on Abominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman. 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, William McCarroll. 



243 

General Committee on Plan and Scape: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck. Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, ex-officio. 

Sub-Committee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

William J. McKay, Com. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Admiral George W. Melville, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Sub-Committee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 

Major-Gcn. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 

Governor's Island, New York. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub-Committee on Dedication of Afemorials: 
Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willco.x. 

Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Lnwood: 
John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City. 
William J. Curtis, Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, George W. Perkins, 

Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y, 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub-Committee on Date of Celebration: 

William McCarroll, Chairman, 30 Ferry Street, New York City. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Louis C. Raegener. 

Sub-Committee on Exhibition of Motive Power : 

Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York City. 

Committee on Co-operation : 
Charles R. Lamb, Chairman, 23 Sixth Avenue, New York City. 
Com. Jacob W. Miller, Henry W. Sackett. 



244 



llubgonjfulton Celebration Commisisfion. 



Herbert Adams. 
Joh}i G. Agar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Coi. J ok n Jacob A star, 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Dr. James C. Bavles. 
Hon. James J/. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. f. Boulton. 
Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
George V. Brower. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush- Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
A ndreui Carnegie. 
Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 
Sir Caspar Pur don Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Clez'eland. 
Rear A dm. J. B. Coghlan. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E. D. Cummings. 
\ Villia m J. Cu rtis. 
Paul D. Cravat h. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 
Hon. Chauncey AL Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
George G. DcWitt. 
Hon. William Draper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 
George Ehret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Arthur English. 
Most Rev. John ISL Farley. 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 
Barr Ferree. 
Stuyvesant Fish, 
Theodore Fitch. 
Winchester Fitch. 
Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk. S. Flower. 
Tliomas Powell Fowler. 
Austen G. Fox. 
Hon. Charles S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 
Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
George J. Gould. 



Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
Hon. Edward M. Grout. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Ediuard Hagaman Hall, 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Higley. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
Samuel I 'erplanckHoffman 
James P. Holland. 
Willis Holly. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay . 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
William McCarroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Frank D. Millet, 
Jacob W. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpoftt Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm C. Muschenheim. 
Nathan Newman. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Ludii'ig TVissen. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
Jolin E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Geo. W. Perkins. 
[Names of Trustees in italics.^ 



Hon. N. Taylor Phillip>s. 
George A. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henrj' C. Potter. 
Thomas R. Proctor. 
Hon. Cornelius A . Pugsley,. 
Louis C. Raegener, 
Herman Bidder. 
1 1 'illia m Rocke/elle r . 
Maj.-Gen. Ckas. F. Roe. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
Col. Wm. Cary banger. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Herbert L. Salter lee. 
Charles A. Schermerhorn. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schurman, 
Gustav H. Schwab 
Isaac N. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Frederick II'. Seward, 
Hon. William F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
J. Edward Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. John C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer 
Hon. John. H. Star in. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Wm. L. Stone 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townscnd. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Aaron I'anderbilt. 
Alfred G. I'anderbilt. 
Cornelius I'anderbilt, 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. 
Warner Van Norden. 
Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 
Miss A. T. Van Santvoord. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B.Vreeland. 
Col. John W. Vrooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Weimore. 
Edmund ll'etmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Whitney. 
Hon. William R. Willcox, 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewa rt L . Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff.. 
W. E. WooUey. 
James A. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

March 27, 1907. 

The fourteenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters, 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, 
March 27, 1907, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 
President : Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, President, pre- 
siding ; and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Theodore Fitch^ Mr. 
Henry E.Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. War- 
ren Higley, Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mr. Charles 
R. Lamb, Mr. William J. McKay, Rear Admiral George W. 
Melville, U. S. N. ; Mr. Ludwig Nissen, Mr. John E. Par- 
sons, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. 
Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Francis Lynde 
Stetson and Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Excused f 07- Abse?ice. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. James 
M. Beck, Hon. William Berri, Hon. J. Rider Cady, Mr. 
George A. Hearn, Col. William Jay, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Frank D. 
Millet, Mr. Wm. C. Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. 
Herbert L. Satterlee, Pres. J. G. Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. 
Schwab, Mr. Spencer Trask, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, Dr. 
Samuel B. Ward, Hon. Andrew D.White and Hon. Wm. R. 
Willcox, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved without reading. 

Treasurer s Report, March 27, 1907. 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Treasurer, reported that as the 
vouchers for the bills approved at the last meeting had not 



246 Minutes of Trustees 

yet reached him no checks had been drawn since his report 
of February 27, and that the balance on hand remained 
as then stated, $2,188.98, 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Finance Committee : 

Polhemus Printing Company, tissue paper $2.00 

Polhemus Printing Company, Minutes of Feb- 
ruary 27 - 17-70 

Polhemus Printing Company, 1,175 Manila en- 
velopes. - 6.75 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $13-50 

E. H. Hall, salary for March 208.33 221.83 

$248.28 
Funds Available Until April 27, 1908. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Hon. Martin H. 
Glynn, Comptroller of the State of New York, dated March 
16, 1907, stating that the fund appropriated for the use of 
this Commission by Chapter 325 of the Laws of 1906 was 
available for two years from the passage of the act, namely, 
until April 27, 1908. 

Appointed by the Mayor. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Executive 
Secretary of the Mayor of the City of New York, dated 
March 14, 1907, communicating the Mayor's appointment 
of the following named gentlemen, representing the Cen- 
tral Federated Union, as members of this Commission : 
Hon. A. J. Boulton, 232 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn ; Mr. Na- 
than Newman, 344 St. Ann's Avenue, Bronx, and Mr. 
James P. Holland, 159 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn. 

Trustees Nominated for Annual Eleetion. 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on 
Nominations, presented the following report : 

To the Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission : 
The Committee on Nominations hereby nominates and 
recommends for election at the annual meeting of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, on May 8, 1907, 
the following, viz: 



March 27, 1907 



247 



FOR TRUSTEES OF THE HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION 
COMMISSION. 



Mr. John G. Agar, 
Hon. James K. Apgar, 
Col. John Jacob Astor, 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Mr. August Belmont, 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Hon. William Berri, 
Hon. Frank S. Black, 
Hon. Alfred J. Boulton, 
Mr. George V. Brower, 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, 
Mr. Henry W. Cannon, 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 
Hon. Grover Cleveland, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan, 
Mr. William J. Curtis, 
Mr. Paul D. Cravath, 
Mr. Robert Fulton Cutting, 
Mr. George G. DeWitt, 
Mr. John C. Fames, 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, 
Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, 
Mr. Thomas Powell Fowler, 
Hon. Charles S. Francis, 
Mr. George J. Gould, 
Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, 
Mr. Henry E. Gregory, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Mr. Geo. A. Hearn, 
Hon. Warren Higley, 
Hon. David B. Hill, 
Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, 
Hon. Henry Hudson, 
Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
Col. William Jay, 
Mr. Morris K. Jesup, 
Gen. Horatio C. King, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Mr. John LaFarge, 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb, 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 



Hon. John G. Milburn, 
Mr. Frank D. Millet, 
Mr. Jacob W. Miller, 
Mr. Ogden Mills, 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 
Mr. Ludwig Nissen, 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, 
Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 
Mr. Geo. W. Perkins, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Gen. Horace Porter, 
Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 
Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Mr. William Rockefeller, 
Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 
Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, 
Col. Henry W. Sackett, 
Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, 
Pres. Jacob G. Schurman, 
Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 
Mr. Nelson S. Spencer, 
Mr. James Speyer, 
Hon. John H. Starin, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Mr. James Stillman, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Mr. Spencer Trask, 
Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Col. John W. Vrooman, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Mr. Edmund Wetmore, 
Hon. Andrew D. White, 
Hon. William R. Willcox, 



248 Minutes of Trustees 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Charles R. Wilson, 

Mr. William McCarroll, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Mr. William J. McKay, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. 

Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Melville, Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 

Each member of the Committee on Nominations 
refrains from the nomination of himself, but concurs as to 
all other names except his own. 
Dated March 25, 1907. 

Respectfully submitted. 

Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 
Henry W. Sackett, 
W. J. Curtis, 
Stewart L. Woodford, 

Committee on Nominations. 



It was voted that the report be approved and entered 
in full in the minutes. 

It was voted that the Secretary have printed a sufficient 
number of ballots bearing the foregoing nominations for 
use at the annual meeting. 

Recommended to the Mayor for Appointment to Commission. 

The Committee on Nominations also presented a re- 
port recommending to the Mayor the appointment of the 
following named gentlemen as members of this commission: 
Hon. Henry E. Howland, 35 Wall Street; Brigadier-General 
Henry S. Turrill, U. S. A., 2626 Broadway, and Mr. Edward 
P. Bryan, 13 Park Row, all of New York City. 

It was voted that the report be adopted and that the 
recommendations be communicated to the Mayor, 

The Fulton Memorial. 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman of the Law 
Committee, to which was referred the proposed legislation 
in regard to the Robert Fulton Memorial, reported that 
the Committee had taken the matter under consideration 
the preceding day. The proposed legislation included 
two bills, one already introduced on March 11 by Senator 
Alfred R. Page and one suggested for introduction by 
Commander Jacob W. Miller. Senator Page's bill (intro- 
ductory No. 620, printed No. 736) proposed to permit the 
filling in and improvement of the land under water and the 



March 27, 1907 249 

upland fronting upon Riverside Park between 114th and 
ii6th streets for the use of the Robert Fulton Monument 
Association. Commander Miller's proposed bill provided 
for the filling in and improvement of the land under water 
and the upland fronting upon Riverside Park between i loth 
and I i6th streets and its use by the Robert Fulton Monument 
Association, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
the New York Observatory and Nautical Museum or any 
other corporations or persons, the Armory Board for a 
Naval Militia Armory and the Board of Education for 
piers, etc., for the Nautical Schoolship of the City of New 
York. Mr. Stetson reported that after due consideration 
the Committee came to the conclusion that the Fulton 
Monument work was sufficiently under way in the compe- 
tent hands of the Robert Fulton Monument Association 
and that it was inadvisable for this Commission to take 
any steps in regard to legislation on that subject. The 
Committee agreed very heartily with the suggestion of 
Mr. John E. Parsons that the Commission should avoid, if 
possible, giving the City an}^ occasion for denying the 
Commission's request for a park at Inwood. The Com- 
mittee therefore recommended that the Commission take 
no steps in regard to this legislation and that the Commit- 
tee be discharged from its further consideration. 

It was unanimously voted that the report be adopted 
and the Committee discharged. 

Co-operation zvith Fulton Monument Association. 

Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Chairman of the Committee on 
Co-operation, presented the following report : 
To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission: 

Your Committee appointed to arrange for the co-opera- 
tion of this Commission with the Robert Fulton Monu- 
ment Association and any other bodies having mutual 
interests has the honor to report formally the facts already 
embodied informally in the minutes of February 27th, and 
printed on page 236. 

Supplementing that statement concerning the confer- 
ence between the representatives of this Commission and 
the representatives of the Robert Fulton Monument Asso- 
ciation, we recommend that the hearty approval and moral 



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support of this Commission be accorded to the Robert 
Fulton Monument Association in its plan to construct a 
Water Gate and Monument on the Hudson shore of Man- 
hattan Island^ and that we relinquish to them, in the most 
cordial spirit, the work of carrying out that important un- 
dertaking. While a Water Gate has been mentioned in the 
hearings and deliberations of our Commission as one of the 
desirable forms of memorials, it has not entered so particu- 
larly into our arrangements as to warrant our retaining it 
as a feature of our plans, in view of the fact that another 
body of capable and responsible men of the highest stand- 
ing in the community has both the willingness and the 
ability to carry the project to a successful issue. 

As the year 1909 approaches it is probable that other 
valuable projects — perhaps not so elaborate as the Fultoa 
Monument — will be suggested by other public-spirited and 
patriotic bodies, and it is our opinion that it would be wise 
for our Commission to adopt the policy of encouraging 
them, when, as in this case, it has unreserved confidence in 
the projectors. With their independent responsibility 
would go the corresponding credit for work well done, 
which we should not be backward to give them. 

With reference to the Fulton Monument, we further 
recommend that assurance be given to the Fulton Associa- 
tion that if it desires us to participate in its inaugural cere- 
monies this year it will give us pleasure to do so, and that 
if, in our arrangements for 1909, we can, agreeably to them,, 
make an important part of the celebration center around 
the Fulton Monument, we will gladly do it. 

In this connection we desire to reiterate our opinion 
of the desirability of the Water Gate projected by the Ful- 
ton Monument Association and to commend it to the hearty 
favor of our citizens generally. New York is peculiarly a 
maritime city. Seated as it is upon a group of superb is- 
lands, and penetrated by great and small waterways connect- 
ed directly with the ocean on the one hand and with the 
Great Lakes on the other, it is not a little remarkable that 
so many years have elapsed without the erection of some 
monument to emphasize this fundamental characteristic of 
our city. In a Water Gate, which will serve as a portal for 
the entrance of distinguished guests of the city and for the 
use of the Navy, we would have a monument which would 
combine many elements of beauty, sentiment and utility, 
and supply a conspicuous want in our municipal archi- 
tecture. 

It is the opinion of your Committee that this Commis- 
sion, while centralizing its own work upon the memorial 
which is finally decided upon as the feature of the celebra- 



March 27, 1907 251 

tion, might still properly exercise its good offices in any- 
way that will stimulate the work of other organizations, so 
that the combined effort of all might be centralized upon 
the days of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909. 
Respectfully submitted. 

Chas. R. Lamb, Chairman, 
Henry W. Sackett, 
Jacob W. Miller, 

Committee. 

Mr. John E. Parsons moved that the report be accepted 
and placed on file. Carried. 

Inwood Hill Park and Memorial. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman of the Sub-Committee 
on Park and Memorial at Inwood Hill, presented a report 
embodying the latest information obtained by the Com- 
mittee. The report concluded with the following para- 
graph : 

" The Sub-Committee avails itself of the opportunity 
in presenting this report again to call attention to the im- 
portance of the Inwood Heights Park for a Hudson- Fulton 
Monument. Nature has provided the site. It is impossible 
to speak too highly of the natural advantages. Every 
effort must be made at the earliest possible moment to- 
secure the approval and adoption by the City authorities 
of the scheme for the Park.'' 

Mr, Seward moved that the report be adopted. Carried. 
Mr. Parsons offered the following resolution: 

'■'■Resolved^ That the officers of the Commission, with as 
many of the members of the Sub-Committee on Inwood 
Park and of the members of the Commission generally as 
can arrange to do so, wait upon the Mayor and the other 
authorities of the City in aid of the Inwood Park scheme 
on the lines mentioned in the report this day submitted by 
the Sub-Committee." 

The resolution was adopted. 

Mr. Parsons reported further that his sub-committee 
had received a long communication from Mr. Karl Bitter, 
President of the National Sculpture Society, which society, 
with the Architectural League of New York, had been in- 
vited to make suggestions concerning the form of a 
memorial to be erected in Inwood Park. The communica- 



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tion was inconclusive, as it made no definite suggestion, 
but the sub-committee hoped that a personal conference 
might result in something more tangible and helpful. 

In the course of the informal discussion which ensued 
and in which Mr. Phillips, Mr. Lamb, Mr. Hall and others 
participated, it was pointed out that the Art Commission 
of the City of New York, of which Mr. Robert W. DeForest 
was president; the Municipal Art Society of New York, of 
which Mr. Charles R. Lamb was president, and the National 
Sculpture Society, of which Mr. Bitter was president, were 
entirely different bodies. The Art Commission of the City 
of New York, it was explained, was an official body pro- 
vided for by the Charter of the City. The Municipal Art 
Society and the National Sculpture Society were unofficial 
membership organizations. Mr. Lamb, in behalf of his 
society, tendered the Inwood Park Sub-Committee its 
co-operation. 

In the further informal discussion of Inwood Park and 
the proposed Hudson Memorial Bridge across Spuyten 
Duyvil Creek, participated in by Mr. Parsons, Mr. Phillips, 
Mr. Stetson and others, it developed that the deadlock 
between the Art Commission of the City of New York and 
the bridge designers still existed and that no progress was 
being made toward the construction of the bridge. 

Vcrplanck' s Point State Park Adopted. 

Mr. Pugsley, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on State 
Park at Verplanck's Point, stated that if anything were to 
be accomplished this 5'ear toward securing a park at Ver- 
planck's Point it was necessary for the Trustees to come 
to some conclusion at this meeting and authorize action 
before the Legislature adjourned. He therefore offered a 
resolution which, after suggestions by various Trustees, 
took the following form: 

^^ Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission approves of the recom- 
mendation for a State Park at Verplanck's Point to com- 
memorate the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry 
Hudson and the navigation of its waters by the first steam- 
boat constructed by Robert Fulton, and that the Sub- 



March 27, 1907 253 

Committee on that subject be authorized to draft and sub- 
mit to the Legislature, in behalf of this Commission, a bill 
appropriating $125,000 for this purpose, and to take such 
steps as in its judgment may be wise and necessary to' 
secure its passage." 

Mr. Fitch said he favored the project of a State Park at 
Verplanck's Point and expressed the opinion that if the 
Commission could succeed in getting Inwood Hill Park 
created by the City and Verplanck's Point Park by the 
State it would have gone a long way in attaining the 
objects for which it was formed. 

Mr. Pugsley, Mr. Seward and Mr. Hall, of the Sub- 
Committee, explained various features of the situation, and 
Mr. Parsons, Mr. Bergen, Mr. Seligman, Mr. Sackett and 
others participated in the discussion, at the conclusion of 
which the resolution was unanimously adopted. 

Hon. Warren Higley Aaded to Verplanck's Point Committee. 

The President announced the appointment of the Hon. 
Warren Higley as a member of the Sub-Committee on 
State Park at Verplanck's Point. 

Report on Motive Poiver Exhibit. 

The Secretary read a letter from the Hon. James M. 
Beck, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Motive Power 
Exhibit, dated March 16, 1907. Mr. Beck expected to be 
present at this meeting and present a report, but had una- 
voidably been detained. He stated in his letter that he 
had selected about fifteen prominent members of the Com- 
mission and had invited them to meet as a provisional 
committee to consider the advisability of a transportation 
exhibition. The gentlemen invited had been selected on 
account of their connection with transportation affairs, but 
their interest had not thus far been sufficiently manifest to 
warrant his forming any definite plans. He himself was 
a warm believer in the value of a transportation exhibition, 
to be devoted to all classes of motive power, provided 
there were sufficient public spirit to make it go. 

The letter was received as a report and ordered on file. 



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Change in Headquarters Room. 

Mr. Sackett moved that the officers of the Commisson 
be authorized to move the headquarters of the Commission 
on May i from room 605 to room 805 of the Tribune Build- 
ing. Room 805 is the corresponding room two floors 
higher than room 605. By the change the Commission's 
rooms would have an improved light and would be 
adjacent [to the private offices of both the Secretary and 
the Assistant Secretary. 

The motion was carried. 

After the submission of some unimportant communica- 
tions by the President and Secretary, the meeting 
adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Celebration Commi00ion 



Sncorporateb hp 

Chapter 325 of tfje Xatog of 1906 

of tf)C 

^tate of iSeUi gorfe 



VLo arrange for tfte " Commcino= 
ration of ttje tE:er=Centcnarp of 
tfje Bisfcobcrp of tfje J|ubs(on 
aaiber hp J^enrj> llubsion in tfjc 
pear 1609, antr of tfje Jfirfit 
Wiat of ^team in tfje ^abigation 
of saib riber hp a^obert Jf iilton 
in tf)e pear 1807." A A {^ ifL 



Ifliiiiiles of April 24 and May §, 1907. 



2^6 



^ul)gon=Jfulton Celebration Commission. 



Herbert Adams. 
lohti C. A^.ir. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andriis. 
Hon. James K. Af>gar. 
Col. J oh n Jacob .4 star . 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterburj'. 
Geo. \Vm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
CoL Franklin Bart left. 
Dr. James C. Bavles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont 
Tunis G Bergen. 
Hon. William Herri 
Hon. Frank S. B'a k. 
v.. W. Hlooinlngdale. 
(jeor^e C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. Pavid k. Bo )dy. 
Hon. .i J. Bou'ton 
Hon. Thomas W. Br.^dley. 
George I'. B rower. 
Dr. h). Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Lmn Buic;;. 
Kdward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Hush-Brown. 
Ho.i. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider C.xdy. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
Andreiv Carnegie. 
Hun. Joseph H. Choate. 
Sir Caspar Pwdon Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Cl.iusen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Graver Cleveland 
Rear Adm.J. B. Coghlan. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E. D. Curamings. 
IVillii'.m J. Curtis. 
Paul D. Cravat h. 
Frederick R Cruikshank. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
George G. Deli'itf. 
Hon. William Draper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
[ohn C, Fames. 
George Eh ret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Arthur English. 
Most Rev.'John M Farley. 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassctt. 
Barr Ferree. 
.Stuyvcsa nt Fish . 
Theodore Fitch. 
Winchester Fitch. 
Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk. S. Flower. 
Thomas Powell Foioler. 
Austen G. Fo.x. 
Hon. Charles S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 
Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
George J. Gould. 



l\Iaj.-Gen. P. D. Grant. 
George F. (jregory. 
Henry E Gregory. 
Hon. Edward IVI. (.rout. 
W. L. Guillaudeu. 
Abner .S. Haight. 
Edivard Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hcarn. 
James A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. Warren Hi^icy. 
Hon. David B Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 
.Samuel VerplanckHoffman 
James P Holland. 
Willis Holly. _ 
Kin. Henry E. HowlanJ. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H . Hubbard. 
//oh. /lenry Hudson. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jarcaci. 
( 'ol. 1 1 'illia m Jay. 
Morris K.Jesup. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. /•Ciiig. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Pr. Georee F. Kunz. 
John I^aFarge. 
Charles R Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry .)/. Leipziger. 
Hon. Clarence Le.xow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herm.in Livint;ston. 
Comdr. Charles H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. I.ounsbury. 
1/on. Seth Low. 
K. Fulton Ludlow. 
Willian A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
William I\'I Carroll. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J McKay. 
Hen. St. Clair McKelway. 
Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Melville. 
Hon. Jour. G. Milhurn. 
Frank D. Millet, 
[acob W .l/iller. 
Hon. Warner Mill<rr. 
Brig. -Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont .Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi F. Morton 
Wm C. /\/uschenlieim. 
Nathan Newman. 
C. H.Niehaus. 
Ludwig Nissen 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church 0>born. 
Percy B. O'Suilivan. 
Hon Alton H. Parkr. 
r)rrel A. Parker. 
fohii E. Parsons. 
Hjn. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Perk. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell 
Geo. W. Perkins. 
[Names of Trustees in italics.] 



//on. y. Taylor Phillips. 
George A. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 
Gen. /I or ace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pottei 
Thomas R. Proctor 
Hon. Cor7ielius A . Piigsley. 
Louis C. Raegener. 
Herman Ridder. 
Williajn Rockejeller. 
MoJ. Gen. Chas. E". Roe. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackett. 
Col. Wm. Gary ^anger. 
George Heniy Sargent. 
Col. Herbert L . Salter lee. 
Charles A. Schern;erhorn. 
Pr est. Jacob G. Sc/zurman. 
Gustav H. Schwab 
Isaac A'. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. F'-ederick W. Seieard. 
Hon. William F. bheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
J. Edward Simmons. 
John W. Simpson. 
E V. Skinner. 
Prof, lohn C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
fames Speyer 
Hon. John. H. Start n. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis S'ern. 
Francis Lynde Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
fames St i lima n. 
Wm. L. Stone 
Ifon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. I'heodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C V. Turner. 

Brig.-Gen. Henry S. TurriU. 
Albert Lnmann. 
Aaron I'anderbilt. 
Alfred G. I'anderbilt. 
Cornelius J'anderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. 
Warner Van Norden. 
W)'i. B. Can Rensselaer. 
J Leonard V'arick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W I'rooman. 
Hon. Chas G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon W. L. Ward. 
Edvvard Wells, Ji. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund li'ctmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C Whitney. 
ffon. William R. Willco.x:. 
Cliarles R. II ilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. fames Grant Wilson. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Ste-wart L. Woodford. 
Hon Tiinotfiy L. WoodruJJ. 
W. E. WooUey. 
James .4. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting" 

April 24, 1907 

The fifteenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters, 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday^ 
April 24, 1907, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 

Present : Mr. Herman Ridder, Vice-President, presid- 
ing ; and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. George V. Brower, 
Rear-Admiral J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N ; Mr. Theodore Fitch, 
Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. 
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. 
Charles R. Lamb, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. William C. 
Muschenheim, Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 
Mr. Louis C. Raegener, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. 
Aaron Vanderbilt, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer and Mr. 
Edmund Wetmore. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Mr. 
Morris K. Jesup, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Seth Low, 
Mr. Eben E, Olcott, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Henry 
W. Sackett, Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, President J. G. 
Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Mr. Francis Lynde 
Stetson, Mr. Spencer Trask, Dr. Samuel B. W^ard and Mr. 
Stewart L. Woodford, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved without read- 
ing. 



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Treasurer's Report, April 2If-, 1907. 

The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
was read by the Assistant-Secretary as follows: 

PREVIOUS BALANCE. 

Balance on hand as per report of March 27, 1907 12,188.98 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

Voucher. 

26. Polhemus Printing Company $28.06 

27. E. H. Hall, disbursements. $9.95 
E. H. Hall, salary, February 2oS.t,t, 

218.28 

28. E. H. Hall, disbursements. $1350 
E. H. Hall, salary, March. 208.33 

221.83 

29. Polhemus Printing Company 26.45 494.62 

Balance on hand April 24, 1907... :^i, 694.36 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 
The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 

The following bills were approved for payment, sub- 
ject to examination and approval by the Finance Commit- 
tee : 

Polhemus Printing Company, Minutes of March 27.$ 22.50 
Polhemus Printing Company, 1 dozen note books. .50 
Polhemus Printing Company, 250 notices of An- 
nual Meeting 2.75 

Polhemus Printing Company, 100 slips of names 

of Trustees 1.50 

Henry Romeike, Press clippings, Jan. -March 1,35 

E. H. Hall, disbursements % 6.66 

E. H. Hall, salary for April 208.33 21499 

$243.59 

Appointments by the Mayor, 

The Assistant-Secretary read a letter from the Execu- 
tive Secretary of the Mayor of the City of New York, 



April 24, 1907 259 

dated April 9, 1907, communicating the Mayor's appoint- 
ment of the following named gentlemen as members of this 
Commission : 

Mr. Edward P. Bryan, 13 Park Row, New York City. 
The Hon. Henry E. Howland, 15 Broad Street, New York 

City. 
Brig.-Gen. Henry S. Turrill, U. S. A., 2626 Broadway, New 

York City. 

Resignatiofi of Miss Van Satitvoord. 

The following communication from Miss Van Sant- 
voord was read : 

38 West 39th Street, 

April nth, 1907. 
Miss Van Santvoord regrets the necessity of resigning 
from the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, but 
wishes to express her interest in the successful accomplish- 
ment of the Tri-Centennial project. 

It was voted that Miss Van Santvoord's resignation be 
accepted with regret. 

Report of Committee on Plan and Scope. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the general committee on 
plan and scope, reported that the general committee was 
awaiting action by the sub-committees before making a 
further report. He could simply report progress. 

Report of progress received. 

Report of Sub-Committee on Naval Parade. 

Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the sub-committee on 
Naval Parade, reported that his committee was accumulat- 
ing data in regard to the Naval Parade and would soon be 
able to submit its final report. 

Report of progress received. 

Report of Sub-Committee on Imvood Park. 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman of the sub-committee 
on Inwood Park, reported that an effort had been made 
to secure an interview with the Mayor, but that it had 
been unsuccessful owing in part to the confinement of 
General Woodford and partly for other reasons. Mr. 



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Parsons was of the opinion that it was very desirable to 
have this interview with the Mayor as soon as General 
Woodford's health would permit, and to have as many 
members of this Commission participate in the interview 
as possible. 

Report of progress received. 

Bill for Verplanck' s Point Park Introduced. 

In the absence of Mr. Pugsley, Chairman of the Sub- 
Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point, Mr. Sew- 
ard reported that on April i6th the Hon. James K. Ap^ar 
had introduced in the Assembly, by unanimous consent, a 
bill to provide for acquiring land on Verplanck's Point for 
a Hudson-Fulton Memorial Park, and it had been referred 
to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

Following is the text of the bill : 

AN ACT 

To provide for acquiring land on Verplanck's Point in 
in Westchester County for a Hudson-Fulton Memorial 
Park, and making an appropriation therefor. 

The people of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section i. The commissioners of the land office shall, 
on the recommendation of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission, a corporation duly incorporated by cliapter 
three hundred and twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hun- 
dred and six, acquire on behalf and in the name of the 
people of the State, at such price and upon such terms as 
said commissioners of the land office may deem just, not 
exceeding the amount hereinafter appropriated, title to 
such portion of the land lying on Verplanck's Point, in the 
town of Cortlandt and in the county of Westchester, and 
bounded on the northwest and southwest by the Hudson 
River and on the northeast and southeast respectively 
by Twentieth street and Union avenue, as said street 
and avenue are laid out on a map of Verplanck, entitled 
" map of Verplanck, formerly known as Verplanck's Point, 
Westchester County, State of New York, Cyrus Latham, 
surveyor, Poughkeepsie, July, eighteen hundred and thirty- 
six," as in the judgment of said commissioners of the land 
office shall be most suitable for a public park or reserv'a- 
tion, to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of 
the exploration of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in. 



April 24, 1907 261 

sixteen hundred and nine, and the one hundredth anni- 
versary of the first use of steam in the navigation of said 
river by Robert Fulton, in eighteen liundred and seven, 
and to preserve the scenic beauty and historic landmarks 
of said Verplanck's Point. The area to be acquired by 
said commissioners of the land oflfice shall include particu- 
larly the site of Fort Fayette of the revolutionary period, 
the site and remains of the shore battery, the terminal of 
the old King's Ferry leading to the Stony Point battlefield 
state reservation, the site of Washington's headquarters, 
and the camping ground of the allied American and French 
troops in seventeen hundred and eighty-two, and as much 
of the shore fronting Henry Hudson's anchorage in sixteen 
hundred and nine as practicable. 

Sec. 2. After title to said land shall have been 
acquired as aforesaid, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission shall, during the existence of said commission, 
have control and jurisdiction of said park or reservation 
for the purposes stated in this act and in section two of 
chapter three hundred and iwenty-five of the laws of nine- 
teen hundred and six. Upon the dissolution of said Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission and unless otherwise 
provided by the Legislature, the control and jurisdiction 
of said park or reservation shall be given to such custodian 
as the commissioners of the land office may determine. 

Sec. 3. The sum of one hundred and twenty-five 
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
payable by the treasurer out of any moneys in the treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated subject 
to the audit of the comptroller to carry out the provisions 
of this act, and the same shall be payable by the treasurer 
upon the warrant of the comptroller on requisition of the 
said commissioners of the land office, or of such officer or 
officers as they may designate for such purposes. 

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 

Mr. Seward added that the only opposition to this 
plan which had thus far been manifested had come from 
the saloon keepers at Verplanck's Point who feared that 
their business would be swept away if the brick-making 
industry were removed. 

Report of progress received. 

Report of Sub-Committee OJi Date. 

A letter from Mr. McCarroll, Chairman of the Sub- 
Committee on Date, to the Secretary, was read as follows : 



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'■ It was my expectation to call together the Committee 
on Date previous to to-day's meeting, but. was unable to 
do so. At any rate, however, have not felt that it was 
necessary to make a further report of that Committee until 
the general plan had been pretty well formulated, with 
details before us, when we could then determine more 
exactly the time required for the celebration and be pre- 
pared to make more conclusive recommendation; and for 
that there is ample time, though I shall probably call 
another meeting before long." 

Report received and ordered on file. 
The meeting then adjourned. 

EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of 

The Commission 

May 8, 1907 

The second meeting of the entire Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration Commission, being the Annual Meeting, was held 
pursuant to call duly given, at its headquarters in the 
Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, May 8, 
1907, at 3 p. M. 

Roll Call. 
Present: The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, pre- 
siding; and Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Mr. Reginald P. Bolton, Dr. E. Parmly Brown, Mr. Fred- 
erick R. Cruikshank, Mr. James de la Montanye, Mr. Theo- 
dore Fitch, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Abner S. Haight, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Hon- 
Michael H. Hirschberg, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, Mr. 
James P. Holland, Mr. Albert E. Kleinert, Dr. George 
Frederick Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. Charles W. 
Lefier, Mr. Julius Lehrenkrauss, Mr. Wm J. McKay, Mr. 
Nathan Newman, Mr. Ludwig Nissen, Mr. John E. Par- 
sons, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. 
Louis T. Romaine, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. 
Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Hon. Theodore 
Sutro, Gen. Henry S. Turrill, Hon. William R. Willcox and 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Sir Caspar 
Purdon Clarke, Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, 
Mr. John La Farge, Dr. H. M. Leipziger, Hon. Seth Low, 
Mr. R. Fulton Ludlow, Mr. F. D. Millet, Com. Jacob W. 
Miller, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Rt. Rev. 
H. C. Potter, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Chas. A. Schermer- 
horn, Pres. J. G. Schurman, Mr. Francis L. Stetson, Mr. 
C. Y. Turner, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Mr. Edmund Wetmore 
and Hon. Andrew D. White, and they were excused. 



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Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of June 27, 1906, having been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved without reading. 

President's Annual Report. 

President Woodford made his annual report as follows: 

Gentlemen of the Commission : 

I have the honor to lay before you The First Annual 
Report of this Commission as prepared by the President 
with the aid of the Secretary, in accordance with resolu- 
tions of the Board of Trustees, and transmitted to the 
Legislature in pursuance of law one month ago to-day. 

With much of the matter embodied in this report you 
have been made familiar by the printed minutes which have 
been sent to you every month, and as you are men with 
many pressing affairs and your time is valuable, I will 
summarize the first eight pages of this Report unless you 
request me to read it verbatim. 

The report begins by citing the origin of this Com- 
mission in the desire to commemorate the 300th anniversary 
of Hudson's famous voyage in 1609; the earliest move 
toward the celebration of the event by the Hudson Tri- 
Centennial Association; then the formation of the Hudson 
Ter-Centenary Joint Committee ; the graceful relinquish- 
ment by the Hudson Tri-Centennial Association to the 
Hudson Ter-Centenary Joint Committee ; the public hear- 
ings which were held by the latter for the purpose of elicit- 
ing suggestions concerning the proposed celebration ; the 
appointment of the Fulton Centennial Celebration 
Committee ; the merging of the Hudson and the Fulton 
movements ; the incorporation of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission, and its organization ; the form- 
ation of the Robert Fulton Monument Association and the 
cordial relations existing between it and this Commission. 

The report then continues : 

FORM OF THE CELEBRATION. 

The first question which arose in the deliberations of 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was as to the 
form of the Celebration. At the public hearings held in 
December, 1905, and January, 1906, earnest advocates of a 
World's Fair appeared and argued in favor of an exposi- 
tion after the usual plan. This suggestion, however, 
elicited no public enthusiasm in the City of New York, in 
or near which the Exposition would naturally be held. In 



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the deliberations of this Commission, the predominating 
sentiment has been that however excellent have been the 
reasons for holding the long series of notable expositions 
by which the great historical anniversaries of the country 
have been commemorated in other cities since 1876, and 
however valuable those expositions have been to the 
communities in which they were held and to the country 
at large, the form of a celebration in or near New York 
must be shaped by powerful local considerations. In the 
first place, the Metropolis of the country is a vast Exposi- 
tion in itself. In it is concentrated the best of everything 
that the world can produce ; and these products can be 
seen to better advantage and in greater quantities in the 
shops of the manufacturers and dealers than in the conven- 
tional Exposition. In the next place, the transportation 
facilities of the city are so inadequate to accommodate even 
the local population that it would be little less than a 
crime, both to the inhabitants of the city and to the visitors, 
to draw hither a vast concourse of people which could 
not be decently accommodated and which would aggravate 
the dangerous conditions which already exist. 

For these reasons chiefly, an Exposition has not thus 
far entered into the plans of the commission, and from 
present indications will not. 

An Exposition being practically out of the question, the 
discussions of the Trustees have indicated their strong 
desire to shape the celebration in such a way that its results 
will not be transient or ephemeral, but, on the contrary, 
will be of lasting benefit to the people, and serve for 
generations as memorials worthy of the great events com- 
memorated and the great people commemorating them. 
The recommendations of the Plan and Scope Committee, 
which indicate the general trend of the Commission's ideas, 
suggest enough of the spectacular element to give a large 
measure of popular enjoyment combined with several great 
public improvements which will confer a lasting benefit 
on the people of the City and State and constitute the 
perpetual memorials of the anniversaries. Briefly stated, 
they are as follows : 

I. A Naval Parade, occupying two days ; to be partici- 
pated in by the United States Navy and naval vessels of 
foreign nations, merchant vessels and pleasure craft, and to 
contain models of the Half Moon and Clermont, together 
with types of vessels showing the progress in the art of 
navigation since 1609. The naval procession to start from 
New York City and as much of it as practicable to go to 
Newburgh Bay ; there to be met by a counter naval proces- 
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the Half Moon and Clermont and return to Albany the 
following day ; the Lower Hudson Division at the same 
time returning to New York and having an illumination at 
night. 

2. Land exercises, consisting of a military and civic 
parade and literary exercises in public halls, schools and 
churches in New York, with corresponding demonstrations 
in other communities along the Hudson. 

3. The dedication of memorials. The two principal 
memorials now under consideration by this Commission 
area Municipal Park on Inwood Hill at the northern end 
of Manhattan Island, and a State Park at Verplanck's Point. 
Of these we shall speak more at length hereafter. The 
Hudson Memorial Bridge, which has been planned to span 
Spuyten Duyvil Creek from Inwood Hill to Spuyten Duy- 
vil Hill, has been so delayed by the deadlock between the 
designing engineers and the Art Commission of the City 
of New York that there is now no prospect of its construc- 
tion by 1909. It is probable that the monument to Robert 
Fulton erected by the Robert Fulton Monument Associa- 
tion will then be completed and finally dedicated. This 
Commission is discussing the possibility of securing the 
erection of a building or monument on Inwood Hill as a 
further memorial to Hudson and Fulton. We are informed 
that the Holland Society is planning the erection of a 
monument in recognition of the Dutch founders of New 
York with a view to dedicating it in 1909. The dedication 
of these and other possible memorials, and the opening of 
the Palisades Drive, if ready, will be provided for in the 
programme if they prove practicable. 

INWOOD HILL MUNICIPAL PARK. 

One of the most important recommendations of the 
Plan and Scope Committee is that for a municipal park of 
about 75 acres embracing the northern portion of Inwood 
Hill on Manhattan Island. There are many strong reasons 
moving to this suggestion. This park, which has already 
been recommended by influential civic societies and by the 
city's own engineers, would secure the last portion of Man- 
hattan Island remaining in almost its primeval condition. 
From this beautiful wooded knoll, appearing to us to-day 
almost as it did to Henry Hudson nearly three hundred 
years ago, a more extended view up Hudson River can be 
obtained than from any other part of the island. Besides 
its landscape beauty, it has many historical associations. 
At the base of the cliffs near Cold Spring is a rock habita- 
tion in which the aborigines dwelt, as was proven by the 



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implements and utensils excavated therefrom and now 
preserved in the American Museum of Natural History. 
Around it are scattered extensive shell heaps left by the 
Indians belonging to the tribe which attacked Hudson on 
his return down the river. On the summit of the hill during 
the Revolution stood the Cock Hill Fort. This park would 
not only provide another lasting and useful work for the 
benefit of the people, but it would also afford a site for such 
other memorial, architectural or sculptural, as may be 
found practicable. The northern head of the hill, sur- 
rounded on three sides by water, cannot be obscured by 
private structures on those sides, and presents an un- 
equaled site for the erection of a municipal museum, a 
statue or group of statuary, or other suitable monument. 

verplanck's point state park. 

For the State's contribution to the permanent memorials 
of the celebration, the Commission recommends a state 
park at Verplanck's Point. 

Hudson sailed between Stony Point and Verplanck's 
Point on his northward voyage September 14, 1609, ac- 
cording to an easily recognized passage in his journal, 
and anchored here on his return trip, October ist. These 
two headlands form the natural gateway to the Highlands 
and have been likened by Irving to the Pillars of Hercules, 
of which Stony Point is the Gibraltar. The State already 
has a reservation of 34 acres on the Stony Point battlefield, 
which has been improved under the care of the American 
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and is now visited 
by nearly 20,000 persons a year. 

On Verplanck's Point, the military complement of 
Stony Point, stood Fort Fayette, which shared the vicissi- 
tudes of the post across the river, and the remains of which 
are still extant. Herein 1782 Washington and the American 
army received Count Rochambeau and the French auxil- 
iaries en route from Virginia to Boston. The hill on which 
Washington's marquee stood is one of the conspicuous 
eminences in that region. Between the two points was 
the famous King's Ferry, which was the principal trans- 
Hudson thoroughfare between New England and the West 
and South during the War for Independence, and across 
which all the great commanders and conspicuous figures of 
that period and troops of all the armies passed at one time 
or another. 

This point, while not lacking diversity of elevation, is 
not so rugged as Stony Point, and is readibly adaptable to 
the purposes of a great recreation ground for wholesome 



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popular enjoyment such as does not exist either in the 
City of New York or elsewhere in the State. The rapid 
growth of the metropolis and the increasing difficulty of 
providing adequate recreation grounds within the city 
limits; the justice of reserving from private ownership 
suitable places where the people at large, in city and 
country, can have access to and free enjoyment of the beau- 
ties of the world-famous Hudson ; and the material short- 
ening of time distances by improved transit facilities, are 
added reasons for giving to the people on this occasion 
this eligible and interesting reservation on the east bank of 
the river. 

The Commission strongly recommends the purchase 
of this Park as being in the interest of the State. It will 
give the State a property which will probably increase in 
value, and if not taken by the State, may be sold at even a 
greater price to manufacturing companies, some of whom 
are bidding for portions of it. 

The project of this Park is not a novel experiment, but 
may be regarded as the rounding out and completion of 
the act of the State in making a reservation for a State 
Park on Stony Point, which has proved so popular on the 
west side of tfie river. The two reservations, directly oppo- 
site each other and connected by the old King's Ferry, 
combine historical associations and scenic advantages in a 
way not duplicated elsewhere along the Hudson. 

DATE OF THE CELEBRATION. 

It is probable that the Celebration will take place dur- 
ing the secular week beginning Monday, September 20, 
1909. Hudson's first discovery of land within the limits of 
the present City of New York was made on September 2, 
1609. His ascent of the Hudson River proper began Sep- 
tember 12. On September 19 he reached his northernmost 
anchorage at or near the site of Albany. OnSeptember23 he 
began to descend the river, and on October 4 he passed 
cut to sea. As the anniversary of Hudson's tirst arrival, 
September 2nd, comes before a large portion of the popu- 
lation have returned from their summer resorts, the week 
of September 20th has been tentatively selected as most 
convenient for the public and equally appropriate hisiori- 
cally, as at that time the explorer had reached his " farthest 
north" on the river. 

NEW JERSEY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE. 

On June 27, 1906, the Commission adopted a resolu- 
tion respectfully requesting the Governor of New York to 
invite the Governor of New Jersey to nominate not to 



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exceed ten citizens of the latter State for appointment as 
additional members of this Commission. 

In a letter dated November 8, 1906, to the President 
of the Commission, Governor Higgins wrote as follows : 

"In relation to the communication from the Hon. 
Stewart L. Woodford of June 29th, permit me to state that 
Governor Stokes informed me on July yih that he would 
take the matter up and act upon it in the near future. I 
have since that time seen Governor Stokes and again called 
the matter to his attention, and received a similar reply. I 
will again write to him to-day and will advise you as soon 
as I receive any further information on the subject." 

Thus far the Commission has not been advised that 
the Governor of New Jersey has responded to this invita- 
tion. 

HEADQUARTERS OF THE COMMISSION. 

The headquarters of the Commission are a commodious 
office in the Tribune Building, New York Citv, provided 
for by resolutions of the Sinking Fund Commissioners of 
the City, adopted June 20 and October 10, 1906. The 
rental, which is paid by the City, is $1,000 a year. 

FINANCIAL REPORT, ETC. 

The report closes with a financial statement showing 
the balance on hand of ;S;i,942.64. This is the balance of 
the first $5,000 drawn from the fund of $25,000 appropri- 
ated by the Legislature. 

Appended to the report are a List of the Members, 
Officers and Committees of the Commission, and a copy 
of its By-Laws. 

This comprises our Annual Report as presented to the 
Legislature. I will supplement it by a verbal report on 
two interesting and important features of our work, 
namely, the proposed State Park at Verplanck's Point and 
the proposed City Park at Inwood Hill. 

Interview with Governor Hughes and Others in Regard to 
Verplanck' s Point Park. 
The President then stated that on Tuesday, May 7, 
the Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman of the Plan and 
Scope Committee; the Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman of 
the Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point; 
Assemblyman James K. Apgar, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Hon. Warren Higley and Dr. Samuel B. Ward, mem- 
bers of the Sub-Committee, and the President of the Com- 



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mission had gone to Albany and had had interviews on 
the subject of the proposed State Park with Governor 
Hughes; Hon. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., Speaker of the 
Assembly; and Hon. Sherman Moreland, Republican 
leader in the Assembly. They had sought an interview 
with the Hon. \Vm. W. Armstrong, Chairman of the Fi- 
nance Committee of the Senate, but without success. Gov. 
Hughes had expressed his warm sympathy with and appro- 
val of the plan of the Commission for the proposed park 
and said that the onlj^ question in his mind was the ability 
of the State to meet the financial requirements. Messrs. 
Wadsworth and Moreland had also expressed their interest 
in the project, and the Committee felt hopeful for the suc- 
cess of Mr. Apgar's bill. 

Intervinv iviih Mayor McClellan in Regard to 
Iim'ood Hill Park. 

The president stated further that on May 8 the follow- 
ing named members of the Commission had called on 
Mayor McClellan at the City Hall in regard to the pro- 
posed municipal park at Inwood Hill: Mr. John E. Par- 
sons, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Inwood Hill 
Park, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Wm. J. Curtis, Mr. Ed- 
ward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Geo. A. 
Hearn, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, Dr. Geo. F. Kunz, Mr. Wm. J. 
McKay, Rear Admiral Geo. W. Melville, Mr. Frank D. 
Millet, Hon. Levi P. Morton, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Mr. 
Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. 
Seligman, Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt 
and the President of the Commission. The Commission's 
recommendation was laid before the Mayor by Mr. Parsons. 
"I have been associated with Mr. Parsons at the bar many 
years," said Mr. Woodford, "and have heard him make 
many speeches, but I never heard him make as effective a 
speech as he made in five minutes before the mayor on the 
subject of this proposed park on Inwood Hill." 

The Mayor, at the conclusion of Mr. Parson's remarks, 
had requested him to forward a formal communication on 
the subject which could be laid before the Board of Esti- 
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as sanguine about Ihe erection of the proposed Hudson 
Memorial Bridge. 

Referring further to the plans for the State Park at 
Verplanck's Point and the Municipal Park at Inwood Hill, 
the President said that he believed the Commission was 
on the way to a worthy, permanent celebration. What 
had occurred at the Jamestown Exposition was a demon- 
stration of the wisdom of this Commission in deciding not 
to have a fair here. If we could have the spectacular fea- 
tures previously outlined, the people w^ould be gratified. 
At the same time, if we could plant a State Park at Ver- 
planck's Point, we would be establishing something use- 
ful for the ages. "The Coliseum, the Arch of Con- 
stantine, and the Column of Trajan are crumbling to 
dust," he continued; " but the seven hills of Rome stand 
eternal. If we can get Inwood Hill for a park, we will 
have a memorial for all time to come." 

Apropos of the subject of Inwood Park, the Secretary 
read a letter dated May 7th, from Sir Caspar Purdon 
Clarke, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and 
a member of this Commission, in which he said : "I greatly 
regret that as I am leaving for Cleveland this afternoon, I 
will be unable to attend with the Hudson-Fulton Trustees 
at the Mayor's office to-morrow. I have every sympathy 
with the movement and it is only that I have been engaged 
for some time past to speak at a public meeting at Cleve- 
land that prevents me from coming." 

He also read a letter dated May 6th, from Hon. Samuel 
Parsons, Landscape Architect of the Park Department and 
a member of this Commission, in which Mr. Parsons said : 
" 1 profoundly sympathize with the idea of securing a pub- 
lic park at the northern portion of Inwood Hill, Manhat- 
tan, and would, without question, appear at the meeting 
before the Mayor on the 8th ; but unfortunately I shall be 
obliged to be out of town that day I will, how- 
ever, say or do anything I can to advance this most worthy 
object." 

Election of Trustees. 

The election of 100 Trustees for the ensuing year being 
in order, the report of the Nominating Committee, as printed 



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on pages 247 and 248 of the minutes and sent toevery mem- 
ber of the Commission, was presented by Mr. Theodore 
Fitch, Chairman. 

The President then invited nominations from the fioor,^ 
and there were none. 

The President appointed Mr. R. P. Bolton and Mr. 
James de la Montanye tellers to receive and count the 
ballots, 

Mr. De la Montanye moved thatas there were no nomi- 
nations other than those presented by the Nominating 
Committee, the Secretary be instructed to cast a single 
ballot in behalf of the meeting for those named. Carried 
by unanimous vote. 

The Secretary having cast the ballot as directed, the 
President declared the following named gentlemen elected 
as Trustees for the ensuing year : 



Mr. John G. Agar, 
Hon. James K. Apgar, 
Col. John Jacob Astor, 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Mr. August Belmont, 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Hon. William Berri, 
Hon. Frank S. Black, 
Hon. Alfred J. Boulton, 
Mr. George V. Brovver, 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, 
Mr. Henry W. Cannon, 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 
Hon. Grover Cleveland, 
Rear-Adm. J. B. Coghlan, 
Mr. William J. Curtis, 
Mr. Paul D. Cravath, 
Mr. Robert Fulton Cutting, 
Mr. George G. DeWitt, 
Mr. John C. Fames, 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, 
Mr. Stuvvesant Fish, 



Hon. John G. Milburn, 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, 

Mr. Jacob W. Miller, 

Mr. Ogden Mills, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Mr. William C. Muschenheim,. 

Mr. Ludwig Nissen, 

Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. Alton B. Parker, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Samuel Parsons, 

Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 

Mr. Geo. W. Perkins, 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Gen. Horace Porter, 

Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley,. 

Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Mr. William Rockefeller, 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, 

Col. Henry W. Sackett, 

Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, 

Pres. Jacob G. Schurman, 



Mr. Theodore Fitch, 

Mr. Thomas Powell Fowler, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, 

Hon Charles S. Francis, Mp: Isaac N. Seligman, 

Mr. George J. Gould, Hon. Frederick W. Seward,. 



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Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, 
Mr, Henry K. Gregory, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Mr. Geo. A. Hearn, 
Hon. Warren Higlev, 
Hon. David B. Hill,' 
Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
Col. William Jay, 
Mr. Morris K. Jesup, 
Gen. Horatio C. King, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Mr. John LaFarge, 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb, 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 
Hon. Seth Low, 
Mr. William McCarroll, 
Mr. William J. McKay, 
Rear-Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 



Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 
Mr. Nelson S. Spencer, 
Mr James Speyer, 
Hon. John H. Starin, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Mr. James Stillman, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Mr. Spencer Trask, 
Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Col. John W. Vrooman, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Mr. Edmund Wetmore, 
Hon. Andrew D. White, 
Hon. William R. Willcox, 
Mr. Charles R. Wilson, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 



Rental of Headquarters. 

A communication dated May 3, 1907, from. Hon. N. Tay- 
lor Phillips, Deputy Controller and Secretary of the Com- 
missioners of the Sinking Fund, was read, transmitting a 
certified copy of the following resolution adopted by the 
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund May r, 1907: 

'"'■ Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel be and is 
hereby requested to prepare a lease to the City, from the 
Tribune Association, of Room No. 805 on the 8th floor of 
the Tribune Building on the northeasterly corner of 
Nassau and Spruce Streets in the Borough of Manhattan, 
for the use of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
for a period of one year from May i, 1907, at an annual 
rental of One thousand dollars (;|i,ooo), payable monthly, 
the lessor to furnish light, heat, elevator and janitor service ; 
the lease to be on condition that the lessors cancel the lease 
of room No. 605 occupied by the Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission which expires on June 13, 1907, as of May 
I, 1907 ; and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund 
deeming the said rent fair and reasonable and that it 
would be for the interests of the City that such lease be 



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made, the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized and 
directed to execute the same, when prepared and approved 
by the Corporation Counsel as provided by sections 149 
and 217 of the Greater New York Charter." 

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned, 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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276 

(Revised to July 30, 1907.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

I'icc-Prcsidoits : 

Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 

Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. ?>. Van Rensselaer, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building. New York. 
Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New Y^ork. Tribune Building, New Y'ork. 

Executii'e Co ni in itfee : 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New Y'ork, 

Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 
RearAdm.J.B.CoghIan,U.S.N., Herman Ridder, 

William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hai^aman Hall, J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Millet, Hon. Wm. R. VVillcox, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Coniniittce on Laic: 
Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New Y^ork. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jav, 

William J. f^urtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, e.v-officio. 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-ofUcio. 



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Couuiiittce on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

General Conuuittce on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, ex-ofUcio. 

Snb-Comtnittee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

William J. McKay, Com. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, U.S.N. , Hon. John H. Starin, 

Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Suh-Coinniittee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 
Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub-Coniniittee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Sub-Connnittee on Park and Memorial at Inzvood: 
John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City. 
William J. Curtis, Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, George W. Perkins, 

Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub-Committee on Date of Celebration: 
Hon. William McCarroll, Chairman, 30 Ferry St., New York. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Louis C. Raegener. 

Sub-Committee on Exhibition of Motive Poiccr: 
Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York City. 

Committee on Co-operation : 
Charles R. Lamb, Chairman. 2,3 Si.xth Avenue, New York City. 
Com. Jacojj W. Miller, Henry W. Sackett. 



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TJubsmi-iFultmt (Eplfbratian (Enmmtflstmt. 



Herbert Adams. 
John O. A car. 
"R B. Aldcroftt. Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Afgar. 
Col John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson V. Atter- 

bury. 
■Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo C. Batcheller. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James ^L Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. . 
Hon. William Bern. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. ^^ . Bradley. 
George V. Brozver. 
Dr E. Parmly B.rown. 
Hon. INI. T.inn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henrv K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon.'E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
Tohn F. Calder. 
"Hon. T. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnesie. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choatc. 
John Claflin. 
•^fr Caspar P. Clarke. 
Plon. Georsie C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

Ian. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E D. " Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Paul D. Crarath. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
Roht. Fulton Cutturg. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 
K S. A. deLima. 
Hon. ('. M. Denew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
Gfor^f <"'. ^'" '(*■ 
Hon. William Draper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 
George Ehret. 
Hon. S'-ith Ely. 
Arthur English 
Most Rev. John M. 

Farlev. 
//«n. /. SInnt Fassett. 
P.arr Ferree. 



Stuxvesant Fish. 
Theodore Fitch. 
Winchester Fitch. 
Hon. T. J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk.' S. Flower. 
Thomas Powell Fowler. 
Austen. G. Fox. 
Hon. Chas. S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 
Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 
Ceorerc J. Geuld 
Maf.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
Capt. R. H. Greene. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henrv E. Gregory. 
Hon." Edward M. Grout. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edw. Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Henrn. 
Tames A. Hearn. , 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
//■<!«. Warrrn Hig'"^. 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. TNIichael H. Hirsch 

berg. 
Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 
Tames P. Tlolland. 
Willis Holly. 
Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 
Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr.' I^eRov Hubbard. 
Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henrv Hudson. 

■ Walter G. Hudson. 
T. D. Hunting. 

■ Angu.'!* F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jcy. 
Morris K. Jesup. 
Hugh ICelly. . , 
Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horati" C. Kins. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kuns. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer T pp. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Tulius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henrv ^l. l.cipziger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

FTerman Livincston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Lormg. 

Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seth Low. 

R Fulton T.udlow. 

William A. Alarble. 

George E. Mntthcws. 

Hon.' Wm. McCirroll. 



Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. Tohn T. ^IcCook. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. ^^t. Clair Mclvel- 
wav. , , , 

Rear-Ad. Geo. H . Mel- 
ville. 
Hon. John G. Milbnrn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Com. Jacob W. .MfU'v. 
Hon. Warner 7>Iiller. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. :Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
ITon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
M'm. C. Muschcnheim. 
Nathan Newman. 
C. H. ^i''haus. 
Ludwig Nissen. 
Hon. T.ewis Nixon. 
Chas. R. Norman. 
W R. O'Donovan. 
Ebcn E. Olcott. 
Wm. Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'SulHvan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bavard L. Peck. 
GoVdon H. Peck. 
ITowland Pell. 
Geo. U\ Perkins. 
Hon. X. Taylor Phillips. 
George A. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene IT. T'orter. 
Gen. Horace Porter. 
Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 
Thomas R. Proctor. 
Hon Cornelius .4. Pugs- 
lev, 
f otiis C. Raci^ener. 
Herman Ridder. 
Ji'illiam Rockefeller. 
MaJ.-Gen. Chas. ^. Roe. 
Carl T. Roehr. 
T ouis T. Romame. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henrv W. SackctK 
Col. Wm. Gary Sanger. 
Georee Henrv Sargent. 
Col. Herbert L. Sattcrlee 
C'^as A. Schermerhorn. 
Tacob TT. Schiff. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schur- 

ntan. 
i^us'av H. Schwab. 
Isaac .V. SfU-man. 
T nuis Selissburg. 
TTon. Tose-'h TT. Senner. 
Hei F^-"f'k. IF. .S.-:,'nrd. 
TTon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
/. Ed—"rd Simmins. 
Tohn W. Simrson. 
E. ^'. Skinner. 



[Names of Trustees in /7a//V.v'] 



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Prof. John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Spcyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynda Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Wm. L. Stone. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

George R. .Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Spencer Trask. 



C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Lt.-Coiii. AuruH I'ander- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry \'an 

Dyke. 
Warner \*an Norden. 
lV)n. B. Van Rensselaer. 
T. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W. V rooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells. Jr. 

[Names of Trustees in italics. 



Charles W. Wetmore, 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Whitney. 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 
Hon. John S. Wise. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 
W. E. Wool ley. 
James A. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

May 2 2, 1907' 

The sixteenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fuhon Celebration Commission was held at headquarters, 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, May 
22, 1907, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 

Present: Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, President, pre- 
siding; and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. George V. Brower, 
]\Ir. William J. Curtis, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Henry E. 
Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Samuel Ver- 
planck Hoffman, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Hon. Setli Low, 
Rear-Admiral George W. Melville, Mr. Frank D. Millet, 
Air. Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. 
Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, and Hon. Timothy 
L. Woodruff. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. James K. 
Apgar, Hon. William Berri. Mr. James M. Beck, Mr. 
Henry W. Cannon, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Hon. War- 
ren Higley, Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, 
Gen. Horatio C. King, Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. H. M. 
Leipziger, Mr. William McCarroll, Mr. William C. Mus- 
chenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. 
Bayard L. Peck, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Louis C. 
Raegener, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, President J. G. 
Schurman, Mr. Francis L. Stetson, and Hon. Andrew D. 
White, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 

The President invited the Hon. Seth Low to the chair 
and retired from the room. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members, were approved without reading. 



282 Minutes of Trustees 

Treasurer's Report^ May 22, igoj. 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Treasurer, reported that the 
bills approved for payment at the last meeting of the 
Trustees had not yet reached him and that there had been 
no disbursements during the past month. The balance in 
the treasury remained as last stated, $1,694.36. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment subject 
to examination and approval by the Finance Committee : 

Polhemus, bottle of red ink $1 .20 

Polhemus, Minutes of April 24 and May 8 36.80 

Law Journal, advertisement ot Annual Meeting. . . 2.50 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $30. 16 

E. H. Hall, salary for May 208.33 238.49 

$278.99 
Election of Officers. 

The election of officers for the ensuing year being in 
order, Mr. Theodore Fitch moved that the present Presi- 
dent, Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer be re- 
elected ; and that if no other nominations were made, the 
Secretary be directed to cast a ballot for the re-election of 
the present officers. 

Mr. Fitch's nomination was seconded, and, there being 
no other nominations, was unanimously carried. 

The Secretary reportetl that he had cast the ballot as 
directed, and the Chairman therefore declared the following 
officers elected for the ensuing year: 

President. 
Mr. Stewart L. Woodford. 

Vice-Presidents. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Gen. Frederick D. Grant, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Morris Iv. Jesup, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. W. R. Van Rensselaer, 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 



May 22, 1907 283 

Treasurer. 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman. 

Secretary. 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

The chairman appointed Mr. Ridder and Mr. Sehgman 
a committee to escort the President to the Chair. 

Mr. Woodford, resuming the Chair, said: "I thank 
you heartily for this expression of your confidence and I 
deeply appreciate being associated with you in this inter- 
esting work. I accept the office to which you have so 
generously elected me, and I will do the best I can to dis- 
charge its duties." 

Appointment of Assistant Secretary. 
]\Ir. Fitch moved that Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, the 
present Assistant Secretary, be re-appointed for the fol- 
lowing year at the same salary, at the rate of $2,500 a year, 
payable in monthly instalments. Unanimously carried. 

Communication to the Mayor Concerning Inzvood Hill. 
The Secretary made a brief statement of the facts con- 
cerning the call by members of the Commission upon 
Mayor McClellan May 8th, in regard to Inwood Hill Park, 
as reported on pages 270 and 271 of the Minutes, and 
stated that in compliance with the suggestion of the Mayor, 
the following communication signed by the President and 
Secretary of the Commission had been sent to the Mayor 
under date of May 20th, 1907 : 

May 20th, 1907. 
Hon. George B. McClellan, 
Mavor, 
City Half, New York, 
Dear Sir : 

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission avails 
itself of your kind proposal to put before you in writing 
the purport of the application made by the Commission to 
you at the interview which you were so good as to accord 
to it on ]\rav 8th. 



284 Minutes of Trustees 

Under date of August 15th, 1906, the Commission 
caused to be sent to the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment an appeal for a Park at Inwood Hill for the double 
purpose of preserving the Hill as a Hudson-Fulton memo- 
rial and of using it for such erection, architectural or 
sculntural, as would indicate and establish its memorial 
character. 

A copy of the appeal, for convenience of reference, is 
sent herewith. (See pages 160 and 161 of the printed 
Minutes.) 

In support of our application to the Board of Estimate 
and Apportionment, and for submission by you to the Boa^'d, 
permit me to add this : 

The Park has already been recommended by influ- 
ential civic societies and by the city's own engineers. It 
would secure almost in its primeval condition the last por- 
tion of Manhattan Island in respect of which this is pos- 
sible. From this beautiful wootled knoll, appearing to us 
to-day almost as it did to Henry Hudson nearly three 
hundred years ago, a more extended view up Hudson River 
can be obtained than from any other part of the Island. 
Besides its landscape beauty, it has many historical associa- 
tions. At the base of the cliffs near Cold Spring is a rock 
habitation in which the aborigines dwelt, as was proven by 
implements and utensils excavated therefrom, and now pre- 
served in the Museum of Natural History. Around it are 
scattered extensive shell heaps left by the Indians who 
belonged to the tribe which attacked Hudson on his return 
from his voyage up the river. On the summit of the hill 
during the Revolution stood the Cock Hill Fort. 

We are proud to think that New York has already 
taken its place as a metropolitan city. We point with satis- 
faction to the mammoth strides with which its population 
grows. We anticipate in the near future the time when 
every available part of the Island will be used to meet the 
needs for residence and business of those who wish to make 
New York their home. The tendency has been and will 
continue to be in the direction of density of population. 
What our people need at the present time , what as time 
goes on will become more and more necessary, will be open 
spaces which can be used for health and diversion. Nature 
provided two such places of exceptional suitability at the 
two ends of the Island, one at the Battery and the other at 
Inwood. The lower end has lost its original character. It 
has lost everything which associates it with the early his- 



May 2 2, 1907 285 

tory of the settlement. The Government House disappeared 
years ago. What is left to us is the Hill at Inwood. 

There has always been a close association between seas 
or rivers and the important cities which have been built 
upon their banks. There will at once occur to our minds 
Thebes and the Nile, Rome and the Tiber, Constantinople 
and the Bosphorus, Vienna and the Danube, Paris and the 
Seine, London and the Thames. Every mile of the Rhine' 
from its source to its mouth is impressed with the history 
of the continental nations of Europe. New York has been 
more bountifully endowed than is the case with any of the 
great capitals, whether of the past or of the present, in the 
fact of the magnificent stream wdiich makes its harbor, which 
brings it into touch with all the rest of the world, and which 
from the first settlement appealed alike to our Dutch, our 
English, and our Colonial ancestors. Its value to us is 
always more and more apparent. The question presented 
by our application is whether there shall be lost to us the 
one historical possibility which goes back to the beginning, 
and which may continue to the end. The difference, in 
respect of which pre-eminence may be claimed for other 
great rivers, is in the history with which they are associated. 
Pardon us if we make too strong an appeal to sentiment 
and civic pride. The work of man's hands is perishable. 
The Coliseum may fall to the ground, the arch of Con- 
stantine crumble into dust. The seven hills of Rome will 
endure forever. 

Permit us to submit that the interest of the City now 
and hereafter, the well-being of the large population which 
is to crowd the upper part of the Island, and suitable regard 
for historical association, for the past, and for patriotic 
feeling, and the urgency which requires that New York 
shall be rounded out in every direction which is consistent 
with its imj^ortance, require the preservation of this Hill. 

When the matter was first considered by the Commis- 
sion it was thought that its application should be for the 
entire Hill from Dyckman Street on the south to its east- 
erly limit, embracing an area of about seventy-five acres. 
The Commission is most anxious to yield to every consid- 
eration of economy wdiich is consistent with the accomplish- 
ment of its purpose. It has come to the conclusion that in 
large measure the purpose which it and many others have 
at heart will be accomplished by reducing the area so as to 
omit the part of the Hill which bounds on the upper side of 
Dyckman Street, and to omit the lower part of the Hill to 
the eastward, thus reducing the area to not very much more 



286 Minutes of Trustees 

than ^ixtv acres. The Commission has caused inquiry _ to 
male' about vak.es and is satisfied, that the acxims:- 
don of this property ought not to mvolve an outlay 
be'^nd $.,000:000. And it must be kept m -"-^ - / 
anV scheme for roads, over or around the Hdl, is to prevail, 
and i the Bridge shall be built, with its necessary ap- 
nroache this will involve a material expenditure which 
.The s;ved to the City when the City becomes the owner 

of the Hill. 

Yours respectfully, 

Stewart L. Woodford, 

President. 

Henrv \\'. Sackett, 

Secretary. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Appointment of Committees Authorized. 
Mr. Fitch offered the following resolution : 
-'Resolved, that the President be authorized to ap- 
point, from time to time, from the Board of Trustees aiul 
from the general membership, of the ^^'''''^}^r^J^\^ 
such committees and sub-committees and consistmg of such 
numbers of members respectively as he sha 1 deem neces- 
sary or advisable; provided, however, that the Comn.ittees 
on Law, on Nominations, on Finance and on Plan and 
Scope shall be made up exclusively from the Board ot 
Trustees Such Committees and Sub-Committees shall have 
such powers and perform such duties as have been here- 
tofore or hereafter may be conferred or imposed upon them 
respectively by the Board of Trustees or the President. 

After a brief explanation by the Secretary, the resolu- 
tion was unanimously adopted. 

Local Celebrations Along the Hudson River. 
The Secretary read the following leUer from Mr. Bay- 
ard L. Peck : 

Hexry W. S.\ckett, Esq., . ^ 

Secretary, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 
Tribune Building. New York City. 

Dear ^Ir. Sackett: . r ., -r 4. ^o 

I had expected to attend the meeting of the trustees 
to-day, but I now find that it will be impossible to do so. 



May 22, 1907 287 

I wish to say a word with reference to the part that 
tlie City of Hudson shall have in the Celebration in 1909. 

As a former resident of Hudson, and one much inter- 
ested in its afifairs, I am desirous that the City should have 
some proper share in the " Up-River Celebration," so called, 
and because of the name of the City, its location at or near 
the termination of Hudson's voyage of discovery, and its 
ancient and honorable history, I think it is deserving of 
especial recognition in the plans for that part of such cele- 
bration. 

The present Mayor, the Hon. Henry Hudson, is, as 
you know, one of our Trustees, and if he be present to-day, 
will, no doubt, be glad to add his words to mine on this 
subject. 

The Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution at Hudson is a very active body of 
patriotic women, who are contemplating, I am told, the erec- 
tion of some memorial to Hudson or Fulton. The dedica- 
tion of that memorial might very well be a part of the 
celebration, the vessels stopping at Hudson for that purpose 
on their return from Newburgh to Albany. 

My object in calling your attention to this matter now 
is that the claims of Hudson may not be overlooked and to 
ask that when the proper Committee takes up the details of 
the celebration for the Upper-Hudson, those of us who are 
interested in the City of Hudson may have an opportunity 
to be heard. 

V'ery truly yours, 

Bayard L. Peck. 

The Secretary stated that in conversation with Mr. 
Peck the latter had expressed the idea that committees be 
appointed to make local arrangements in the City of Hud- 
son and other municipalities along the river for suitable 
celebrations in 1909, and thus enable all the communities 
along the river to participate in the commemoration. 

Mr. Peck's communication was referred to the Special 
Committee on the Dedication of Memorials in conference 
with the Sub-Committee on Naval Parade. 

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. 
HENRY W. SACKETT. 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretarv. 



288 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meetinor 

o 

June 26, 1907 

The seventeenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held in the head- 
quarters in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednes- 
day, June 26, 1907, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present: President Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; 
and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. A. J. Boulton, Mr. George 
V. Brower, Rear Adm. Joseph B. Coghlan, Mr. Theodore 
Fitch, ]\Ir. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward H. Hall, Hon. 
Warren Higley, Mr. William McCarroll, Mr. William J. 
McKay. Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Bayard L. 
Peck, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, ]\Ir. Herman Ridder, Mr. 
Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Col. John 
W. Vrooman, and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. William J. Curtis, 
Mr. George A. Hearn, Gen. Horatio C. King, Dr. George 
Frederick Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Hon. Seth Low, 
Rear Admiral George W. Melville, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. 
John E. Parsons, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Col. Herbert 
L. Satterlee, Pres. J. G. Schurman, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Hon. Andrew D. White, Hon. Wil- 
liam R. Willcox, and ]\Ir. Charles R. Wilson, and they were 
excused. 

Approval of Minutes Deferred. 

The Secretary stated that since the last meeting a com- 
munication had been received from the Comptroller which 



June 26, 1907 289 

indicated that it might be necessary to have the printing of 
the Commission done by the State printer at Albany in- 
stead of by an unofficial printer in New York City as here- 
tofore; and that the minutes of the last meeting had not 
been printed pending a decision of the question. As the 
minutes were somewhat lengthy, it was voted to postpone 
their approval until the next meeting of the Trustees, by 
which time it was expected they would have been printed 
and sent to the members. 

Treasurer's Report, June 26, igoy. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
was read as follows : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 

Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to report the state of the Treasury, 
June 26, 1907, as follows: 

PREVIOUS BALANCE. 

Balance on hand as per report of April 24, 1907. . .$1,694.36 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

\"oucher. 

30. Polhemus Printing Co., printing. . . . $27.25 

31. Henry Romeike, Inc., clippings 1.35 

2,2. E. H. Hall, disbursements.. . . $6.66 

E. H. Hall, salary for April. . 208.33 

214.99 



2,2,- Polhemus Printing Co., printing. . . . 38.00 
34. New York Law Journal, advertising. 2.50 



284.09 
Balance on hand June 26, 1907 $1,410.27 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 



290 Minutes of Trustees 

Bills Approved for Payment. 

The following bills were approved for payment snbject 
to examination and approval by the Finance Committee : 

Polhemus Printing Co., 1,000 envelopes $3-25 

Polhemus Printing Co., i doz. pads writing paper.. i.io 

Polhemus Printing Co., 3 lots labels for file cases. . i.oo 

Polhemus Printing Co., 4 letter-files i.oo 

Polhemus Printing Co., 500 letter-heads for Presi- 
dent's office 3.50 

Miss J. A. Cooke, duplicating 60 copies, 8 pp., re- 
port of Plan and Scope Committee for the Press. 6.00 

John Wanamaker, 7 cuspidors 9.45 

John Wanamaker, 2 door-mats 6.53 

J. Jos. Conlon, lettering office doors 18.85 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $43-25 

E. H. Hall, salary for June 208.^3 

^ 251.58 



$302.26 

Death of Mr. JV. L. Gnillaiidcn and Brig. Gen. Henry S. 

Tnrrill. 

The Secretary announced with great regret the death of 
Mr. W. L. Guillaudeu which occurred on J\Iarch 22d, and 
the death of Brig. Gen. Henry S. Turrill, U. S. A., re- 
tired, which occurred on May 24th. 

It was voted that the decease of these members of the 
Commission be recorded in the printed minvites, together 
with an expression of the sincere sorrow of the Trustees 
and of their sense of loss which the Commission has sus- 
tained. 

Appointment of Mr. U^alter G. Hudson. 

The Secretary read a communication from the Secre- 
tary of the Mayor, dated June 18, 1907, communicating the 
appointment of Mr. Walter G. Hudson of No. 63 Wall 
street, New York City, as a member of the Commission. 

It was voted that the comnumication be received and 
placed on file and that the name of Mr. Hudson be added 
to the list of members of the Commission. 



June 26, 1907 291 

The Holland Society's Proposed Statue of IVilliam The 

Silent. 
The Secretary read a letter from Dr. D. B. St. John 
Roosa, Chairman of the Holland Society's Committee on 
Statue of William the Silent, as follows : 

Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, 
Chairman, 
Ter-Centennial Commission, &c. 
My Dear Sir: 

As Chairman of the Committee of the Holland Society, 
to erect a Statue of William the Silent to commemorate 
the discovery and colonization of New York by the Dutch, 
I desire officially to respectfully call the attention of your 
Ter-Centenary Committee to this effort of our Society, in 
order, if matters so shape themselves, that the inaugura- 
tion of this Statue may form a part of the exercises of the 
great Celebration of the Settlement of our City and State. 

It may be proper and pertinent to the subject to state 
that William the Silent, although himself not a native of 
Holland, was chosen by the Society after mature delibera- 
tion, because, as the leader of the Dutch nation to freedom, 
he seemed the proper subject to embody the principles of 
the Dutch people, which, under his guidance, came to the 
promulgation and establishment of religious toleration and 
political freedom, not only in Holland and her colonies, but 
also in the major part of the civilized world. The ideals 
of William the Silent, in these respects, have been realized 
here on the banks of the river which Dutch ships discovered 
and where descendants of men who fought and died for 
their convictions made their homes and still form a goodly 
and influential part of the population. 

I send herewith a photograph of the model of the 
Statue, the work of which is being done by Mr. Henry M. 
Shrady, whose statues of Gen. Grant and of George Wash- 
ington may be known by your Committee. The model is 
nearly completed, and, no doubt, the statue will be ready 
by the time the celebration, under the auspices of your 
Committee, will take place. 

The total cost is to be forty thousand dollars, a large 
part of which has been raised, and is in our Treasury, in 
part, with written promises for the remainder. 

Our Committee respectfully requests that you will give 
due consideration to the placing of this Statue, in accord- 
ance with the general scheme of the Ter-Centenary Cele- 



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bration, as determined, or to be determined by your Com- 
mittee. 

In behalf of the Committee on Statue to William the 
Silent of the Holland Society, I am, my dear sir, with 
great regard, 

Yours sincerely, 
( Sgd. ) D. B. St. John Roosa, 

Chairman. 
Committee : 

George M. Van Hoesen, Tunis G. Bergen, 

Samuel D. Coykendall, John R. \^an Wormer, 

Warner Van Norden, Albert Ya.n der \^eer. 

The Secretary also read the acknowledgment of the 
foregoing by the President of the Commission, dated June 
ist. 

Dr. Roosa's letter was referred to Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Chairman of the Committee on Memorials. 

A'fluiiiiafloiis for Appointuicnt to the Coinmission. 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on 
Nominations, presented a report recommending as members 
of the Commission, to be appointed by the ]\Iayor, the fol- 
lowing named gentlemen : 

Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, U. S. N., Brooklyn 
Navy Yard. 

Mr. Charles R. Norman, 1 1 Broadway, New York. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, ^iq Broadway, New York. 

Col. John J. McCook, i West 54th Street, New York. 

Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 965 Fifth ^A.venue, New York. 

Mr. Elias S. A. de Lima, 24 State Street, New York. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 43 Cedar Street, New York. 

Hon. John Sergeant Wise, 20 Broad Street, New York. 

Mr. George Clinton Batcheller, 696 Broadway, New 
York. 

Capt. Richard Henry Greene, 235 Central Park West, 
New York. 

Mr. Clarence E. Leonard, 44 East 23rd Street, New 
York. 

Mr. John Claflin, 15 Washington Scjuare North. New 
York. 

Hon. Elbridge T. Gerry, 258 Broadway, New York. 



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Mr. Fitch moved that the report be adopted and that 
the names mentioned therein be recommended to the ^layor. 
The motion was carried. 

Admiral Coghlan moved that the Hon. Paul ]\Iorton, 
ex-Secretary of the Na\}', be recommended to the flavor 
for appointment as a member of the Commission. The 
nomination was seconded and referred to the Committee on 
Nominations. 

Report of the Coimiilttee on Plan and Seof^c. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the Committee on Plan and 
Scope, presented the following report and moved that the 
report be accepted and spread upon the minutes ; and that 
copies be sent to every member of the Commission with the 
request that each one study the report carefully during the 
summer and make any suggestion in regard to it that may 
occur to him ; and that final action on the report be de- 
ferred until the meeting of the Trustees in October. The 
motion was carried. 

The report is as follows : 

Report of the Committ^ie on Plan and Scope. 

New York, June 26, 1907. 
To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission. 

During the year which has elapsed since the presenta- 
tion of the Preliminary Report of the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee on June 13, 1906, this Committee has had the valu- 
able advice and cooperation of the sub-committees to which 
its various recommendations were submitted and has 
greatly been aided by the intelligent discussion of the 
subject by the public press. Thus assisted, it feels pre- 
pared now to submit a more definite plan of celebration. 

We therefore respectfully recommend that the celebra- 
tion of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hud- 
son River by Henry Hudson together with the looth anni- 
versary of the first practical application of steam to naviga- 
tion by Robert Fulton, be commemorated by an eight-day 
celebration commencing on Saturday, September 18. 1909, 
and ending on the following Saturday, September 25, as 
follows : 



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RELIGIOUS SERVICE DAVS. 

(Saturday, Sept. i8th and Sunday. September 19th, 1909.) 
Services in places of public worship. 

RECEPTION DAY. 

(Monday. September 20th.) 

General decoration of public and private buildings for 
the week, from New York to the head of the river. 

Rendezvous of American and foreign naval vessels at 
New York. 

" Half Moon " enters river, formally received and 
takes her place in line. 

" Clermont "' starts from original slip amid appropriate 
exercises and takes position. 

Visiting guests disembark and are received at the 
Robert Fulton Memorial Water Gate at Riverside Park. 

Dedication of Robert Fulton Memorial Gate. 

Typical Indian Village at Inwood established by Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History. 

Official Banquet in evening to guests, Governor of 
State and Mayors of Hudson River Cities at some suitable 
place. 

HISTORICAL DAY. 

(Tuesday, September 21st.) 

Visiting guests shown about City, making circuit of 
island by boat, and land excursions by automobiles. 

Commemorative exercises by day in Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York University, College of City of New York, 
Cooper Union, University of St. John at Fordham, Hebrew 
University, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Public 
Schools, Historical Societies, and all the universities, col- 
leges and institutions of learning throughout the State of 
New York. 

Exhibits of paintings, prints, books, models, relics, etc., 
by Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of 
Natural History, Hispano-American Museum, New York 
Public Library, New York Historical Society, Webb's 
School for Shipbuilders, New York Yacht Club, etc. 

Free lectures in 150 centers under auspices of Board 
of Education (Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Supervisor). 

Official literary exercises in evening in every borough : 
Manhattan, in Metropolitan Opera House; Brooklyn, in 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences ; Queens, in place 
to be determined ; Richmond, in place to be determined ; 
Bronx, in place to be determined. 



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LAND PARADE DAY. 

(Wednesday, September 22nd.) 
Land Parade, participated in by United States Army, 
Navy and Marine Corps; National Guard; Naval Militia; 
Historical Society floats; Labor, Industrial and Manu- 
facturing floats; various other civic organizations. In 
evening, reception to guests on Governor's Island. 

DEDICATION DAY. 

(Thursday, September 23rd.) 

Dedication of Parks and [Memorials along the river : 
Inwood Hill Park, Hudson-^Iemorial Bridge, Palisades 
Drive, A'erplanck's Point Park, Statue of William the 
Silent erected by the Holland Society, and other parks or 
memorials along the river. 

Tablets in New York, Albany and other cities. 

Reception to visiting guests at West Point during the 



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Aquatic sports on Hudson River. 

Alusical festival in evening, in place to be selected. 



HUDSON RIVER DAY. 

(Friday, September 24th.) 

Naval parades start from New York and Albany and 
meet at Newburgh : American naval vessels, foreign naval 
vessels, " Half ]\Ioon," " Clermont." merchant marine, pleas- 
ure craft. 

Salutes to " Half Moon " and " Clermont " from West 
Point and other places where cannon can be fired as pro- 
cession passes. 

Fetes of townspeople along the river from New York 
to Newburgh. 

Exercises at Newburgh : Reception on land ; formal 
delivery of " Half IVIoon " and " Clermont '" to North Hud- 
son division. 

ILLUMINATION DAY. 

(Saturday, [September 25th.) 

Naval parades return to Albany and New York. 

Salutes from upper Hudson cities to " Half Moon " 
and " Clermont " as they pass. 

Fetes of townspeople from Newburgh to Albany. 

Children's fetes in parks and playgrounds. 

Illumination of fleet and public and private buildings 
in New York, and pyrotechnical displays. 



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Illumination, pyrotechnics an 1 special local exercises 
in Albany. 

Chain of signal tires at 9 p. m. from Coney Island to 
Albany. 



It is believed by your committee that the propriety of 
the various features suggested in the foregoing outline will 
be sufficiently apparent without extended explanations. The 
following brief observations concerning certain features, 
howe\'er. niax be added. 



THE DATE. 

The date selected combines historical propriety and 
popidar convenience. Hudson reached his " farthest north " 
in the exploration of the river with the " Half Moon '" on 
September igth, i6o(;, and starte 1 down stream on his 
return voyage on September 23rd. The days selected for 
the celebration therefore embrace the 300th anniversary of 
the culmination of his great voyage. They will also occur 
at a convenient season of the year for those returning from 
their summer's outings. While the epoch marking first trip 
of Fulton's " Clermont " was made in August, 1807. pro- 
priety is lent to its commemoration in 1909, not only by 
the fact that Hudson's and Fulton's achievements are indis- 
solubly wedded to the same great water course, but also by 
the fact that in 1809 the Legislature of the State of New 
York was so convinced of the practicability and value of 
Fulton's invention, that it granted him a monopoly of the 
navigation of the river. This act led to the famous suit of 
Gibbons versus Ogden, the decision of which established the 
principal of freedom of navigation. 

With respect to the probabilitv of fair weather during the 
week selected, we are assured by the Unite 1 States Mete- 
orological authorities that the popular superstition about the 
so-called " equinoctial storm "' is without warrant in fact, 
and the view that there is no greater likelihood of a storm 
on September 21 than on any other day a week before or 
after is held throughout the Weather Bureau. As to New 
York City in particular. Forecaster Emery informs us, after 
an examination of the records for a number of years, that 
rain has been less frequent during the week in question 
than in the preceding one, while the week following, be- 



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ginning September 2^] has had still fewer rainy days. We 
therefore feel reasonably assured as to the probable con- 
dition of the weather for the week chosen. 

RELIGIOUS SERVICE DAYS. 

We are of the opinion that in arranging for the celebra- 
tion we should not overlook the Divine guidance in the two 
great events to be commemorated, one of which opened up 
our State to modern civilization and led to the founding of 
the City of New York, and the other of which laid the 
foundation for the vast commerce upon which the pros- 
perity of the City and State so largely depends. We have 
therefore set apart the first two days for religious obser- 
vance by those who are accustomed to worship on Saturday 
and Sunday. 

RECEPTION DAY. 

The secular observances are planned to begin on ^Monday, 
the 20th, with the rendezvous of naval vessels, and the 
official reception of guests of honor. Formalities in con- 
nection with reproductions of the historic vessels " Half 
Aloon "' and " Clermont " will be picturesque and instructive 
features of the aquatic portion of the programme. 

The recommendation concerning the dedication of the 
Robert Fulton Memorial Water Gate is subject, of course, to 
the concurrence of the Robert Fulton Memorial Association 
wdiich has undertaken its erection and with whom it is our 
cordial desire to cooperate in every practical way. It is 
placed thus early in the programme both as a matter of 
propriety and as a deference to the public spirited men who 
have generously assumed the responsibility of erecting this 
memorial. 

TJie cooperation of the ethnological department of the 
American Aluseum of Natural History is invited in the re- 
creation of a typical Indian village on the site of the ab- 
original shell heaps at the Indian rock habitation at Inwood 
Hill. It is thought that this can be done with Indians from 
the New York State reservations and will prove of high 
educational value. 

This day wdll close with an official banquet in New York 
City in the evening. 

HISTORICAL DAY. 

Tuesday, the 21st, is essentially an educational day. de- 
signed to be participated in by the Universities, colleges, 
schools, museums and learned societies throughout the 



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whole state. While the commemoration of 1909 must, from 
geographical considerations, largely center around the Hud- 
son river, the glory and the material benefits of Hudson's 
and Fulton's achievements are the heritage of the people of 
the entire State, and the programme for Historical Day 
affords a practical means for a general observance of the 
occasion from one end of the State to the other. 

The day will culminate in New York City wdth official 
literary meetings in the evening in each of the five Boroughs, 
at which provision will be made for orations by men of 
national reputation. 

LAND PARADE DAY. 

The programme for Wednesday, the 22nd, is arranged with 
a view to giving in addition to military pageantry, ample 
scope for the exhibition of the arts of peace. With his- 
torical and allegorical floats illustrating the past history 
of the City and State, and similar exhibits illustrating the 
contemporary genius of labor and industry, as expressed in 
the various arts and crafts of our people, we believe that 
New York can produce a pageant which for beauty and in- 
structiveness will excel any of the famous spectacles of 
the European carnivals. 

An evening reception to the official guests at the head- 
quarters of the Department of the East on Governor's 
Island is suggested as the closing event of the day if it 
proves agreeable to the authorities. 

DEDICATION DAY. 

Soon after the Commission was formed, a World's Fair 
at or near New York City was suggested. After giving 
several public hearings the subject was referred to the 
Plan and Scope Committee, wdio, in their preliminary re- 
port (page 115 of the printed Minutes), expressed the be- 
lief that the country had been surfeited with such tem- 
porary celebrations and voiced the hope that the celebration 
of 1909 would be conducted on a plan which would leave 
monumental works of lasting benefit to the people. During 
the past year the ideas thus expressed appear to have become 
the policy of the Commission, and the recent unequivocal 
expressions of approval by the leading newspapers of this 
and other States tend to confirm the wisdom of such a 
course. 

We therefore recommend that Thursdav in Celebration 
Week be devoted to the dedication of parks and memorials 
along the Hudson river; and that between now and then, 



June 26, 1907 299 

the most earnest efforts be made to secure not only the 
great memorials like Inwood Hill Park, the Hudson 
Memorial Bridge, the \'erplanck's Point Park, the com- 
pletion of the Palisades Drive, etc., but also that the civic 
pride of various communities along the river be invoked 
to participate in like manner according to their means. We 
also recommend that the interest of the numerous his- 
torical and patriotic societies be enlisted for the erection of 
monuments and tablets, so that the history of the Hudson 
\'alley may be written in stone and bronze from the site of 
old Fort Amsterdam to the site of old Fort Orange. 

The aquatic sports mentioned in the programme for 
Dedication Day are designed in the first instance for friendly 
competitions between the crews of the naval vessels, but 
may embrace motor boat races and such other amusements 
as may seem practicable and desirable. 

A music festival in some large auditorium is proposed 
for the evening event of this day. 

HUDSON RIVER DAY. 

Friday, the 24th, is devoted to the Naval Parade and in- 
cidental ceremonies. It appears to be practicable for some 
of our naval vessels to proceed as far north as Xewburgh 
Bay. We have therefore planned to have as many vessels 
of the navy, merchant marine, excursion boats, and pleas- 
ure craft as possible go from New York to Newburgh, 
taking with them the fac -similes of the " Half INIoon " and 
" Clermont." In order that the inhabitants of the country 
on either side of the river may see the parade and the repro- 
ductions of the historic vessels, we recommend that the day 
be devoted by them to fetes champetres along the river- 
sides from New York to Newburgh. As the procession 
passes up the river, salutes may be fired from eligible points. 

Simultaneously with the advance of the Southern Hudson 
Division, we recommend a counter-procession from Albany 
to Newburgh, the two divisions meeting and holding appro- 
priate ceremonies at Newburgh. The delivery of the " Half 
]\Ioon " and " Clermont " to the North Hudson Division 
would form a feature of these exercises. 

ILLUMIN.\TION DAY. 

Saturday, the two divisions of the Naval Parade will re- 
turn to their respective starting points, the people residing 
north of Newburgh holding open air fetes at convenient 



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places along the river, which will enable them to see and 
salute the " Half Moon " and " Clermont " as they pass. 

In all the cities this will be peculiarly the Children's Day, 
devoted to fetes in public and private parks and play- 
grounds. The fertility of the youthful minds as displayed 
in their May Party and Thanksgiving Day observances sug- 
gests that these Children's Festivals may develop into one 
of the most interesting and picturesque features of the cele- 
bration. 

The whole celebration will culminate in New York with 
an illumination of the fleet and public and private buildings, 
and pyrotechnic display, and in Albany with similar illu- 
minations and special local exercises ; while the whole river 
will be connected by a chain of signal fires from moimtain- 
tops and other eligible points, lighted at a given hour. Dis- 
plays of fireworks at various points, notably on the great 
bridges as in the fetes of the 14th of July in Paris, can be 
seen by hundreds of thousands of people and will give great 
pleasure to the masses. For the signal fires, the coopera- 
tion of the inhabitants and authorities of dififerent localities 
is confidently expected and relied upon. It is believed that 
each one will select suitable points where such bonfires may 
be conspicuous and yet compatible with safety to property; 
and that the public spirit of the community will inspire its 
members with zeal for collecting the materials, and firing 
the piles at the same hour, on receipt of an electric signal 
flashed at 9 p. m. along both shores of the river. 

THESE RECOMMENDATIONS NOT EXCLUSIVE. 

In making the foregoing recommendations, your Com- 
mittee does not regard them as excluding any other appro- 
priate and practicable features which may be recommended 
from time to time, for doubtless many very excellent new 
ideas will be suggested before the anniversary year arrives. 
But we believe that the plan is sufficiently definite and com- 
prehensive to serve as a working basis for the beginning of 
practical preparations. With a view to the reception and 
consideration of further recommendations from any source, 
the Trustees may deem it advisable to continue the Plan and 
Scope Committee as a standing Committee of the Commis- 
sion. 

We recommend that the various sub-committees of the 
Plan and Scope Committee, which have so ably co-operated 
in the preparation of the foregoing programme, be dis- 
charged as sub-committees, and be reappointed as full work- 



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ing committees, together with such other committees as may 
be necessary for the practical working out and execution of 
the details of the celebration. 

All of which is respectfully submitted in behalf of the 
Committee. 

Frederick W. Seward, Chairman. 
Committee : 

Frederick W. Seward, E. E. Olcott, 

James M. Beck, John E. Parsons, 

Frederick D. Grant, . Aaron Vanderbilt, 

George F. Kunz, Samuel B. Ward, 

Seth Low, Stewart L. Woodford. 

By unanimous consent the Secretary was authorized 
to give the report to press. 

Rcf'ort of Sub-Coiu>nittcc on Date. 

Mr. AlcCarroll, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on 
Date of Celebration, presented the following report. In 
doing so, he explained that it had been prepared after a 
conference held June 13th with the Chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Plan and Scope and the Chairman of the other 
sub-committees. The Sub-Committee on Date did not con- 
sider it a part of its duties to make recommendations con- 
cerning the various features of the celebration, and the 
brief references to such features in his report, merely fol- 
lowed the recommendations of the Plan and Scope Report, 
and were for the purpose of showing the requirements for 
the eight days recommended at the close of his report. The 
report reads as follows : 

To the Commission : 

Following a preliminary report rendered at a previous 
meeting of the Commission your Committee has now to 
submit a more complete one. 

Our recommendation is that the time of the celebration 
be fixed as the week commencing Saturday, September 
eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, and that upon that 
day and the next — Sunday, the nineteenth — there should 
be held appropriate services in places of public worship. 
On 

Monday there should be the rendezvous of vessels, re- 
ception of the distinguished visitors and guests and appro- 



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priate ceremonies, an-l in the evening an official banquet at 
such place as may be later determined to be best. On 

Tuesday the visiting guests should be conveyed about the 
City. ^lemorial exercises should be held in universities 
and schools in the City and State, and by historical so- 
cieties, with exhibitions in museums ; also lectures in a 
number of centers and official literary exercises in the 
several boroughs. On 

Wednesday the land parade, military and civic, should 
take place and in the evening a reception to guests at Gov- 
ernor's Island. On 

Thursday dedication of parks and memorials. On 

Friday naval parades, starting simultaneously from New 
York and Albany to meet at Newburgh. There should be 
public gatherings and fetes at different points along the 
river and a reception and exercises at Newburgh in the 
evening. 

Saturday, the tinal day, should conclude the naval parade. 
In the evening the fleet should be illuminated at New York 
and at x\lbany, with special exercises at the latter point, and 
signal fires at local intervening points along the river, the 
day to be of a holiday character. 

Your Committee in thus alluding to the features of each 
day does so simply by way of iu'lication, the date being the 
only matter for consideration by this Committee. The 
other sub-Committees in whose charge are the several ar- 
rangements will doubtless report specifically with detail and 
the whole be merged in the final complete program. Your 
Committee, therefore, sttbmits this outline in recognition of 
the appropriateness of the order of celebration on the days 
mentioned, antl for your action submits the following reso- 
kition : 

Resolved, That the celebration be arranged to commence 
on Saturday, September eighteenth, and, continuing in its 
several features, daily during the ensuing week, conclude on 
Saturday evening. September twenty-fifth, nineteen hun- 
dred and nine. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

William McCarroll, Chairman. 
Louis C. Raegener. 
N. Taylor Phillips. 

) 
Mr. Seward stated that the Committee on Plan and 
Scope adopted the dates recommended and their order of 
proceedings was the same. 



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Mr. Ridder moved tliat the report be received and its 
consideration postponed until the October meeting, to be 
taken up then in conjunction with the Plan and Scope re- 
port. Carried. 

Proposed Auicnduiciit to City Cliartcf. 

The Secretary laid before the Commission a copy oV 
the flavor's veto of Senate Bill Xo. 964 (Int. No. 786) en- 
titled "An Act to amend the Greater Xew York Charter 
relative to the protection of the grountls and properties of 
educational institutions." He stated that the object of the 
bill was to prevent the City of New York from extending 
Riverside Drive or opening any other streets through the 
grounds of the ]\It. St. \dncent Academy which are located 
within and adjacent to the northern boundary of the City 
of New York and bordering on the Hudson river. He ex- 
plained that if the Charter were amended as proposed and 
the extension of Riverside Drive prevented it might inter- 
fere with the great system of riverside drives which it is 
proposed to build from Xew York to A'erplanck's Point on 
one side of the river and from Stony Point to the Palisades 
Park on the opposite side. He made no motion upon the 
subject, however. 

The President of the Commission read letters which he 
had written upon the subject as a citizen, in which, while 
expressing accord with the Mayor's veto, he seriously 
questioned the propriety of action by this Commission upon 
any such question. 

Mr. Bayard L. Peck stated that as counsel for the Mt. 
St. A'incent Academy, he had drawn up the bill and believed 
that it would do no harm to any public interests. 

Upon motion of Mr. Brower and seconded by ^Ir. 
Seward, the papers in regard to the case were laid upon the 
table. 

.S"/.r Months Art Exhibition Rcconnnciidcd. 

At the request of Dr. George F. Kunz, who was un- 
avoidably absent, the Assistant Secretary communicated 
the former's recommendation that as a feature of the cele- 



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bration, there be opened in the Metropohtan Mnseum of 
Art an exhibition of paintings of the Dutch school on gen- 
eral subjects, and paintings by other artists on subjects re- 
lating to Henry Hudson. Robert Fulton an 1 tlieir times. 
He believed that such an exhibition of works owne 1 by an 1 
loaned to the !^Iuseum, and continued for six montlxS, would 
bring together the most remarkable collection of piciures of 
its kind in this country and would be a notable event in 
the world of American art. Dr. Kunz tendere.l his co- 
operation in arranging for such an exhil)iti()n. Referre 1 to 
the Committee on Plan and Scope. 

Adjourned Until October 2^^, igoj. 

Judge Higley moved that the regular meetings of the 
Trustees in the months of July, August and Septeml)er be 
omitted, and that wdien the meeting should adjourn, it be 
until A\'ednesday. October it^, 1907. unless previously called 
together by the President. Carried. 

The President thanked the Trtistees for their support 
and cooperation during the past year. He said he be- 
lieved that an interest is being aroused in New York that 
will give tis a great celebration, worthy of the City an 1 
State and creditable io the Commission. He wishe 1 the 
Trtistees a pleasant summer, and expressed the hope that 
all would be spared to meet and resume their duties in the 
tall. 

Admiral Coghlan moved that the meeting adjourn. 
Carried. 

Adjourned until Wednesday, October 23. 1907. 

HENRY W. SACKETT. 

Secretary. 
Edward Hag.\max Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Herbert Adams. 
John G. A^ar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. Jolin E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
George V. Broiver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Graver Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

lan. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
Tames de la Montayne. 
E. S. A. deLima. 
I^on. C. M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
Gforg-f G. rifU'itt. 
Hon. William Draper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 
George Ehret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Arthur English. 
Most Rev. John M, 

Farley. 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 
Barr Ferrec. 



Stuyvesant Fish. 
Theodore Fitch. 
Winchester Fitch. 
Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk. S. Flower. 
Thomas Powell Fowler. 
Austen G. Fox. 
Hon. Chas. S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 
Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 
George J . Gould. 
Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
Cant. R. H. Greene. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
Hon. Edward M. Gront. 
Abner S. Haight. 
Edw. Hagaman Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 

Tames A. Hearn. 
Peter Coojier Hewitt. 
//o>i. IVnrren Hiff!--y. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel Vcrplanck Hoff- 
man. 

Tames P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Hoyt. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 

Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

T. D. Huntting. 

August F. Jarcaci. 

Col. William Jay. 

Morris K. Jesup. 

Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. T'Cetcham. 

Gt'n. Horatio C. King. 

Albert E. Kleinert. 

Dr. Gcorf.e F. Kuns. 

John LaFarge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

Frederick S. Lamb. 

Homer I^ee. 

Charles W. Lefler. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss. 

Dr. Henry M. Leipsiger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

Herman T.ivingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

Flon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seth Low. 

R. I'ulton Ludlow. 

William A. Marble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 



Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. John J. McCook. 
Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 
Hon. St. Clair McKel- 

way. 
Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Com. Jacob 11'. MilUr. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogdcn Mills. 
J. Picrpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm. C. Muschenheim. 
Nathan Newman. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Ludwig Nissen. 
Hon. Lewis Nixon. 
Chas. R. Norman. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
Wm. Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard ' L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Howland Pell. 

Geo. W. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. PugS- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. ^. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W. Sackctt. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henrv Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 

Chas. A. Schermerhorn. 

Jacob H. Schiflf. 

'Prcst. Jacob G. Schur- 
man. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

L^aac N. Seiieman. 

Louis Seligslnirg. 

Hon. Toseph H. renner. 

Hon. Fred'k. \V. Seivard. 

ITon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

/. Edward Sinvmns. 

John W. Simpson. 

iE. V. Skinner. 



[Names of Trustees in ita!ics:'\ 



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Prof. John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis .Stern. 

Francis Lyndc Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Wm. L. Stone. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

George R. .Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving: Townsend. 

Spencer Trask. 



C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Lt.-Com. Aaron V'anJer- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van 

Dyke. 
Warner Van Norden. 
IVtn. B. Van Rensselaer. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W. Vrooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 

[Names of Trustees in t'/a/ics.] 



Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Whitney. 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 
Hon. John S. Wise. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 



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(Revised to October 23, 1907.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents: 

Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 

Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Coiniiiittec: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 

Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Andrew Carnegie, George W. Perkins, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Louis C. Raegener, 
RearAdm.J.B.Coghlan,U.S.N., Herman Ridder, 

William J. Curtis, Henry W. Sackett, 

Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, J. Edward Simmons, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Frank D. Millet, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Committee on Lazv: 
Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jav, 

William J. C"rtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, cx-ofEcio. 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway. New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-oMcio. 



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Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York, 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

General Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, cx-oMcio. 

Sub-Committee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

William J. McKay, Com. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, U.S.N., Hon. John H. Starin, 

Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Sub-Committee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 
Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub-Committee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Inzuood: 
John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City, 
William J. Curtis, Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, George W. Perkins, 

Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Vsrplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub-Committee on Date of Celebration: 
Hon. William McCarroll, Chairman, 30 Ferry St., New York. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Louis C. Raegener. 

Sub-Committee on Exhibition of Motive Power: 
Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York City, 

Committee on Co-operation: 
Charles R. Lamb, Chairman, 23 Sixth Avenue, New York City, 
Com. Jacob W. Miller, Henry W, Sackett, 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meetinor 

o 
October 23, 1907. 

The eighteenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held in the headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, Oc- 
tober 23, 1907, at 3 p. M, 

Roll Call. 

Present: President Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; and 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Rear Admiral Joseph B. Cogh- 
lan, U. S. N., Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. 
William McCarroll, Mr. William J. McKay, Mr. Frank D. 
Millet, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Hon. Cornelius A. 
Pugsley, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, and Gen. James Grant 
Wilson ; and also Mr. Nathan Newman, representing Hon. 
A. J. Boulton. 

Excused for Absence. 

(Regrets for absence were received from Mr. George V. 
Brower, Mr. Henry W. Cannon, Major-Gen. Fredk. D. 
Grant, U. S. A., Mr. S. V. Hoffman, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, 
Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Hon. 
Seth Low, Mr. E. E. Olcott, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. 
N. T. Phillips, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Herbert L. Satterlee, President 
J. G. Schurman, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Francis Lynde 
Stetson, Mr. Spencer Trask, and Hon. Andrew D. White 
and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of May 22d and June 26th, having been 
printed and sent to all the members of the Commission, were 
approved as printed. 



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Treasurer's Report, October 2j, ipo/ 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, was 
read as follows : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion, 

Gentlemen : I have the honor to report the state of the 
treasury Oct. 23, 1907, as follows: 

DEBIT. 

To balance on hand as per report of June 26, 

1907 $1,410 27 

To cash received from the State Treasurer on 

July 3, 1907 _ 7.500 00 

To amounts disallowed by Comptroller on ac- 

jcounts Nos. 2, 7, 10, 21, 23, 26, 29, 30 148 73 

To amount disallowed by Comptroller on account 

No. 33 17 95 

Total $9.076 95 

CREDIT. 

35. By paid E. H. Hall, disbursements. '$30 16 
Salary for May, 1907 208 33 

$238 49 

^6. By transfer from Subscription Fund Ac- 
count to State Fund Account of payment 

to E. H. Hall on account of salary from 
April 28 to Aug. 31, 1906, paid Oct. 20, 
1906 76 91 

37. John Wanamaker, cuspidors and door mats. 15 98 

38. J. J. Conlon, lettering ofifice doors 18 85 

39. E. H. Hall, disbursements $43 25 

Salary for June 208 33 

251 58 

40. Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 6 32 

41. Miss J. A. Cooke, duplicating letters 6 00 

Total credit $614 13 

Total debit 9,076 95 

Balance Oct. 23, 1907 $8,462 82 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 



October 23, 1907 313 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment out of the 
State Fund, subject to examination and approval by the 
Finance Committee : 

Edwin J. Kerr, letter copy book $i 50 

Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing letters to 

editors i 55 

Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings, April-Sept. 3, 69 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 9 14 

J. B. Lyon Co., 500 copies of Minutes of May 22 

and June 26 27 62 

J. B. Lyon Co., circulars and stationery 14 62 

E. H. Hall: Disbursements since May. $48 67 

Salary for July, Aug., Sept., and Oct. 833 33 

882 00 



$940 12 



Subscriptions Requested to Pay Certain Printing Bills. 

The President stated that when the Commission was or- 
ganized, and until recently, the Assistant Secretary, upon 
what appeared to be good advice and in order to expedite 
the work of the Commission, had had the printing of the 
Commission done by printers in New York City. When 
the first lot of vouchers was sent to the Comptroller, the 
latter, under date of June 4, 1907, informed the Commission 
that in his opinion the printing of this Commission was " de- 
partmental printing " under the State Printing Law and 
should have been done by the State Printer at Albany. 
The Comptroller further stated that if the Commission 
secured from the State Printers waivers of their claims for 
printing thus far done by unofficial printers, he would allow 
the vouchers at the contract rates, and this has been done. 
The total amount disallowed was $148.73. The sum of 
$76.91, formerly paid out of the Subscription Fund on ac- 
count of Assistant Secretary's salary had been charged to 
the State, thus reducing to $71.82 the amount due the State 
Fund. There was also due to the New York printers the 
sum of $25.34, being the balance due on three bills (Nos. 33, 



314 Minutes of Trustees 

40 and 45) previously contracted but not included in the 
vouchers before alluded to, and which had been subse- 
quently allowed in part by the Comptroller. This made a 
total of $97.16 which it was necessary to raise by subscrip- 
tion. 

It was voted that the 100 Trustees of the Commission 
each be requested to contribute the sum of $1 to pay the 
foregoing accounts. 

Appointments by the Mayor. 

A letter from the mayor of New York, dated July 24, 
1907, was read, communicating the appointment of the fol- 
lowing named gentlemen as members of the Commission, in 
accordance with the recommendation of the last meeting 
(see page 292 of the printed minutes) : Real Admiral 
Caspar F. Goodrich, U. S. N., Mr. Charles R. Norman, 
Gen. Anson G. McCook, Col. John J. McCook, Mr. Jacob 
H. SchiiT, Mr. Elias S. A. de Lima, Hon. Lewis Nixon, 
Hon. John Sergeant Wise, Mr. George Clinton Batcheller, 
Capt. Richard Henry Greene, Mr. Clarence E. Leonard, 
Mr. John Claflin and Hon. Elbridge T. Gerry. 

It was voted that the communication be received and 
placed on file, and that the names of those who had not de- 
clined be placed upon the list of members of the Com- 
mission. 

Declination of Hon. Elbridge T. Gerry. 

A communication dated July 31, 1907, from Hon. El- 
bridge T. Gerry, was read as, follows : 

Newport, Rhode Island, July 31, 1907. 

Henry W. Sackett, Esq., 

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Building, New York City. 

Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of July 26, 1907, advis- 
ing me of my appointment a member of your Commission, 
I beg you will convey to His Honor the Mayor and also 
your Board of Trustees my deep regret that for personal 
reasons I shall be unable to accept the position indicated. 



October 23, 1907 315 

while deeply appreciating the compliment implied by my 
selection. 

I have the honor to remain with great respect, 

Elbridge T. Gerry. 

The letter was received with regret and ordered on file. 

Interest of the Ambassador from the Netherlands. 

A letter from His Excellency Jonkheer R. de Marees van 
Swinderen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary of The Netherlands to the United States, dated 
Washington, D. C, Oct. 20, 1907, and addressed to the 
Secretary, was read as follows : 

LEGATION DES PAYS-BAS. 

Washington, D. C, October 20, 1907. 

Dear Sir : Mr. Cunliffe Owen had given me an introduc- 
tion to you when I called at your office last Saturday. It 
would have given me much pleasure to have a talk with 
you about the coming Hudson-Fulton Celebration, in the 
first part of which my country no doubt will feel highly 
interested. I regretted not to find you, but at my next 
visit to New York I will take liberty to write you before- 
hand in order to secure an appointment. In the meantime 
I would feel much obliged if you would kindly send me a 
few copies of the little pamphlet issued by the H. F. Cele- 
bration Commission, one copy of which I got last Saturday 
at the Commission's office. 

Looking forward to the honor of meeting you in the near 
future 

Sincerely yours, 
Van Swinderen, 
Minister of the Netherlands to the U. S. 

The President expressed the Commission's high apprecia- 
tion of the Ambassador's interest in its work and it was 
voted that the Secretary be requested to make suitable ac- 
knowledgment to His Excellency. 

Plan and Scope Report Adopted. 

The President announced the special order of business to 
be the consideration of the report of the Plan and Scope 



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Committee as presented at the last meeting and printed on 
pages 293 to 301 of the minutes. 

Secretary Seward, Chairman of the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee, stated that since the last meeting wide circulation 
had been given to the report, and comments and suggestions 
had been invited. Special editorial copies had been sent to 
the editors of all the daily and the principal weekly papers 
of the State with a personal letter, asking suggestions from 
the papers and their readers. The comments on the report 
appeared to be universally favorable and it was believed to 
afford a satisfactory basis for practical work. Certain valu- 
able suggestions concerning details had been received and 
were under consideration, and in moving the adoption of the 
report, he did so in the light of the statement near the close 
of the report that the recommendations contained therein 
were not to be regarded as precluding such others as might 
appear to be desirable in the future. 

He therefore moved that the report of the Plan and 
Scope Committee be adopted as the working basis for future 
action, subject to such amendments and changes as the 
Commission may desire hereafter to make. Carried. 

Auxiliary Committees in Cities and Villages. 

Mr. Fitch moved " That the mayors of cities and presi- 
dents of villages along the Hudson and the Mohawk and 
westward to Buffalo, be invited to appoint auxiliary com- 
mittees of their citizens to arrange for celebrating in their 
respective localities in September, 1909, the discovery of the 
Hudson by Henry Hudson and the successful steam naviga- 
tion thereof by Robert Fulton, and to co-operate with the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission therein, such com- 
mittees to include themselves respectively, and to consist of 
such number as they may deem advisable." 

Mr. McKay of Newburgh said that he thought the plan 
suggested was an excellent one. There was already such a 
committee in Newburgh composed of representative citizens, 
ready to co-operate with the Commission at any time. The 
Newburgh Committee was already considering plans for a 



October 23, 1907 317 

local celebration on the occasion of the visit of the fleet in 
1909. 

The motion was carried. 

Mr. Fitch moved that the Secretary be directed to send a 
copy of the foregoing resolution, together with a copy of 
the report of the Plan and Scope Committee, to the mayors 
and presidents of the localities designated, with a letter ex- 
pressing the cordial wish of the Commission that their local 
committees co-operate heartily in securing a successful 
celebration. Carried. 

Constructor Willia})i J. Baxter, U. S. N., Nominated. 

Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on 
Naval Parade, nominated Constructor William J. Baxter, 
U. S. N., for appointment by the mayor as a member of the 
Commission. He stated that his committee had been gather- 
ing data since the last meeting for guidance in constructing 
the facsimiles of the " Half Moon " and " Clermont." The 
Committee included among its members a distinguished engi- 
neer in the person of Admiral Melville, and he said that 
they would be greatly aided by having also a naval con- 
structor. 

The nomination was seconded and referred to the Com- 
mittee on Nominations. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee, reported favor- 
ably on the nomination of Constructor Baxter and it was 
voted that the appointment be recommended to the mayor. 

Loan of Painting from His Majesty, the King of England, 

Requested. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Director of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art and a member of the Executive Committee 
of this Commission, moved that a respectful request be made 
to King Edward VH through the American Ambassador to 
Great Britain, for the loan of John Collier's remarkable 
painting entitled " The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson." 
He stated that this picture belonged to the British Govern- 
ment and was among the paintings of the Chantrey Bequest 



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in the Tate Gallery, Chelsea, London, of which he had 
charge for many years. The canvas was about 6x8 feet 
in size, and it made a deep impression upon him by its 
weird and startling character. It represented Hudson and 
his grandson, as they were set adrift in Hudson's Bay and 
abandoned to their unknown fate by their heartless com- 
panions. It was a picture which would attract attention 
and, once seen, would be remembered. He recommended 
that the application be made through the American Ambas- 
sador, the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, directly to the King, and 
had no doubt but that His Majesty would readily consent, as 
he had loaned to the St. Louis Exposition several things 
which had never before been out of the Kingdom. It 
would take a year at least, he said, for the request to go 
through under the necessary procedure. 

Gen. Wilson very heartily endorsed Sir Purdon's motion. 
When in London recently, he had visited the Tate Gallery, 
and had been so deeply impressed with Collier's painting that 
he had secured a photograph of it. The picture was a 
striking and powerful work of art, and would be of very 
great interest. 

The motion was adopted, and the President appointed 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, the Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
and the Secretary of the Commission, as a special committee 
to take up the matter at once with Ambassador Reid. 

Upon motion by IMr. Fitch, the President of the Commis- 
sion was added as a member of the Committee. 

Art Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. 

The President read from pages 303. and 304 of the printed 
minutes the recommendation of Dr. George Frederick Kunz 
in regard to a six-months art exhibition at the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art in 1909, and he asked Sir Purdon if he had 
exchanged views with Dr. Kunz on the subject. 

Sir Purdon replied that he had had one conference on the 
subject and he expressed the opinion that such an exhibition 
of Dutch paintings and other works of art relating to the 
Colonial period would prove of great public interest. It 



October 23, 1907 319 

would become possible at the Metropolitan Museum, how- 
ever, only in case the new wing were ready, as the present 
Museum was fully occupied ; but he believed that the wing 
would be ready in time for such use. The glass roof was 
expected to be finished by Christmas, 1907, and twelve 
months would be required for plastering. One purpose of 
the new wing was temporary exhibitions of this sort, and he 
thought that this would be a very good way to inaugurate it. 
The meeting then adjourned. 

EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Report of Plan and Scope Committee. 

Owing to the exhaustion of the edition of the printed 
minutes of June 26, 1907, the Report of the Plan and 
Scope Committee, reported on that date and adopted Octo- 
ber 23, 1907, is reprinted herewith from page 293 to page 
301: 

Report of the Committee on Plan and Scope. 

New York, June 26, 1907. 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-FuUon Celebration Com- 
mission : 

During the year which has elapsed since the presenta- 
tion of the Preliminary Report of the Plan and Scope 
Committee on June 13, 1906, this Committee has had the 
valuable advice and co-operation of the subcommittees to 
which its various recommendations were submitted and 
has greatly been aided by the intelligent discussion of the 
subject by the public press. Thus assisted, it feels pre- 
pared now to submit a more definite plan of celebration. 

We therefore respectfully recommend that the celebra- 
tion of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the 
Hudson River by Henry Hudson, together with the looth 
anniversary of the first practical application of steam to 
navigation by Robert Fulton, be commemorated by an 
eight-day celebration commencing on Saturday, Septem- 
ber 18, 1909, and ending on the following Saturday, 
September 25, as follows : 

religious service days. 

(Saturday, Sept. i8th and Sunday, September 19th, 1909.) 
Services in places of public worship. 

reception day. 
(Monday, September 20th.) 

General decoration of public and private buildings for 
the week, from New York to the head of the river. 

Rendezvous of American and foreign naval vessels at 
New York. 

" Half Moon " enters river, formally received and takes 
her place in line. 

" Clermont " starts from original slip amid appropriate 
exercises and takes position. 

Visiting guests disembark and are received at the Robert 
Fulton Memorial Water Gate at Riverside Park, 



October 23, 1907 321 

Dedication of Robert Fulton Memorial Gate. 

Typical Indian Village at Inwood established by Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History. 

Official Banquet in evening to guests, Governor of State 
and Mayors of Hudson River Cities at some suitable place. 

HISTORICAL DAY. 

(Tuesday, September 21st.) 

Visiting guests shown about City, making circuit of 
island by boat, and land excursions by automobiles. 

Commemorative exercises by day in Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York University, College of City of New 
York, Cooper Union, University of St. John at Fordham, 
Hebrew University, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 
ences, Public Schools, Historical Societies, and all the uni- 
versities, colleges and institutions of learning throughout 
the State of New York. 

Exhibits of paintings, prints, books, models, relics, etc., 
by Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of 
Natural History, Hispano-American Museum, New York 
Public Library, New York Historical Society, Webb's 
School for Shipbuilders, New York Yacht Club, etc. 

Free lectures in 150 centers under auspices of Board 
of Education (Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Supervisor). 

Official literarv exercises in evening in every borough : 
Manhattan, in Metropolitan Opera House; Brooklyn, in 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences ; Queens, in place 
to be determined ; Richmond, in place to be determined ; 
Bronx, in place to be determined. 

LAND PARADE DAY. 

(Wednesday, September 22d.) 

Land Parade, participated in by United States Army, 
Navy and Marine Corps ; National Guard ; Naval Militia ; 
Historical Society floats; Labor, Industrial and Manu- 
facturing floats : various other civic organizations. 

In evening, reception to guests on Governor's Island. 

DEDICATION DAY. 

(Thursday, September 23rd.) 

Dedication of Parks and Memorials along the river : 
Inwood Hill Park, Hudson-Memorial Bridge, Palisades 
Drive, Verplanck's Point Park, Statue of WiUiam the 



32 2 Minutes of Trustees 

Silent erected by the Holland Society, and other parks and 
memorials along the river. 

Tablets in New York, Albany and other cities. 

Reception to visiting guests at West Point during the 
day. 

Aquatic sports on Hudson River. 

Musical festival in evening, in place to be selected. 



HUDSON RIVER DAY. 

(Friday, September 24th.) 

Naval parades start from New York and Albany and 
meet at Newburgh : American naval vessels, foreign naval 
vessels, " Half Moon," " Clermont," merchant marine, 
pleasure craft. 

Salutes to " Half Moon " and " Clermont " from West 
Point and other places where cannon can be fired as pro- 
cession passes. 

Fetes of townspeople along the river from New York 
to Newburgh. 

Exercises at Newburgh : Reception on land ; formal de- 
livery of " Half Moon " and " Clermont " to North 
Hudson division. 

ILLUMINATION DAY. 

(Saturday, September 25th.) 

Naval parades return to Albany and New York. 

Salutes from upper Hudson cities to " Half Moon " and 
" Clermont " as they pass. 

Fetes of townspeople from Newburgh to Albany. 

Children's fetes in parks and playgrounds. 

Illumination of fleet and public and private buildings 
in New York, and pyrotechnical displays. 

Illumination, pyrotechnics and special local exercises in 
Albany. 

Chain of signal fires at 9 p. m. from Coney Island to 
Albany. 



It is believed by your committee that the propriety of 
the various features suggested in the foregoing outline will 
be sufificiently apparent without extended explanations. 
The following brief observations concerning certain fea- 
tures, however, may be added. 



October 23, 1907 323 

THE DATE. 

The date selected combines historical propriety and 
popular convenience. Hudson reached his " farthest 
north " in the exploration of the river with the " Half 
Moon " on September 19, 1609, and started down stream 
on his return voyage on September 23rd. The days se- 
lected for the celebration therefore embrace the 300th 
anniversary of the culmination of his great voyage. They 
will also occur at a convenient season of the year for those 
returning from their summer's outings. While the epoch 
marking first trip of Fulton's " Clermont "• was made in 
August, 1807, propriety is lent to its commemoration in 
1909, not only by the fact that Hudson's and Fulton's 
achievements are indissolubly wedded to the same great 
water course, but also by the fact that in 1809 the Legisla- 
ture of the State of New York was so convinced of the 
practicability and value of Fulton's invention, that it 
granted him a monopoly of the navigation of the river. 
This act led to the famous suit of Gibbons versus Ogden, 
the decision of which established the principal of freedom 
of navigation. 

With respect to the probability of fair weather during 
the week selected, we are assured by the United States 
Meteorological authorities that the popular superstition 
about the so-called " equinoctial storm " is without war- 
rant in fact, and the view that there is no greater likelihood 
of a storm on September 21 than on any other day a week 
before or after is held throughout the Weather Bureau. 
As to New York City in particular. Forecaster Emery in- 
forms us after an examination of the records for a number 
of years, that rain has been less frequent during the week 
in question than in the preceding one, while the week fol- 
lowing, beginning September 27 has had still fewer rainy 
days. We therefore feel reasonably assured as to the 
probable condition of the weather for the week chosen. 



RELIGIOUS SERVICE DAYS. 

We are of the opinion that in arranging for the celebra- 
tion we should not overlook the Divine guidance in the 
two great events to be commemorated, one of which 
opened up our State to modern civilization and led to the 
founding of the City of New York, and the other of which 
laid the foundation for the vast commerce upon which the 
prosperity of the City and State so largely depends. We 
have therefore set apart the first two days for religious 



324 Minutes of Trustees 

observance by those who are accustomed to worship on 
Saturday and Sunday. 



RECEPTION DAY. 

The secular observances are planned to begin on Mon- 
day, the 20th, with the rendezvous of naval vessels, and the 
official reception of guests of honor. Formalities in con- 
nection with reproduction of the historic vessels *' Half 
Moon " and " Clermont " will be picturesque and instruc- 
tive features of the aquatic portion of the programme. 

The recommendation concerning the dedication of the 
Robert Fulton Memorial Water Gate is subject, of course, 
to the concurrence of the Robert Fulton Memorial Associ- 
ation which has undertaken its erection and with whom it 
is our cordial desire to co-operate in every practical way. 
It is placed thus early in the programme both as a matter 
of propriety and as a deference to the public spirited men 
who have generously assumed the responsibility of erect- 
ing this memorial. 

The co-operation of the ethnological department of the 
American Museum of Natural History is invited in the re- 
creation of a typical Indian village on the site of the ab- 
original shell heaps at the Indian rock habitation at Inwood 
Hill. It is thought that this can be done with Indians 
from the New York State reservations and will prove of 
high educational value. 

This day will close with an official banquet in New York 
City in the evening. 

HISTORICAL DAY. 

Tuesday, the 21st, is essentially an educational day, de- 
signed to be participated in by the universities, colleges, 
schools, museums and learned societies throughout the 
whole State. While the commemoration of 1909 must, 
from geographical considerations, largely center around 
the Hudson River, the glory and the material benefits of 
Hudson's and Fulton's achievements are the heritage of 
the people of the entire State, and the programme for 
Historical Day afifords a practical means for a general ob- 
servance of the occasion from one end of the State to the 
other. 

The day will culminate in New York City with official 
literary meetings in the evening in each of the five 
Boroughs, at which provision will be made for orations by 
men of national reputation. 



October 23, 1907 325 

LAND PARADE DAY. 

The programme for Wednesday, the 22d, is arranged 
with a view to giving, in addition to miHtary pageantry, 
ample scope for the exhibition of the arts of peace. With 
historical allegorical floats illustrating the past history of 
the City and State, and similar exhibits illustrating the con- 
temporary genius of labor and industry, as expressed in the 
various arts and crafts of our people, we believe that New 
York can produce a pageant which for beauty and instruc- 
tiveness will excel any of the famous spectacles of the 
European carnivals. 

An evening reception to the official guests at the head- 
quarters of the Department of the East on Governor's 
Island is suggested as the closing event of the day if it 
proves agreeable to the authorities, 

DEDICATION DAY. 

Soon after the Commission Was formed, a World's Fair 
at or near New York City was suggested. After giving 
several public hearings the subject was referred to the 
Plan and Scope Committee, who, in their preliminary re- 
port (page 115 of the printed Minutes), expressed the be- 
lief that the country had been surfeited with such tem- 
porary celebrations and voiced the hope that the celebra- 
tion of 1909 would be conducted on a plan which would 
leave monumental works of lasting benefit to the people. 
During the past year the ideas thus expressed appear to 
have become the policy of the Commission, and the recent 
unequivocal expressions of approval by the leading news- 
papers of this and other States tend to confirm the wisdom 
of such a course. 

We therefore recommend that Thursday in Celebration 
Week be devoted to the dedication of parks and memorials 
along the Hudson River; and that, between now and then, 
the most earnest efforts be made to secure not only the 
great memorials like Inwood Hill Park, the Hudson 
Memorial Bridge, the Verplanck's Point Park, the cgm- 
pletion of the Palisades Drive, etc., but also that the civic 
pride of various communities along the river be invoked 
to participate in like manner according to their means. 
We also recommend that the interest of the numerous his- 
torical and patriotic societies be enlisted for the erection of 
monuments and tablets, so that the history of the Hudson 
Valley may be written in stone and bronze from the site 
of old Fort Amsterdam to the site of old Fort Orange. 



326 Minutes of Trustees 

The aquatic sports mentioned in the programme for 
Dedication Day are designed in the first instance for 
friendly competition between the crews of the naval 
vessels, but may embrace motor boat races and such other 
amusements as may seem practicable and desirable. 

A music festival in some large auditorium is proposed 
for the evening event of this day. 

HUDSON RIVER DAY. 

Friday, the 24th, is devoted to the Naval Parade and in- 
cidental ceremonies. It appears to be practicable for some 
of our naval vessels to proceed as far north as Newburgh 
Bay. We have therefore planned to have as many vessels 
of the navy, merchant marine, excursion boats, and pleas- 
ure craft as possible go from New York to Newburgh, 
taking with them the facsimiles of the " Half Moon " and 
" Clermont." In order that the inhabitants of the country 
on either side of the river may see the parade and the 
reproductions of the historic vessels, we recommend that 
the day be devoted by them to fetes champetres along the 
river-sides from New York to Newburgh. As the pro- 
cession passes up the river, salutes may be fired from 
eligible points. 

Simultaneously with the advance of the Southern Hud- 
son Division, we recommend a counter-procession from 
Albany to Newburgh, the two divisions meeting and hold- 
ing appropriate ceremonies at Newburgh. The delivery 
of the " Half Moon " and " Clermont " to the North Hud- 
son Division would form a feature of these exercises. 

ILLUMINATION DAY. 

Saturday, the two divisions of the Naval Parade will re- 
turn to their respective starting points, the people residing 
north of Newburgh holding open air fetes at convenient 
places along the river, which will enable them to see and 
salute the *' Half Moon " and " Clermont " as they pass. 

In all the cities this will be peculiarly the Children's Day, 
devoted to fetes in public and private parks and play- 
grounds. The fertility of the youthful mind as displayed 
in their May Party and Thanksgiving Day observances 
suggests that these Children's Festivals may develop into 
one of the most interesting and picturesque features of the 
celebration. 

The whole celebration will culminate in New York with 
an illumination of the fleet and public and private build- 
ings, and pyrotechnic display, and in Albany with similar 



October 23, 1907 327 

illuminations and special local exercises ; while the whole 
river will be connected by a chain of signal fires from 
mountain-tops and other eligible points, lighted at a given 
hour. Displays of fireworks at various points, notably on 
the great bridges as in the fetes of the 14th of July in 
Paris, can be seen by hundreds of thousands of people and 
will give great pleasure to the masses. For the signal fires, 
the co-operation of the inhabitants and authorities of dif- 
ferent localities is confidently expected and relied upon. 
It is believed that each one will select suitable points where 
such bonfires may be conspicuous and yet compatible with 
safety to property; and that the public spirit of the com- 
munity will inspire its members with zeal for collecting the 
materials, and firing the piles at the same hour, on receipt 
of an electric signal flashed at 9 p. m. along both shores 
of the river. 

THESE RECOMMENDATIONS NOT EXCLUSIVE. 

In making the foregoing recommendations, your Com- 
mittee does not regard them as excluding any other appro- 
priate and practicable features which may be recommended 
from time to time, for doubtless many very excellent new 
ideas will be suggested before the anniversary year arrives. 
But we believe that the plan is sufficiently definite and 
comprehensive to serve as a working basis for the begin- 
ning of practical preparations. With a view to the recep- 
tion and consideration of further recommendations from 
any source, the Trustees may deem it advisable to continue 
the Plan and Scope Committee as a standing Committee 
of the Commission. 

We recommend that the various subcommittees of the 
Plan and Scope Committee, which have so ably co-operated 
in the preparation of the foregoing programme, be dis- 
charged as subcommittees, and be reappointed as full work- 
ing committees, together with such other committees as may 
be necessary for the practical working out and execution of 
the details of the celebration. 

All of which is respectfully submitted in behalf of the 
Committee. 

Frederick W. Seward, Chairman. 
Committee : 

Frederick W. Seward, E. E. Olcott, 

James M. Beck John E. Parsons, 

Frederick D. Grant, Aaron Vanderbilt, 

George F. Kunz, Samuel B. Ward, 

Seth Low, Stewart L. Woodford. 



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330 



l^ubBOtt- Julton (Eebbratton (EommisBtott. 

(Revised to December 3, 1907.) 



Herbert Adams. 

John G. Agar. 

R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alplionse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Afgar. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Ranta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor Wiliam J. 

Baxter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Blooniingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
George V. Broiver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
.Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grovcr Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

Ian. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 
E. S. A. deLima. 
Hon. C. M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
Gforg-e G. DeW'itt. 
Hon. William IVaper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 
George Ehret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Arthur English. 
Most Rev. John M. 

Farley. 



Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyfesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Wkichester Fitch. 

Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. .S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Foivler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis. 

Henry C^ Frick. 

Frank -S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 

Gt-orge J . Gould. 

Maj.-Gcn. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

.\bner S. Haight. 

Fdw. Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. A. Hearn. 

James A. Hearn. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

//('«. Warren //ic^fy. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 

Tames P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Lloyt. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 

Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henrv Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

T. D. Huntting. 

Augtist F. Jarcaci. 

Col. William Jay. 

Morris K. Jesup. 

Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Tvetcham. 

Gi'n. Horatio C. King. 

.Albert E. Kleinert. 

Dr. George F. Kunc. 

John LaFarge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

Frederick S. Lamb. 

Homer Lee. 

Charles W. Lefler. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss. 

Dr. Henry M. l.eipsiger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

Herman Livingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seth Low. 



R. Fulton Ludlow. 

William A. IMarble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook. 

Col. John J. McCook. 

Donald McDonald. 

William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Frank D. Millet. 

Con,, facob //■. Milhr. 

Hon." Warner Miller. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogdcn Mills. 

J. Pierpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham ^lorris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Wm. C. Mnschcnheim. 

Nathan Newman. 

C. H. Xifhaus. 

I^udwig Nissen. 

Tlon. Lewis Nixon. 

Chas. R. Norman. 

W. R. O' Donovan. 

Eben E. Olcott. 

Wm. Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'Sullivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

(Irre! .\. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Howland Pell. 

Non. Geo. W. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

William Rockefeller. 

Mai.-Gen. Chas. ^. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Rvan. 

Henry W. Sacketf. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 

Chas. .\. .Schermerhorn. 

Jacob H. Schiff. 

Prest. Jacob G. Schur- 
man. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

I.<:aac N. SelifTiiian. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. l-enner. 



[Names of Trustees'in itaUcs:\ 



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Hon. Fre<Vk. IV. Seward. 

Hon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

/. Edward Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

E. V. Skinner. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Wm. L. Stone. 

Hon. Oscar S. Strajcs. 

George R. Sutherland. 



Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Lt.-Cant. Aaron Vande7-- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
Rev. Dr. Henry Van 

Dyke. 
Warner Van Norden. 
Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W. Vrooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

[Names of Trustees in italics.'] 



Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells. Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Whitney. 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. J as. Grant Wilson. 
Hon. John S. Wise. 
Charles B. WolfFrani. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 



132 

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(Revised to December 3, 1907.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

I'ice-Presidents : 

Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 

Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistant Secretary; 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Flail, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Conniiittee: 

Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 
Hon. James M. Beck, John E. Parsons, 

Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Andrew Carnegie, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Louis C. Raegener, 
Hon. Grover Cleveland, Herman Ridder, 

RearAdm.J.B.Coghlan,U.S.N., Henry W. Sackett, 
William J. Curtis, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Theodore Fitch, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, J. Edward Simmons, 

Edward Hagaman Flail, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Col. William Jay, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 
Frank D. Millet, Hon. Wm. R. VVillcox. 

T. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, [One vacancvl 

Eben E. Olcott, 

Conmritfee on Lazi': 

Francis L}nde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jav, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-o-fficio. 

Connnittec on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. "I 



333 

Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarrolI. 

General Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York 
Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, ex-oificin. 

Sub-Committee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

59 West 4Sth Street, New York. 

William J. McKay, Com. Jacob W. Miller, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, U.S.N., Hon. John H. Starin, 

Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Sub-Committee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 
Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub-Committee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Tunis G. Bergen,Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Inzvood: 
John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City. 
William J. Curtis, Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz. Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Vsrplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub-Committee on Date of Celebration: 
Hon. William McCarrolI, Chairman, 30 Ferry St., New York. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Louis C, Raegener. 

Sub-Committee on Exhibition of Motive Power: 
Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York City. 

Committee on Co-operation: 
Charles R. Lamb, Chairman, 23 Sixth Avenue, New York City. 
Com. Jacob W. Miller, Henry W. Sackett. 



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335 
Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

November 27, 1907. 

The nineteenth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
F'ulton Celel:>ration Commission was held in the head- 
quarters in the Tribune Building, New York City, 
Wednesday, November 2"], 1907, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present: President Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; 
and Hon. James K. Apgar, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. 
George V. Brower, j\lr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Henry E. 
Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Henry Hud- 
son, Gen. Horatio C. King, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. George W. Perkins, Hon. N. 
Taylor Phillips, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. 
Sackett, Gen. James Grant Wilson, and Hon. Timothy 

L. Woodruff. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Hon. Alfred J. Boulton, Mr. H. W. Cannon, Mr. 
William J. Curtis, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Mr. Morris K. 
Jesup, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Seth Low, Com. Jacob 
W. Miller, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, 
President Jacob G. Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Spencer Trask, and Dr. 
Samuel B. Ward, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of October 23, 1907, having been printed 
and sent to all the members of the Commission, were 
approved as printed. 

Treasurer's Report. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
stated that there had been no disbursements since the 
last meeting and the balance on hand remained as then 
stated. 



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Bills Approz'cd for Payment. 
The following- bills were approved for payment out of 
the State Fund, subject to examination and approval by 
the Finance Committee: 

De-Fi Manufacturing Co., i box of carbon 

paper $3 50 

Polhemus Printing- Co., i scrap book i 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., i ream blank paper.. 2 75 

J. B. Lyon Co., 800 cards, notices of meeting. . 4 13 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $18 54 

Salary for November 208 33 

226 87 

$238 25 



Auxiliary Co)iniiiftccs in Cities and Villages. 

The Secretary reported that in accordance with the 
resolution adopted October 23d, he had sent a letter to 
the Mayors of 18 cities and the Presidents of 2"/ villages, 
inviting them to appoint auxiliary committees to co- 
operate in arranging for the celebration in 1909. The 
names of those addressed were as follows : 

MAYORS OF CITIES. 

Albany Hon. Charles H. Gaus. 

Amsterdam Hon. Jacob H. Dealey. 

Auburn Hon. I'^ C. Aiken. 

Buffalo His Honor, the Mayor. 

Cohoes Hon. John Archibold. 

Hudson Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Kingston Hon. Walter P. Crane. 

Little Falls Hon. Rugene Walrath. 

Newburgh Hon. Chas. D. Robinson. 

Oswego Hon. John K. Smith. 

Poughkeepsie Hon. John K. Sague. 

Rochester Hon. James G. Cutler. 

Rome Hon. Albert R. Kessinger. 

Schenectady Hon. Jacob W. Clute. 

Syracuse Hon. Alan C. Fobes. 

Troy Hon. Elias P. Mann. 

Utica Hon. Richard W. Sherman. 

Yonkers Hon. John H. Coyne. 



November 27, 1907 337 

PRESIDENTS OF VILLAGES. 

Canajoharie President of the Village. 

Canastota Hon. F. F. Hubbard. 

Catskill Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Cold Spring Hon. Vincent Murray. 

Cornwall President of the Village. 

Coxsackie Hon. F. H. Sutherland. 

Dobbs Ferry Hon. Chas. E. Storms. 

Fishkill Hon. Howell White. 

Fonda Hon. Elmer E. Follonsbee. 

Fort Plain Hon. Thomas Temple. 

Frankfort Hon. Charles T. Pratt. 

Fultonville Hon. Robert Wemple. 

Hastings Hon. F. G. Zinsser. 

Haverstraw Hon. Charles H. Zundel. 

Herkimer Hon. William Witherstine. 

Highland Falls Hon. Christian A. IMiiller. 

Ilion Hon. Edward Whitmore. 

Mohawk Hon. Wm. M. Lamb. 

Nyack Dr. H. W^ Boyd. 

Peekskill Hon. Isaac H. Smith. 

Saratoga Springs Hon. James D. McNulty. 

Saugerties Hon. Albert Rowe. 

South Nyack Hon. Charles McElroy. 

Stony Point (town) Hon. Alex. Rose (Supervisor). 

Tarrytown Hon. John Gross. 

Upper Nyack Hon. A. C. Tucker. 

West Haverstraw Hon. Edward L. Wemple. 

Replies b.ad already been received from the ^Mayors of 
Albany, Rochester, Schenectady, Troy and Utica indicat- 
ing that they would take favorable action as soon as pos- 
sible. 

Appointment by the Mayor of iVftc York. 

A letter from the Hon. Geo. B. ^IcClellan, ^layor of 
New York, dated November 2, 1907, was read communi- 
cating the appointment of Constructor William J. Baxter, 
U. S. N., as a member of this Commission, in accordance 
with the recommendation of the Trustees at their last 
meeting. 

It was voted that the communication be received and 
placed on file, and that the name of Constructor Baxter 
be placed upon the list of members of the Commission. 



338 Minutes of Trustees 

Correspondence zuith Governor Hughes Concerning l^er- 
planck's Point Park. 

A communication dated November 22, 1907. was re- 
ceived from the Hon. Frederick W. Seward, enclosing 
copies of correspondence with Governor Hughes concern- 
ing the proposed State Park at Verplanck's Point Park 
as follows : 

Montrose, N. Y., November 4, 1907. • 
The Honorable Charles E. Hughes, 
Governor of New York, 

Albany, N. Y. 

My dear Sir: The Honorable Stewart L. Woodford 
tells me that you desire some further information in re- 
gard to the project of a State Park at Ver Planck's Point. 
I take pleasure in complying with his request that I 
should write you. 

The Hudson-Fulton Commission has adopted an elabo- 
rate plan for an eight days' celebration of the events it 
was designed to commemorate — a plan including land 
and naval parades and other public exercises and demon- 
strations. But as all these would have only temporary 
importance it was thought best to also devise some per- 
manent memorials that might be of lasting public benefit. 
Accordingly, the Commission has decided to recommetid 
several such memorials. They include a park within the 
city limits at Inwood Heights; a park outside of those 
limits at Ver Planck's Point; the Hudson Memorial 
Bridge across Spuyten Duyvil creek ; the Fulton Water- 
Gate in Riverside Park ; the Palisade Drive ; the Statue 
of William the Silent ; and various tablets commemorat- 
ing important events. 

The Ver Planck's Point Park is the one of these that is 
distinctively a State enterprise requiring State legisla- 
tion. The others are to be provided for by the city au- 
thorities or by private or popular subscription. 

Ver Planck's Point marks a spot where Henry Hudson 
came to anchor on his first voyage of discovery in 1609. 
It is one of the two head lands at the northern end of 
Haverstraw Bay. Stony Point lies directlv opposite. 
Between the two was the old King's Ferry of Revolution- 
ary fame — the chief line of communication between New 
England and the other colonies, and the thoroughfare of 
the American and French armies. Washington, with 



November 27, 1907 339 

masterly strategy, fortified and defended both points, 
thereby saving the ferry to the American Colonies and 
preventing the junction of the British armies under Bur- 
goyne and Sir Henry Clinton. The capture of Stony 
Point by Anthony Wayne was the chief incident in that 
heroic defense. 

A few years ago the State of New York purchased 
Stony Point and made it a State Park, thus saving it from 
irreparable devastation. If the State should now round 
out and complete that action by in like manner convert- 
ing Ver Planck's Point to public uses, the twin parks 
united by the ancient ferry would constitute a fitting and 
enduring memorial of Hudson's voyage in 1609, ^^^^ Rev- 
olutionary struggle of 1775-83, and Robert Fulton's 
achievements in steam navigation in 1807, besides fur- 
nishing a popular recreation ground of unrivaled scenic 
beauty. 

The bill submitted to the Legislature last winter 
seemed to carry its own argument. It specifically enum- 
erated the historic points to be acquired — the shore 
fronting the anchorage of Hudson ; the ruins of the old 
Revolutionary battery ; the site of Fort Fayette ; the land- 
ing place of the King's Ferry; the hill where Washing- 
ton planted his Marquee; and the camp-ground of 
the American and French armies. The bill carefully 
guarded the interest of the State by providing that the 
purchase should be made by the Commissioners of the 
Land Office having the right of condemnation and only 
on such terms as they should find just and it limited the 
amount to $125,000 " or so much thereof as may be nec- 
essary," thus preventing any unreasonable or extravagant 
expenditure. The Commission are still of the opinion 
that the coming session offers a favorable opportunity 
for the enactment of this or some similar measure. 

Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) Frederick W. Seward. 

State of New York 

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER 

Albany, November 11, 1907. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Montrose, N. Y. 

My dear Mr. Seward. Your letter of the 4th instant 
was received during my absence from Albany. I thank 



340 Minutes of Trustees 

you for your statement of the plans of the Hudson-Ful- 
ton Celebration Commission. I am much interested in 
the project and shall be glad to take the matter under 
careful consideration. 
I remain, 

Very truly yours, 
(Signed) Charles E. Hughes. 

Nominated for Appoiiitiiuvit on Conuiiission. 

Mr. Fitch, cliairman of the Committee on Nominations, 
reported the name of Hon. Edward AI. Shepard, chairman 
of the Board of Trustees of the College of the City of 
New York, for membership in the Commission, and it 
was voted that the appointment be recommended to the 
Mayor. 

Inwood Hill Park and Hudson Memorial Bridge. 

The Secretary laid before the Board the report of Chief 
Engineer Nelson P. Lewis to the Board of Estimate and 
Apportionment, dated September 26, 1907, containing the 
engineer's views upon various recommendations made by 
the City Improvement Commission. The engineer's re- 
port begins as follows : 

" Hon. George B. McClellan, Chairman of the Board of 
Estimate and Apportionment : 

Sir : At the meeting of the Board of Estimate and Ap- 
portionment held on April 5, 1907, the plans and draw- 
ings accompanying the report of the New York City 
Improvement Commission to the Mayor and the Board 
of Aldermen were ordered to be filed in the office of the 
Chief Engineer of the Board, who was instructed to re- 
port as to which of the recommendations of the Commis- 
sion it would be practicable to carry out by proceedings 
involving assessments for all or a portion of the expense, 
which could be carried out at the expense of the city at 
large, and also which of the said plans could advantageously 
be officially approved by the Board of Estimate and Appor- 
tionment at the present time." 

The report then proceeds to review the various recom- 
mendations of the City Improvement Commission, and 



November 27, 1907 341 

refers to the communications addressed to the Board of 
Estimate by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 
the Washington Heights Taxpayers' Association, and the 
Sons of the American Revolution in favor of the park at 
Inwood Hill. Concerning the proposed improvements in 
the Borough of Manhattan the engineer's conclusion is 
stated as follows : 

" The improvements which are, in my judgment, most 
important at present, are as follows : Borough of Alan- 
hattan — i, the provision of outlets for Sixth and Seventh 
avenues; 2, the extension of Madison avenue from 23rd 
street southwardly to the intersection of Fourth avenue 
at 17th street; 3, the laying out and acquisition of a park 
west of Riverside Drive and at Inwood Hill. * * * 
The third improvement suggested, namely, the laying out 
of a park west of Riverside Drive and at Inwood Hill, is 
selected for the reason that delay in taking this action 
will enormously increase the expense." 

Mr. John E. Parsons expressed satisfaction at the rec- 
ommendation of Chief Engineer Lewis; for ]\Ir. Parsons' 
attention had been called to the fact that action had re- 
cently been taken to provide for the Hudson Memorial 
Bridge and approaches, and he had felt some alarm lest 
that action would militate against the park plan. As 
between the closely connected projects for the bridge and 
the park, he felt that that of the park was of more im- 
mediate importance, and that if either had to wait, the 
bridge could wait with the less disadvantage. He had 
recently learned from an important property owner of 
that section that the plans for the extension of Riverside 
Drive included a viaduct across Dyckman street; and the 
effect of this was to augment enormously the real estate 
values of the hill. This, in turn, meant increased ex- 
pense and difficulty for our plan for the park. A short 
time ago he had spoken to the Mayor about the proposed 
park, and all he said, and all he could say in view of the 
condition of the city's finances, was that the park could 
not be considered at present. Mr. Parsons, therefore, 
did not see how we could proceed just now. 



342 Minutes of Trustees 

Deputy Comptroller Phillips said that he did not feel 
alarmed concerning- the effect on the park plans of the 
action in reference to the bridge. The bridge matter had 
been referred to the Corporation Counsel as a matter of 
form, and it was not likely that an3^thing would be done 
that would affect unfavorably the park plan. Mr. Phil- 
lips agreed very heartily with Mr. Parsons as to the 
precedent importance of the park plan. 

The Secretary also laid before the Pioard a copy of an 
illustrated article in the Engineering News for Nov. 21, 
1907, describing the new plans for the Henry Hudson 
Memorial Bridge prepared by the Department of Bridges 
and recently submitted to the Art Commission of the 
City of New York for approval. The plans provide for 
a concrete rib arch with a span of 703 feet, and ap- 
proaches. 

The documents relating to the discussion were ordered 
on file. 

The Great Hall of the College of the City of Nezv York. 

The President read a communication dated November 
8, 1907, addressed to him by President John H. Finley 
of tlie College of the City of New York, calling attention 
to the great hall in the new college buildings at St. Nich- 
olas Terrace and 139th street^ and its availability for ex- 
ercises during the celebration of 1909. President Finley 
said that the programme for 1909 as set forth in the re- 
port of the Plan and Scope Committee and in a recent 
after-dinner address by President Woodford was a very 
appealing one, and he wished to assure the Commission 
of his personal readiness to co-operate. " I hope," he 
continued, " that if you are thinking of a general service 
Monday you will consider the advisability of holding- 
such a service in our great hall, which, I am sure, would 
be put by our trustees at your disposal. It has a plat- 
form which will accommodate two or three hundred; the 
hall itself will accommodate between two and three thou- 
sand ; and it is soon to have a great organ." Writing of 
the whole group of college buildings, Dr. Finley referred 



November 27, 1907 343 

to the " splendid provision the city has made for the 
higher edncation of its youth," and added : " The crown- 
ing feature is the hall of which T spoke, designed not 
merely for our use, but for the use of the city on just 
such occasions, among others^ as your celebration pre- 
sents." 

President Woodford said that Dr. Finley's letter would 
be placed on file and his kind suggestion borne in mind. 

The Netherlands' Interest in the Celebration. 

Mr. Bergen stated that he had recently been in corre- 
spondence with His Excellency, Jonkheer R. de Marees 
van Swinderen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- 
potentiary of the Netherlands to the United States, and 
he was able to state that great interest was being taken 
in The Netherlands in the approaching celebration. 

Committee on Legislation Requested to Report. 

It was voted that the Committee on Legislation be re- 
quested to report at the next meeting such legislation as 
in its judgment it might be desirable to have introduced 
in the coming session of the Legislature. 

Palisades Park and Hook Mountain. 

Mr. Perkins, president of the Palisades Interstate Park 
Commission, was asked what progress that Commission 
had made with its plans. He replied that with respect 
to their original task of saving the Palisades from de- 
struction, th.eir work was practically completed. They 
had secured all the land along the Palisades proper on 
which blasting had been going on and were still within 
the limits of their appropriation. All property thus far 
had been obtained by amicable negotiation. Last month 
they had begun their first condemnation proceedings, to 
acquire a few parcels where the owners were unknown or 
where the owners sought what seemed to be excessive 
compensation. Their acquisitions had consisted of the 
face of the cliffs and riparian rights. No improvements 
had been undertaken yet. 



344 Minutes of Trustees 

With reference to the saving of the Hook Mountain, 
he said that the Legislature of 1906 had extended their 
jurisdiction so as to permit them to acquire mountain 
lands between Piermont and Stony Point, but the Hook 
Mountain proposition appeared impossible to handle. 
The owners had developed a valuable trap-rock property 
there, and the State was not likely to pay any such price 
as the quarry owners demanded. 

Old Home Week Along the Hudson in 1909. 

The Hon. Henry Hudson, Mayor of the city of Hud- 
son, \^'as invited to tell what preparation his city was 
making for the celebration in 1909. He replied that on 
account of its age, its location and its name, his city had 
been interested in the celebration from the very begin- 
ning. It was the third chartered city in the State, and 
although the smallest in number of inhabitants, it was as 
enthusiastic as some of its larger neighbors. The local 
chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution 
was planning to dedicate a tablet or a park, and was to 
have a meeting the following week to confer with him. 
He also said that a committee of which he was Secretary 
had invited the mayors and presidents of a number of 
cities and villages to confer for united action, and the 
official representatives of several communities expected 
to meet with T^.Iayor Gaus of Albany on Saturday, No- 
vember 30th, to consider the su])ject. This might lead 
to the formation of an up-river association to help in the 
celebration. 

Mayor Hudson suggested that the eight-day celebra- 
tion as already outlined might desirably be followed by 
another week for the particular benefit of the river com- 
munities. During the first week of the celebration, many 
of the up-state residents would want to visit New York. 
The following week might be devoted to " old home 
days " on which old residents and others could visit the 
towns up the river. It might be arranged to have a cele- 
bration in Poughkeepsie on Monday, for instance, in 
Kingston Tuesday, in Catskill Wednesday, in Hudson 



November 27, 1907 345 

Thursday, in Albany Friday, and Troy Saturday. He 
asked the Board if there would be any objection to such 
a plan. 

The President assured Mayor Hudson that whatever 
the people up the river or along the Mohawk might do to 
augment interest in the celebration would be approved by 
this Commission. 

Assistant Secretary in Exempt Class of the Civil Service. 

The Secretary laid before the Board letters dated Nov. 
18 and Nov. 27, 1907, from the State Civil Service Com- 
mission, communicating the following resolution adopted 
by that Commission November 15 and approved by Gov- 
ernor Hughes November 26: 

" Whereas, the Attorney-General has furnished this 
Commission with his writen opinion that the employees 
of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission are in the 
State service, and that their accounts for salary or com- 
pensation are subject to certification of the State Civil 
Service Commission under section 19 of the Civil Service 
Law, 

" Therefore be it 

'■ Resolved, That, subject to the approval of the Gov- 
ernor, the classification of positions in the exempt class 
in the State service be and hereby is amended by adding 
thereto the following : ' Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : The Assistant Secretary,' for the reason that com- 
petitive or non-competitive examination is hereby found to 
be impracticable for filling said position." 

Ordered on file. 

Collier's Painting of Henry Hudson. 

Gen. Wilson stated that in accordance with a request, 
he had brought with him a photograph of John Collier's 
painting of " The Last Voyage of Flenry Hudson " in the 
Tate Galler}^ London, referred to at the last meeting. 
(See page 317 of the Minutes.) 

The photograph was examined with great interest by 
the Trustees. 

The President thanked Gen. AA^ilson for bringing the 
photograph. He added that Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke 



346 Minutes of Trustees 

was of the opinion that His Majesty King Edward VII 
would, without doubt, send the original for exhibition at 
the time of the celebration. 

Adjourned Until ]Vcdncsday, December i8, 1907. 

The Secretary called attention to the fact that the next 
regular meeting day, the fourth Wednesday of the month, 
would fall on Christmas day ; and that according to the 
by-laws, the meeting v.as required to be on the following 
day. 

He tlierefore moved that when this meeting should 
adjourn, it adjourn to meet on Wednesday, December 
i8th, at 3 p. M., with the understanding that no business 
would be transacted on the 26th. Carried. 

The meeting tlien adjourned until Wednesday, De- 
cember 1 8th, at 3 p. M. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of December 9, i8 and 26, 1907 



348 



(Revised to December 31, 1907.) 



President: 
Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents ; 

Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President. 

Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer: 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 
Secretary: Assistant Secretary: 

Henry W. Sackett, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Executive Connnittee: 
Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 

John E. Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott. 

Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Andrew Carnegie, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Louis C. Raegener, 
Hon. Grover Cleveland, Herman Ridder, 

RearAdm.J.B.Coghlan.U.S.N., Henry W. Sackett. 
William J. Curtis, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Theodore Fitch, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, J. Edward Simmons, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Col. William Jay, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Morris k. Jesup, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

John La Farge, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 
Frank D. Millet, Hon. Wm. R. VVillcox. 

T. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, [One vacancy] 

Committee on Laiv: 

Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jav, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-oMcio. 



349 

Committee on Nominations: 
Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 

William J. Curtis, J. Edward Simmons, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-ofHcio. 

Committee on Finance: 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

Committee on IVays and Means 
Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William street. New York City. 
John E. Parsons, J. Edward Simmons, 

Hon. George W. Perkins, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, Spencer Trask. 

The President, ex-oMcio. 

General Committee on Plan and Scope: 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, New York. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Eben E. Olcott, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, John E. Parsons, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

The President, ex-oMcio. 

Sub-Committee on Naval Parade: 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 

59 West 45th Street, New York. 

Constructor Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N. Com. Jacob W. Miller, 

William J. McKay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, U.S. N., Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Suh-Comniittee on Land Parade and Literary Exercises: 
Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 

Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Sub-Committee on Dedication of Memorials: 
Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Inzvood: 
John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street, New York City. 
William J. Curtis, Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. George "VV- Perkins, 

Henry W. Sackett. 

Sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point: 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub-Committee on Date of Celebration: 
Hon. William McCarroll, Chairman, 30 Ferry St., New York. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Louis C. Raegener. 



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Sub-Committee on Exhibition of Motive Power: 
Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street, New York City. 

Committee on Co-operation: 
Charles R. Lamb, Chairman, 23 Sixth Avenue, New York City. 
Com. Jacab W. Miller, Henry W. Sackett. 



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Herbert Adams. 

lohn G. Agar. 

R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alplionse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Chas. H. Armatage. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor William J. 

Baxter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Bcrri. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulfon. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
George V. Broivcr. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
.S"!> Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

lan. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 



Paul D. Cravath. 

Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 

E. D. Cummings. 

William J. Curtis. 

Robt. Fulton Cutting. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montayne. 

E. S. A. deLima. 

Hon. C. M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

Gtorge G. DeWitt. 

Hon. William l>raper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. 
Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassttt. 

Barr Ferree. 

Stuyvesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Wi-nchester Fitch. 

James J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Chas. .9. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edw. Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. A. Hearn. 

James A. Hearn. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

Hon. War r en Hi^lev. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

[Names of Trustees in ita/Tcs:] 



Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 

James P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Homan. 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Hoyt. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 

Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D. Huntting. 

August F. Jaccaci. 

Col. William Jay. 

Morris K. Jesup. 

Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Ketcham. 

Gen. Horatio C. King. 

Albert E. Kleinert. 

Dr. George F. Kuns. 

John LaFarge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

Frederick S. Lamb. 

Homer Lee. 

Charles W. Lefler. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss. 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

Herman Livingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seth Low. 

R. Fulton Ludlow. 

Hon. Arthur McArthur. 

William A. Marble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook. 

Col. John J. McCook. 

Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Frank D. Millet. 

Com. Jacob W. Miller. 



;5i 



Hon. Warner Miller. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogdcn Mills. 

J. Picrpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham Morris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Win. C. Muschenheim. 

Nathan Newman. 

C. H. Niehaus. 

Ludwig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Chas. R. Norman. 

W. R. O'Donovan. 

Ebcn E. Olcott. 

Wm. Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'Sullivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel A. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Howland Pell. 

Hon. Geo. IV. J'erki'is. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

William Rockefeller. 



Maj.-Gen. Chas. P. Roe. 
Carl J. Roehr. 
Louis T. Romaine. 
Thomas F. Ryan. 
Henry W. Sackctt. 
Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 
George Henry Sargent. 
Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 
Chas. A. .Schermerhorn. 
Jacob H. SchiiT. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schxir- 

man. 
Gustav H. Schwab. 
Hon. Townsend Scudder. 
Isaac A''. Seligman. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. renner. 
Hon. FreWk. If. Seward. 
Hon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 
Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
/. Edzvard Simimns. 
John W. Simpson. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. John C. Smock. 
William Sohmer. 
Nelson S. Spencer. 
James Speyer. 
Hon. John H. Starin. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis .Stern. 
Francis Lynde Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Wm. L. Stone. 
Hon. Oscar ,9. Straus. 
George R. .Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
[Names of Trustees in italics. 



Stevenson Taylor. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Spencer Trask. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lt.-Coiit. Aaroji Vander- 
bilt. 

Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke. 

Warner Van Norden. 

Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

Edward Wells, Jr. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Plenry W. Wetmore. 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

J. Du Pratt White. 

Fred C. Whitney. 

Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

Stewart L. Woodford. 

Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 

W. E. Woolley. 

James A. Wright. 



353 
Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

December 9, 1907. 

The fourth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was held, pursuant 
to call of the Chairman at the Hotel Manhattan, Monday 
evening, December 9, 1907. 

Roll Call. 

Present : Chairman Stewart L. Woodford, presiding ; 
and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Edward 

Hagaman Hall, Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Commandant 
Jacob W. Miller, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. 
Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, and Mr. 
Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. William J. Curtis, 
Col. Wm. Jay, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Hon. Seth Low, Mr. 
Frank D. Millett, Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Louis C. 
Raegener, President Jacob Gould Schurman, Mr. Spencer 
Trask, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Lt. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
and Commissioner William R. Willcox, and they were ex- 
cused. 

Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of the meeting of June 27, T906, having 
been printed and sent to all the members were approved as 
printed. 

Mr. John E. Parsons Elected Vice Chairman. 

In accordance with Article IV of the By-Laws, relating 
to the Executive Committee, ]\Ir. Fitch nominated Mr. 
John E. Parsons for Vice Chairman. The nomination was 
seconded. 



354 Minutes of Executive Committee 

There being no other nominations, Mr. Fitch moved that 
the Secretary be instructed to cast a single ballot in behalf 
of the meeting for Mr. Parsons. The motion was seconded, 
and, there being no objection, was put and carried unani- 
mously. The secretary cast the ballot as directed and Mr. 
Parsons was declared elected. 

Ahz'al Participafioii hivitcd. 

The Chairman stated that the plans for the proposed 
celebration in 1909 had been so far matured and approved 
that it was now incumbent upon the Executive Committee 
to initiate the active work of carr_ving them out. Some 
things had to be done, and done promptly. Time was 
passing rapidly ; and soon, when asked when the celebration 
would take place, the reply would be " next year." He 
therefore invited the attention of the Committee to the 
proposed programme and their action upon some of its 
most pressing requirements. 

After a general discussion of the subject, Mr. Stetson 
offered the following resolution : 

" Resolved, That the President and Secretary of this 
Commission be and hereby are authorized and requested 
to address a communication to the President of the United 
States asking him to invite the foreign governments to take 
part in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration by participating in 
the naval rendezvous at that time." 

The resolution was adopted. 

Commandant Miller moved that the President and Secre- 
tary of the Commission be authorized and requested also to 
address a letter to the President of the United States in- 
viting the participation of the United States Navy in the 
celebration. Carried. 

Wa\s and Means Committee Appointed. 

Mr. Parsons moved that the Chairman appoint a Com- 
mittee on Ways and Means to consider and report from 
time to time upon the subject of methods and resources 
for meeting the financial requirements of the celebration. 
Carried. 



December 9, 1907 355 

The Chairman invited Vice Chairman Parsons to the 
chair while he considered the personnel of the new com- 
mittee. Later, upon resuming the chair, he announced the 
following appointments : 

Ways and Means Committee: iMr. Herman Ridder, 
Chairman; Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr George W. Perkins, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, Mr. 
Francis Lynde Stetson, and Mr. Spencer Trask. 

Other Committees Authorised. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the President of the Commission 
be requested to appoint a small Committee on Invitations 
and a large Committee on Reception. Carried. 

Mr. Parsons moved that the President be requested to 
appoint the committees necessary to carry out the other 
features of the programme and that the various subjects 
be referred to them. Carried. 

Mr. Stevenson Taylor Nominated to the Commission. 

Commandant Miller proposed Mr. Stevenson Taylor, 
President of Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders, 
for appointment to this commission, and moved that the 
name be recommended to the Nominating Committee for 
report to the Trustees. Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



356 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

December i8, 1907. 

The twentieth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held in the headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wednesday, De- 
cember 18, 1907, at 3 p. M. 

Roll Call. 

Present: President Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; and 
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U.S.N., Mr. Theodore 
Fitch, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Samuel Verplanck 
Hoffman, Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Seth Low, Mr. William J. 
McKay, j\Ir. John E. Parsons, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Hon. 
Cornelius A. Pugsley, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Francis 
Lynde Stetson, and Gen. James Grant Wilson. Constructor 
William J. Baxter, U.S.N., a member of the Commission, 
was also present by invitation. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. George V. 
Brower, Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. James A. Hearn, Dr. 
Henry M. Leipziger, Hon. William McCarroll, Mr. Ludwig 
Nissen, Mr. Herman Ridder, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, 
President Jacob Gould Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Dr. 
Samuel B. Ward, Hon. William R. Willcox, Mr. Charles R. 
Wilson, and Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of the meeting of November 27, 1907, having 
been printed and sent to all the members, were approved 

as printed. 

Treasurer's Report. 

The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, was 
read, stating that there had been no disbursements made 



December i8, 1907 357 

since the last meeting and that the balance of the State 
Fund remained as last reported. In response to the resolu- 
tion of October 23d, (page 313-314) the Treasurer had 
received one dollar contributions toward the subscription 
fund from 79 Trustees, making the amount in the sub- 
scription fund $79. The report was received and ordered 
on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Finance Committee: 

L. R. Hamersly & Co., i copy Men of 

America $5 00 

T. G. Sellew, repairing chair i 00 

J. B. Lyon Co., 100 copies extract 

from minutes i' 13 

E. H. Hall, Disbursements $20 39 

Salary for December. . . 208 33 

228 72 



$235 85 



Appointment by the Mayor of N'ezu York. 

The Secretary read a communication dated December 2, 
1907, from the Hon. George B. McClellan, Mayor of the 
City of New York, appointing Mr. Edward M. Shepard 
a member of this Commission as recommended by the 
Trustees at their last meeting. 

It was voted that the communication be received and 
placed on file, and that the name of Mr. Shepard be placed 
upon the list of members of the Commission. 

Commnnieation from the Mayor of Nezvburgh. 

The Secretary read a communication dated December 4, 
1907, from the Hon. Charles D. Robinson, Mayor of New- 
burgh, stating that the Business Men's Association of 
Newburgh had appointed a committee of which Mr. Fred- 
erick W. Wilson was chairman, to arrange the celebration 
ceremonies at Newburgh, and that the committee would 



258 Minutes of Trustees 

render such assistance as this Commission might desire. 
Received and ordered on file. 

Cojiununication from the Mayor of Hudson. 

The Secretary read a communication dated December 4, 
1907, from the Hon. Henry Hudson, Mayor of the City of 
Hudson, proposing the names of Hon. Charles H. Gaus, 
Mayor of Albany; Hon. Elias P. Mann, Mayor of Troy; 
Mr. Charles H. Armatage of Albany, Hon. Arthur Mc- 
Arthur of Troy, Mr. Frederick J. Collier of Hudson, Mr. 
William Homan of New York and Hon. Townsend Scud- 
der of New York as members of this Commission. Re- 
ceived and referred to the Committee on Nominations. 

Air Sliips Suggested for the Celebration. 

The Secretary read a communication dated December 9, 
1907, from the Hon. William Berri, in which he says : 

" In all probability, the navigation of the air will before 
our celebration be so perfected and recognized by various 
governments that an official invitation to them to send rep- 
resentative navigable air ships for patrol or observation 
purposes between New York and Albany would probably 
be met with acceptance and add to the interest of the occa- 
sion. Air ships are becoming very important. They have 
ceased to be a plaything. Every strong government is 
building them for business purposes. They have earned 
their position on merit and are constantly being brought to 
greater perfection. As it is necessary to have uncommon 
features to properly signalize the commemoration, why is 
it not proper at this time to show to the world the progress 
in transportation as exemplified upon the water by steam- 
boats, on the land on either side of the Hudson by the 
railroads and in the air by the newest air ships ? " 

The communication was referred to the Committee on 
Plan and Scope. 

Ahnii>iated for Appointment on Commission. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations, 
presented a report recommending the appointment of the 
followinor named gentlemen as members of this Commission: 



December i8, 1907 359 

To be appointed by the Governor : Hon. Arthur Mac- 
Arthur of Troy, County Treasurer and proprietor of the 
Troy Budget; Mr. Charles H. Armatage of Albany, Super- 
intendent of the traction department of the Albany and 
Northern Electric railroads; and Mr. Fredk. J. Collier of 
Hudson, attorney-at-law and active in patriotic affairs. 

To be appointed by the Mayor of New York: Mr. 
Stevenson Taylor of No. 123 West 85th street, New York, 
President of Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders ; 
Hon. Townsend Scudder, of No. 10 Wall street, New York, 
attorney-at-law and ex-Congressman ; and Mr. William 
Homan, of No. i West 97th street. New York, an active 
scholar in historical matters. 

The Chairman stated that the names of Mayor Gaus of 
Albany and Mayor Mann of Troy, who had been proposed 
by Mayor Hudson, were not included in the report, as pro- 
vision for their appointment would be made in the proposed 
amendment to the Commission's charter. (See page 361 
following) . 

The report was received and the recommendations 
adopted. 

Report of Executive Coiniuittee. 

The President of the Commission, as Chairman of the 
Executive Committee, presented his report in the form of 
the minutes of the meeting held on December 9, 1907. (See 
pages 353-355, ante. The report was received and ordered 
on file. 

The President stated that he was carefully considering 
the composition of the committees which the Executive 
Committee had requested him to appoint, and he hoped to 
have them completed so that he could announce them at 
or before the meeting on January 22d. 

Report of IV ays and Means Comuiittee. 

In the absence of Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman of the 
Ways and Means Committee, the Secretary, by his request, 
presented his report in the form of the minutes of a meet- 
ing held December 13, 1907. At that meeting, Mr. John 
E. Parsons had presented a tenative estimate of the finan- 



360 Minutes of Trustees 

cial needs of the celebration, which, after a general dis- 
cussion, had been adopted as follows : 

RELIGIOUS SERVICE DAYS, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. 

No expense to the Commission. 

RECEPTION DAY, MONDAY. 

Naval rendezvous $10,000 00 

Half Moon and Clermont construction 50,000 00 

Entertainment of official guests 50,000 00 

Indian Village at Inwood 10,000 00 

Official banquet 10,000 00 

HISTORICAL DAY, TUESDAY. 

Showing guests about town 5,000 00 

Literary exercises in evening 5.000 00 

LAND PARADE DAY, WEDNESDAY. 

Land parade 15,000 00 

DEDICATION DAY, THURSDAY. 

Dedication of parks and memorials 10,000 00 

Tablets in New York, Albany and other 

cities 10.000 00 

Reception to visiting guests at West Point. . 5,000 00 

Music festival in evening 5.000 00 

HUDSON RIVER DAY, FRIDAY. 

Naval parade and various items relating 

thereto on Friday and Saturday 50,000 00 

ILLUMINATION DAY, SATURDAY. 

Illuminations and pyrotechnics 10,000 00 

Sisrnal fires 10,000 00 



$255,000 00 



The Ways and Means Committee therefore recommended 
that the State be asked for the sum of $300,000 for the 
general expenses of the celebration. 



December i8, 1907 361 

Dr. Low moved that the report be received and that the 
Commission approve of the committee's recommendation. 

Carried. 

Report of Committee on Law. 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman of the Committee 
on Law, presented the fohowing report : 

December 17, 1907. 
To the Hudson-FuUon Celebration Commission : 
Your Committee on Law respectfully recommends : 

1. That there be presented to the Legislature of 1908, (a) 
A statement of the affairs of the Commission, and a report 
of recommendations, as contemplated and authorized by 
Section 6 of the Act, Chapter 325 of the Laws of 1906, 
establishing this Commission, (b) A bill increasing by 
$300,000 the State appropriation for the objects of 
this Commission, and increasing the number of members 
of the Commission by adding thereto, ex-officio the mayors 
of all the cities of the State, who shall be members and 
Trustees of the Commission, and the presidents of villages 
upon the Hudson River, who shall be members of the 
Commission. 

2. That the member of Assembly from the Westchester 
District including Verplanck's Point be requested to intro- 
duce, and in all proper ways to press for passage, the bill 
for the acquisition of land on Verplanck's Point as a Hud- 
son-Fulton Memorial Park, which was introduced in the 
session of 1907. 

3. That the Governor of the State of New York be re- 
quested to communicate with the Governor of the State 
of New Jersey and the Governor of Vermont, asking those 
states also to appoint Commissions to act jointly or other- 
wise as hereafter may be determined for purposes similar 
to those intended to be accomplished by the Act establishing 
this Commission. 

Respectfully submitted for the Committee on Law. 

Fr.\ncis Lynde Stetson, 

Chairman. 

The bill proposed by the Committee reads as follows : 

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to establish the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, and to pre- 
scribe the powers and duties thereof, and making an 
appropriation therefor," which became a law April 27, 
1906, being the act chapter 325 of the Laws of 1906. 



362 Minutes of Trustees 

TJic People of the State of Nczv York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follozvs: 

Section i. Section nine of the act entitled "An act to 
establish the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission and 
to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and making an 
appropriation therefor," being chapter 325 of the Laws of 
1906, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

§ 9. The sum of [twenty-five thousand dollars]* three 
hundred thousand dollars {in addition to the unexpended 
balance of tzvcnty-tive thousand dollars heretofore appro- 
priated, -cvhich is hereby re-appropriated), or so much 
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of 
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for the purposes of this act. Such money shall be paid by 
the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, issued upon 
a requisition signed by the president and the secretary of 
the Commission, accompanied by an estimate of the ex- 
penses, for the payment of which money so drawn is to be 
applied. No indebtedness or obligation shall be incurred 
under this act in excess of the appropriations herein or 
hereinafter made, and such sums as may be provided for 
said Commission by the City of New York for the pur- 
poses of this Act. The Commission shall as requested by 
the Governor from time to time render to him reports of 
its proceedings. 

§ 2. The members and trustees of said Commission hereby 
are increased in number by adding to and including by 
virtue of their office the persons, severally and respectively, 
who from time to time and for the time being shall hold 
municipal office as follows in the following cities of the 
State and villages upon the Hudson River, to-wit : The 
ma3'ors of the cities of Albany, Amsterdam. Auburn, Bing- 
hamton, Buffalo, Cohoes, Corning, Cortland, Dunkirk, El- 
mira, Fulton, Geneva, Gloversville, Hornellsville, Hudson, 
Ithaca, Jamestown, Johnstown, Kingston, Little Falls, Lock- 
port, Middletown, Alount Vernon, Newburgh, New Rochelle, 
New York, Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Ogdens- 
burg. Olean, Oneida, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, 
Rensselaer, Rochester, Rome, Schenectady, Syracuse, Tona- 
wanda, Troy, Utica, Watertown, Watervliet, and Yonkers, 
all of whom shall be members and Trustees of the Com- 
mission ; and also the presidents of the villages of Athens, 
Castleton, Catskill, Cold Spring, Corinth, Cornwall, Cox- 
sackie, Croton-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Fishkill, Fishkill 
Landing, Fort Edward, Glens Falls, Green Island, Hastings- 



* Words in brackets to be omitted. Substitute words italicized. 



I 



December i8, 1907 363 

on-Hudson, Haverstraw, Irvington, Matteawan, Mechanic- 
ville. North Tarrytown, Xyack, Ossining, Peekskill, Pier- 
mont, Reel Hook, Rhinebeck, Sandy Hill, Saugerties, 
Schuylerville, South Glens Falls, South Nyack, Stillwater, 
Tarrytown, Tivoli, Upper Nyack, Victory Mills, Wappingers 
Falls, Waterford, and West Haverstraw, who shall be 
members of the Commission. 

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 

Mr. Stetson said that this report covered three essential 
points : 

In the first place, it provided for the re-appropriation of 
the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 
made by chapter 325 of the Laws of 1905, which would 
otherwise revert to the State treasury at the end of two 
years from the date of the act; and for an appropriation 
for carrying out the various plans recommended by the 
Committee on Plan and Scope. Under the wise leadership 
of Mr. Parsons, the estimates called for at least $255,000 
without provision for unforseen contingencies, and it had 
been decided to recommend the sum of $300,000. 

Secondly, it was thought that it would be un- 
fortunate to have the cost of the proposed per- 
manent park at Verplanck's Point charged against 
the request for an appropriation for the expenses 
of celebration week. The Commission required so 
much for the celebration that if the cost of Verplanck's 
Point Park were added to it, the Legislature might think 
that the Commission was asking too much. It had there- 
fore been decided, after conference with Hon. James K, 
Apgar of Peekskill, to recommend that Mr. Apgar's suc- 
cessor as Assemblyman, the Hon. Isaac H. Smith of Peeks- 
kill, reintroduce and push the Verplanck's Point bill at the 
next session as a Westchester County measure, but with 
the endorsement of this Commission. 

Thirdly, in order to avoid the danger that the com- 
memoration in 1909 might be assumed by the Legislature 
to be a New York City affair, with corresponding financial 
responsibility, and in order to promote the real desire of 
the Commission to give it a state-wide interest, it had been 



364 Minutes of Trustees 

decided to recommend the enlargement of the Commission 
by the addition, ex officio of the mayors of all the cities of 
the State as members and trustees of the Commission and 
the presidents of all incorporated villages on the Hudson 
River as members of the Commission. 

It was voted that the report be received and the recom- 
mendations therein be adopted ; and that the bill be referred 
back to the committee with power to secure its introduction 
in the Legislature. 

Separation of Military and Civic Parades Recommended. 

Gen. Wilson, from the sub-committee on land parade 
and literary exercises, reported that it was the opinion of 
his committee that the military and civic features of the 
lafid parade should be separated and if necessary occupy 
two separate days. He estimated that the United States 
Army and Marine Corps, the National Guard and Naval 
Militia, would muster fully 25,000 men on that occasion. 
It would be the largest military parade of its kind in the 
country and would require three hours to pass a given point. 
This, he thought, was as long as the President of the 
United States could reasonably be asked to review a parade. 
The military and industrial parades were of such diverse 
characters that it would seem to be advisable to have them 
at dififerent times. 

Concerning the official literary exercises in the even- 
ing, he was of the opinion that the allowance of 
$5,000 for exercises in the five boroughs would be 
inadequate. He recalled that in 1898, preparations were 
begun for a great celebration of municipal consolidation, 
but were interrupted by the outbreak of the war with Spain. 
At that time he was chairman of the Committee on His- 
torical Entertainment and he had prepared an estimate of 
the cost of exercises in the Metropolitan Opera House and 
the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This estimate, prepared 
March 18, 1898, he submitted as follows: 



December i8, 1907 365 

Metropolitan Opera House $800 00 

Brooklyn Academy of Music 600 00 

Transportation for guests 1,000 00 

Carriages for both meetings 100 00 

Hotel charges for guests 500 (X) 



$3,000 00 



It was designed then to have the President and all ex- 
Presidents of the United States present on the same plat- 
form, and it was hoped that the same plan might be carried 
out in 1909. 

He said that in 1898 the Committee ordered made, as 
souvenirs of the proposed celebration, 50,000 buttons, of 
which he handed samples to the Secretary. 

Dr. Low moved that the report of the Sub-Committee on 
Land Parade and Literary Exercises be referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means. Carried. 

Report of Committee on Naval Parade. 

Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on 
Naval Parade, reported progress. With respect to the re- 
production of the Half Moon and Clermont, he said that 
the committee had great difficulty in getting authentic de- 
signs, particularly of the Clermont. The more it hunted 
for the designs, the more it was at sea. Although there 
was no contemporaneous painting or model of the Half 
Moon, they would probably have comparatively little diffi- 
culty with that vessel ; for her rigging could be learned 
from allusions in the journal of Hudson's voyage, and the 
hull could follow the type of the period. But the Clermont, 
being the first of her kind, was not typical, and the com- 
mittee could derive little assistance from types. There were 
so many different descriptions and so many varying pic- 
torial representations that the search was beset with many 
difficulties. The committee wanted to find something 
definite and accurate to lay before the Commission before 
making its final report. 



366 Minutes of Trustees 

Naval Constructor Baxter, speaking at the invitation of 
the President, said that the rebuilding of the Clermont was 
a matter which appealed to everyone interested in American 
shipping. It possessed a double interest, for it was not 
only a matter of pleasure and sentiment, but also one of 
great technical interest to men connected with shipping. 
It would require a great deal of patient research, and ap- 
peals by letters and through the newspapers for informa- 
tion, before a confident plan or scheme could be put for- 
ward as to what the two ships were. In the few months 
following the first trip of the Clermont in August, 1807, 
the steamboat underwent considerable changes, which 
added difficulty to the search for the original appearance of 
the boat. The committee wanted to see if it could present a 
reliable reproduction of the Clermont as well as the Half 
Moon. When he considered how much study and probing 
into the lost and forgotten was required, he was doubtful 
if $50,000 would cover the expense of the two reproduc- 
tions. 

General King asked if it were intended to reproduce the 
machinery. 

Mr. Baxter replied that that was one of the questions 
under consideration. It might not be feasible or really 
desirable to reproduce actual working machinery. Part of 
the Clermont's machinery was made in England, and she 
had a copper boiler. Even if she had fac-simile machinery 
she could not keep up with the procession by her own 
power. It had been suggested that instead of going to 
the great expense of actually duplicating the Clermont in 
every detail, a full sized model of hull and engine be made 
of wood, with an imitation of the rigging, and that she be 
towed by another vessel. 

The report of the committee was received. 

Mr. Baxter Added to iVot'o/ Committee. 

Admiral Coghlan moved that Naval Constructor Baxter 
be added to the Sub-Committee on Naval Parade. Carried. 



December i8, 1907 367 

Up-Statc Httdsoii-Fulfoii Celebration Couimittce Formed. 

Mayor Hudson, of the city of Hudson, reported that 
with the encouragement received from the Board of Trus- 
tees at its last meeting (pages 344-345), he had invited a 
number of officials and private citizens representing various 
communities along the upper Hudson river to a conference, 
held at the Albany Club, in the city of Albany, on Satur- 
day, November 30, 1907, at 2 :3o p. m. Those present 
were: 

From Albany : Mayor Charles H. Gaus ; Air. James F. 
McElroy, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. 
D. M. Kinnear. 

From Castleton : President John Flynn, Mr. Nicholas 
Bridenbeck, Mr. Christian Peters, and Mr. J. Rose. 

From Catskill : Hon. Charles A. Elliott, President of the 
village. 

From Cohoes : Mr. James Wallace and Mr. Stephen V. 
Lewis. 

From Hudson : Alayor Henry Hudson, City Clerk Wm. 
Wortman, Mr. M. A. Jones and Mr. F. J. Collier. 

From Kingston : Mayor Walter P. Crane and Corpora- 
tion Counsel Philip Elting. 

From Troy : Mr. Roy B. Rhodes, the Mayor's Secretary ; 
Mr. Cornelius F. Burns, President of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, and Mr. C. F. Eddy. 

From Watervliet: Mayor D. P. Quinn, Dr. F. B. Van- 
denberg, and Air. M. J. Day. 

Regrets from many others were received. After a gen- 
eral discussion, the conference resolved itself into a per- 
manent organization under the title of the " Up-State Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission " and elected the fol- 
lowing officers : 

President, Hon. Chas. H. Gaus, of Albany. 
Secretary, Mr. Benjamin F. Hamilton, of New York. 
Assistant Secretary, Air. William Wortman, of Hudson. 

The up-state organization voted that its president appoint 
a committee to confer with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission in order to ascertain if the plans of the former 
meet with the approval of the latter. It also expressed the 
desire that after the first week's celebration as planned by 



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the Commission, the Half -Moon and Clermont be turned 
over to a committee of the Upper Hudson organization for 
the purpose of continuing the celebration the following 
week to the head of navigation. 

It was voted that Mayor Hudson's report of the pro- 
ceedings at Albany be received and placed on file. 
The meeting then adjourned. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meetino^ 

December 26, 1907. 

The twenty-first meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was duly called, according 
to the by-laws, to be held at Headquarters, in the Tribune 
Building, New York City, on Thursday, December 26, 
1907, at 3 p. M. 

It being the day after Christmas, no quorum was present, 
and the meeting was adjourned without the transaction of 
any business. 

HENRY W. SACKETT, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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m^mii^rs nf the (HommtBBwn. 



Herbert Adams. 

/oAn G. A^ar. 

R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alphonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andnis. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Chas. H. Armalagc. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

jNIrs. Anson P. Attcr- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballon. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor William J. 

Baxter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Deck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. John Higelovv. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
Herbert L. Bridgman. 
George V. Brower. 
Dr. E. Family ]'>rown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

lan. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Oimmins. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Robt. W. de Forest. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 



James de la Montayne. 

E. S. A. dcLima. 

Hon. C. M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

Georgf G. Dell 'it/. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Eames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. .'^niith Ely. 

Dr. Thos. .\. Emmet. 

.Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. 
Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

P.arr Ferree. 

Stnyvesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Wi-ncliester Fitch. 

J.uues J. Mtzgerald. 

Fredk. .S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

.\usten G. Fox. 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 

Gforge J. Gould. 

Ma'].-Gen. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henrv E. Gregory. 

Hon." Edward _M. Grout. 
\hnor S. Haight. 

Ediv. Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. A. Hearn. 

Tames A. Hearn. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

ffnn. M'nrren Ilisrli'y, 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 

Tames P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

Wi'liam Homan. 
Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

rola:ate Hoyt. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 

Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
Walter G. Hudson. 
Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D. Huntting. 
August F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay. 



Jacob Katz 
Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gt'». Horatio C. King. 
.Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kims. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Tulius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipsiger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Comdr. Chas. II. Loring. 
Tlon. P. C. Loansbury. 
Hon. Seth Low. 
K. Fulton Ludlow. 
Hon. Arthur MacArthur. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 
Gen. Anson G. ATcCook. 
Col. John J. McCook. 
Donald McDonald. 

William J. McKay. 
Lion. .St. Clair McKel- 

way. 
Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Frank D. Millet. 

Com. Jacob W. Millar. 

Hon." Warner Miller. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogden Mills. 

J. Pierpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham Morris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Wm. C. Muschenheim. 

Nathan Newman. 

C. H. .Vichaus. 

Ludwig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Chas. R. Norman. 

Tlon. Morgan 1. O'Brien. 

W. R. O'Donovan. 

Eben E. Olcoft. 

Wm. Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'Sullivan. 

Hon. .Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel A. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Howland Pell. 

Hon. Gro. jr. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 



[Names of Trustees in iialic.'::] 



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George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley, 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. F, Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W. Sacketf. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 

Chas. A. .Schermerhorn. 

Jacob H. Schiff. 

Prcst. Jacob G. Schur- 
man. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

Hon. Townsend ScudJer. 

Isaac .V. Se/is^iiian. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. renner. 

Hon. Fred''k. 11^. Seuturd. 

Hon. Wra. ' F. Sheehan. 



Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

/. Edward Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

E. V. Skinner. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

William .Sohmer. 

Nelson S. .Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis .Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Wm. L; Stone. 

Hon. Oscar ,?. Straus. 

George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Stevenson Taylor. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Lt.-Coin. Aaron I'ander- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

[Names of Trustees in italics^ 



Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke. 

Warner V'an Norden. 

Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 

J. Leonard V'arick. 

Hon. E. R. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

Edward Wells, Jr. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edi)ntnd Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

J. Du Pratt White. 

Fred C. Whitney. 

Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Charles R. Wolffram. 

Stewart L. Woodford. 

Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 

W. E. Woolley. 

James A. Wright. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

January 22, 1908. 

The twenty-second meeting of the Trustees of the Flud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held at head- 
quarters in the Tribune Building, New York City, Wed- 
nesday, January 22, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call. 

Present: President Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; and 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. William 
Berri, Hon. A. J. Boulton, Mr. George V. Brower, Hon. J. 
Rider Cady, Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, Major General Frederick D. Grant, U. 
S. A., Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 
Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Gen. Horatio 
C. King, Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Dr. Henry M. Leip- 
ziger, Hon. William McCarroll, Mr. William J. McKay, 
Commander Jacob W. Miller, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. 
George W. Perkins, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Issaac N. 
Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Francis Lynde 
Stetson, Col. John W. Vrooman, Mr. Edmund Wetmore, 
and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

There were also present by invitaiton Naval Constructor 
William J. Baxter, U. S. N., and Mr. Frederick J. Collier, 
members of the Commission ; and the Hon. Charles H. 
Gaus, Mayor of Albany, Mr. Cornelius F. Burns, Presi- 
dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Troy, and Mr. Wil- 
liam Wortman, City Clerk of Hudson, members of tlie 
Up-State Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee. 

President Woodfrod invited Mayor Gaus, president of the 
Up-State Committee, to a chair by his side. 



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Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Curtis, Hon. Seth Low, Rear Admiral George W. Melville, 
U. S. N.. Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. Bayard' L. Peck, Hon. 
N. T. Phillips, Mr. Herman Ridder, President Jacob G. 
Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Hon. Andrew D. White, Mr. Charles R. Wilson and Hon. 
Timothy L. Woodruff, and they were excused. 

Death of Mr. Morris K. Jesup. 

Before proceeding" with the business of the meeting, the 
President recognized Mr. John E. Parsons to announce the 
death of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, a Vice President of this 
Commission. 

Mr. Parsons said that ^Iv. Jesup had ended his long and 
useful career at his residence in New York City at a quarter 
after two o'clock that morning; and that in this event, not 
only had the Commission lost a valuable member, but also 
the City had lost one of its foremost citizens. Mr. Par- 
sons said that his relations with Mr. Jesup as a friend went 
back to the very beginning. They were boys together, and 
their intimate an.l life-long friendship was a privilege which 
the speaker had appreciated most highly. That this relation 
had now come to an end brought to him a sorrow so sincere 
and overpowering that he could not speak at length. He 
therefore moved that a committee be appointed to prepare a 
minute wdiich would suitably express the feelings of the 
Commission. 

The President added a Ijrief word of tribute to Mr. 
Jesup's meniory, saying that at the time of his death he was 
the first citizen of New York. 

Mr. Parsons' motion was carried, and the President ap- 
pointed Mr. Parsons. Plon. Seth Low and Mr. J. Edward 
Simmons as the committee to prepare the minute. 

Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved as printed. 



January 22, 1908 377 

Treasurer's Report, January 22, 1908. 

The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, was 
read as follows : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion, 
I have the honor to report the state of the treasury Jan- 
uary 22, 1908, as follows : 

DEBIT. 

Balance on hand as per statement of October 

23, 1907 ■ $8,462 82 

Interest on deposits, December 31, 1907 189 49 

Total $8,652 31 

CREDIT. 

Paid on approved vouchers: 

42. Edwin J. Kerr, stationery $1 50 

43. Miss J. A. Cooks, mimeographing i 55 

44. Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings 3 ^^9 

45. John Polhemus Printing Co., printing and 

stationery 9 14 

46. J. B. Lyon Co.. printing 27 62 

47. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 14 62 

48. E. H. Hall, disbursements $4867 

Salary, July, August, Septem- 
ber, October 833 33 

882 00 

49. De-Fi Manufacturing Co., stationery 3 50 

50. John Polhemus Printing Co., stationery... 3 75 

51. J. B. Lyon Co.. printing 413 

52. E. H. Hall, disbursements $18 54 

Salary for November 208 33 

■ 226 87 

Total credit ' $1,178 37 

Total debit 8,652 31 

Balance on hand Jan. 22, 1908 $7473 94 



In addition to the foregoing balance in our depository in 
New York, we have remaining in the State Treasury 
$12,500.00, being one-half of the appropriation made for 



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the purposes of the Commission by chapter 325 of the Laws 
of 1906, for which we have as yet made no requisition. It 
will be necessary to have this sum reappropriated by the 
Legislature to be available after April 27, 1908, and the 
Committee on Law has the matter in charge. 

In response to the resolution of October 23, 1907, sub- 
scriptions of one dollar each have been received from 
eighty-one Trustees. Of this amount, $71.82 has been 
paid into the State Fund to reimburse it for printing ac- 
counts disallowed by the Comptroller, as stated in the 
minutes of October 23, leaving a balance of $9.18 on hand. 
There remains due to the Polhemus Printing Co. $25.34 
to be paid out of this fund as soon as sufficient subscriptions 
are received. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee : 

Henry Romeike, press clippings, Oct.-Nov.-Dec. . $1 53 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 4 35 

J. B. Lyon Co., minutes of Oct. 23 23 83 

J. B. Lyon Co., minutes of Nov. 27 21 50 

]. B. Lyon Co., 50 copies legislative act i 38 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $12 36 

Salary for January 208 33 

220 69 

$273 28 



Governor Hughes' Message. 

In the absence of Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman of the 
Ways and Means Committee, the President read a letter 
from him stating that he had called on Governor Hughes 
on Saturday, December 2Sth, and had presented the plans of 
the Commission to the Governor very fully. Mr. Ridder 
felt assured of the Governor's very hearty interest in the 
proposed celebration. 



January 22, 1908 379 

The President also read the following passage from the 
Governor's message to the Legislature on January i, 1908: 

" Fitting preparation should be made for the celebration 
in the year of 1909 of the three hundredth anniversaries 
of the discoveries of Lake Champlain and the Hudson 
River. The former is an event of interstate and interna- 
tional importance, and a commission representing the State 
is co-operating with a Vermont commission in perfecting 
suitable plans. It is hoped that the Federal government will 
give assistance, and that through its offices the government 
of the Dominion of Canada and the republic of France will 
be invited to participate. 

" In view of the far-reaching results, the celebration of 
Hudson's discovery should be planned upon an adequate 
scale, and in every respect should be worthy of the State. 
In connection with this celebration, the first voyage of 
Fulton's steamboat up the Hudson river will also be com- 
memorated. This subject is in charge of a commission, 
which is giving the matter careful attention. 

" Suitable appropriations should be made for these pur- 
poses, which can hardly fail to deepen the interest of our 
people, and notably of our youth, in the study of our 
history, and to stimulate that patriotic sentiment which we 
should lose no opportunity to intensify." 

The President of the United States Invited. 

The President read three letters which, by the direction 
of the Executive Committee, he and the Secretary had ad- 
dressed to the President of the United States on January 
16, 1908, and the acknowledgment of President Roosevelt's 
Secretary. The first letter, requesting the honor of the 
presence of President Roosevelt at the celebration, was as 
follows : 

New York, January 16, 1908. 
The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 

President of the LTnited States, 

The White House, Washington, D. C. 
Sir : In behalf of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, representing the State and City of New York, we 
have the honor to request the pleasure of your presence 
in the City of New York, as the guest of the State and 
City, during the Celebration, beginning on September 20, 
1909, of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the 



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Hudson River by Henry Hudson and the looth anniversary 
of the successful apphcation of steam to the navigation of 
the same by Robert Fuhon. 

We leave the day of the week to be accommodated to 
your convenience at the time. 

Trusting that we may be favoreil with your acceptance, 
we remain, with assurances of our high regard, 
Very respectfully yours, 

Stewart L. Woodford, President. 
Henry W. Sackett, Secretary. 

The United States Navy Invited. 

The second letter requested the participation and co- 
operation of the United States Navy, and was as follows: 

New York, January 16, 1908. 
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 

President of the United States, 

The White House, Washington, D. C. 

Sir : The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, ap- 
pointed by the Governor of the State and the Mayor of 
the City of New York, to arrange for the celebration, in 
1909, of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the 
Hudson River and the lOOth anniversary of the successful 
application of steam to navigation by Robert Fulton, have 
the honor to invite, through you as Commander-in-Chief, 
the participation of the United States Navy in the naval 
rendezvous in New York harbor on Monday, September 
20, 1909, and in the exercises during the following week. 

It is the desire of tlie Commission not only to have present 
in the waters about New York as many vessels of our Navy 
as may be compatible with public interests at that time, and 
that the officers participate in' the customary official func- 
tions, but also that they may co-operate with this Commis- 
sion in making welcome the representatives of foreign gov- 
ernments whom we have had the honor to ask you in an- 
other communication of this date to invite. 

We also very respectfully request that the sailors and 
marine corps be permitted to take part in the land parade 
and aquatic sports ; that some of the vessels be allowed to 
take part in the naval parade to Newburgh Bay ; that the 
fleet be illuminated on an evening to be designated for a 
general illumination ; and that the officers be permitted to 
co-operate with this Commission in such other ways as 
may address themselves to their good judgment. 



January 22, 1908 381 

During the celebration, it will be the pleasure of the 
Commission to extend to the naval representatives every 
evidence of the Commission's distinguished consideration. 
We have the honor to remain, 

Yours very respectfully, 

Stewart L. Woodford, President. 
Henry W. Sackett, Secretary. 

Foreign Nations Invited. 

The third letter requested the President of the United 
States to invite foreign nations to participate in the cele- 
bration and was as follows : 

New York, January 16, 1908. 
The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 

President of the United States, 

The White House, Washington, D. C. 

Sir: In the name of the State of New York and the 
City of New York, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission has the honor very respectfully to ask you to invite 
the foreign nations accredited to this Government to par- 
ticipate, each by the presence of one or more of its naval 
vessels and by an official representative, in the celebration 
in 1909 of the three hundredth anniversary of Henry Hud- 
son's discovery of the river which perpetuates his name, 
and the one htmdredth anniversary of the successful ap- 
plication of steam to navigation by Robert Fulton. 

This Commission, which is composed of persons ap- 
pointed by the Governor of the State of New York and the 
Mayor of the City of New York and chartered by chapter 
325 of the Laws of 1906, has adopted a plan of celebration, 
some features of which, — as, for instance, the art and edu- 
cational exhibits in the Museums, — will extend over a 
period of several months in the year 1909; but the principal 
exercises will occupy eight days beginning on Saturday, 
September 18, 1909. 

Saturday and Sunday, the i8th and 19th, will be devoted 
to religious exercises. 

Monday, September 20, 1909, is the date set for the be- 
ginning of the Naval Rendezvous in the harbor of New 
York ; and the Commission requests the honor of the pres- 
ence of the foreign ships and representatives at the City 
of New York during the secular week beginning on that 
day. 

Upon that day a formal reception will be tendered to 
these visitors, and while they remain our guests during the 



382 Minutes of Trustees 

week, we will endeavor to accord them every courtesy which 
their eminent official character, their distinguished personal 
merits and our own sentiments of cordial hospitality dictate. 
With assurances of our high esteem, we remain, 
With great respect, 

Stewart L. Woodford, President. 
Henry W. Sackett, Secretary. 

President Roosevelt's Inquiry. 

President Roosevelt's acknowledgment, by the hand of 
his secretary, was as follows : 

THE white house, 
WASHINGTON. 

January 18, 1908. 

My dear General : Your three letters of the i6th instant 
have been received and laid before the President, who re- 
quests me to inquire of you what provision has been made 
for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration by the State and the 
City of New York. 

A^ery truly yours, 

Wm. Loeb, Jr., 
Secretary to the President. 

General Stewart L. Woodford, 
President, 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Building, New York, N. Y. 

Gen. Woodford said that from this letter he inferred that 
President Roosevelt hesitated to send the desired invitations 
to foreign nations and to issue the desired orders to our 
own navy until he knew what provision had been made by 
the State and City of New York to meet the expenses of 
the celebration. The President of the Commission would 
confer with Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Committee on 
Law and Legislation, and make a suitable reply to President 
Roosevelt's inquiry. 

Conniiiftee .Ippoiiitiiieiits and Changes. 
The President announced the appointment of committees 
authorized by the resolution adopted by the Executive 
Committee December 9, 1907, together with certain changes, 
as follows: 



January 22, 1908 383 

Executive Committee. 

To the vacancy which formerly existed in the Executive 

Committee, the President appointed the Hon. William Berri. 

The death of Mr. Jesup leaves another vacancy yet to 

be filled. The Executive Committee therefore stands as 

follows : 

Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, i8 Wall Street, New York, 
John E. Parsons, Vice-Chatrnian, 

Hon. James M. Beck. Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan,U.S.A., Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. William J Curtis, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Mr. John La Farge, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Hon. William McCarrolI, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, (One vacancy.) 

Laiv and Legislation Comtnittee. 
The President recommended that the title of the present 
" Committee on Law " be changed to " Committee on Law 
and Legislation," thus defining its duties not only to pass 
upon legal questions but also to draft and attend to neces- 
sary legislation. The personnel of the Committee to remain 
as at present, namely : 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Nominations Committee. 

In the Committee on Nominations, Col. John W. Vrooman 

was appointed in place of Mr. J. Edward Simmons, who 

was unable to serve, the Committee standing as follows : 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Col. John W Vrooman, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-oMcio. 



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Auditing Committee. 
In order more clearly to differentiate the duties of the 
present Finance Committee and the Ways and Means Com- 
mittee, the President recommended changing the title of the 
former to "Auditing Committee." The personnel to re- 
main the same as at present, namely : 

Hon. N. Taylor, Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

Ways and Means Committee. 

No change was made in the Committee on Ways and 

Means, which stands as follows : 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William St., New York. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, The President, ex-ofhcio. 

Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 

Plan and Scope Conunittee. 
It was recommended that the title of the General Com- 
mittee on Plan and Scope be changed by dropping the word 
" General ;" and to the Committee were added the Chairmen 
of the other Committees having charge of arrangements. 
The Committee is thus composed of the following members : 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 

Hon, James M. Beck, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.N., Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Mr. Robert W. De Forest, Mr. Francis .Lynde Stetson, 
Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, U.S.A., Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Dr George F. Kunz, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Wm. McCarroll, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, The President, cx-oMcio. 

Naval Parade Committee. 
The Sub-Committee on Naval Parade was discharged as 
a sub-committee of the Plan and Scope Committee, and re- 
appointed as a full committee with the addition of Mr. 
Charles R. Norman and Mr. August F. Jaccaci. The Com- 
mittee is as follows : 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 
59 West 45th Street, New York. 
Const'r Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob W. Miller, 
Mr. Aueust F. Jaccaci, Mr. Chas. R. Norman, 

Mr. William J. McKay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 
U. S. N., 



January'^22, 1908 385 

Military Parade Committee. 

The present sub-Committee on Land Parade and Literary- 
Exercises was discharged and three Committees appointed 
in its place, namely : a Committee on Military Parade, a 
Committee on Civic Parade and a Committee on Official 
Literary Exercises. The members of the sub-Committee 
on land Parade, etc., were reappointed as the Committee on 
Military Parade with the exception that Gen. Anson G. 
McCook was substituted for Gen. James Grant Wilson, who 
was made Chairman of the Committee on Official Literary 
Exercises. The Committee on Military Parade then stands 
as follows: 

Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Ctvic^Parade Committee. 

The President appointed the Hon. William Berri Chair- 
man of the Committee on Civic Parade, the other members 
of the committee to be announced later. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee. 
To have charge of the official literary exercises, the fol- 
lowing Committee was appointed : 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman, 157 W. 79th St., New York. 
Mr. R. P. Bolton, Mr. Wm. L. Stone, 

Mr. Edward DeWitt, Mr. Albert Ulmann, 

Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 

Memorials Committee. 

The sub-Committee on Dedication of Mem.orials was dis- 
charged as a sub-Committee and reappointed as a Com- 
mittee on Memorials, its duties to include not only the 
dedication of memorials not otherwise provided for, but 
also the erection of a suitable number of tablets by the 
Commission. The personnel remains unchanged : 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 85 Liberty Street. New York. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 



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Fulton Water Gate Committee. 
A new committee for the special purpose of co-operating 
with the Robert Fulton Monument Association in the dedi- 
cation of the Water Gate, was appointed, consisting of: 

Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chairman, 15 Washington Square, 
New York. 
Mr. R. Fulton Cutting, Mr. R. Fulton Ludlow, 

Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Com. Jacob W. Miller. 

Inwood Park Committee. 
The sub-Committee on Park and Memorial at Inwood 
was discharged as a sub-committee and reappointed under 
the title of Committee on Inw^ood Park, as follows: 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William St., New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Verplanck's Point Park Committee. 
The sub-Committee on State Park at Verplanck's Point 
was discharged as a sub-committee and reappointed under 
the title of the Committee on Verplanck's Point Park, as 
follows : 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Sub-Coiinntttccs Discharged. 
The sub-Committees on Date, Exhibition of Motive 
Power, and Cooperation were discharged. 

Reception Committee. 
The following Reception Committee was appointed, sub- 
ject to additions: 

Hon. Seth Low, Chairman, 30 East 64th Street New York. 

Col. John Jacob Astor, Hon. Grover Cleveland. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan,U.S.N., 

Hon. Frank S. Black, Most Rev. John M. Farley, 

Hon. A. J. Boulton, Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, U. S. A., 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. E. H. Hall, 

Mr. John Claflin, Hon. David B. Hill, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Hon. Henry E. Howland, 



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Col. William Jay, 

Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 

Col. John J. McCook, 

Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 

U. S. N., 
Hon. John G. Milburn, 
Mr. Ogden Mills, 
Mr. J. P. Morgan, 
Mr. Fordham Morris, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Gen. Horace Porter, 
Rt. Rev. H. C. Potter, 
Mr. Thos. R. Proctor, 



Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Mr. Wm. Rockefeller, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Pres. J. G. Schurnian, 

Mr. I. N. Seligman, 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Hon. William R. Willcox, 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 



Invitations Com^nittee. 
In announcing' the Committee whose duty it would be to 
issue the invitations which would go to different parts of 
the world, the President stated that it was composed of the 
only living ex-President of the United States, an ex- Vice 
President of the United States, and ex-United States Am- 
bassadors to Great Britain, France and Russia respectively. 
The Committee is as follows : 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Chairman, Princeton, N. J. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

The Secretary, ex officio. 

Art and Historical Exhibits Committee. 
The President stated tliat in appointing the Committee 
on Art and Historical Exhibits, he was very happy to an- 
nounce that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, President of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, had consented to take the 
chairmanship and had approved of the composition of the 
committee. This committee was composed of two sub- 
committees. The one having charge of the art exhibit in 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art consisted of the Secretary, 
the Director and the Assistant Director of the Museum. 
The other, having charge of the historical and archaeological 
exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History will, 
when complete, consist of a distinguished scientist, the 
President of the Museum (when Mr. Jesup's successor as 
such is chosen) and the President of the New York His- 



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torical Society. These exhibits, extending- over several 
months, said the President, are expected to be one of the 
cardinal features of the celebration. The Committee is as 
follows : 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 23 Wall street, New York. 
Sub-Committee i Hon. Robert VV. De Forest, Chairman, 
on •< Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Art Exhibits. ( Mr. Edward Robinson. 

Sub-Committee i Dr. George F. Kunz, Chairman, 
on Historical -j Mr. S. V. Hoffman. 
Exhibits. ( (One vacancy.) 

General Commemorative Exercises Committee. 

The President stated his intention to name a Committee 
to arrange for general commemorative exercises by uni- 
versities, colleges, schools, and patriotic, historical and 
learned societies throughout the State, and subsequently 
announced the following appointments : 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Hon. David A. Boody, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Col. Wm. Cary Sanger, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

President's Reconunendations Adopted. 
The various recommendations made by the President in 
appointing the foregoing committees, as to changes in the 
titles and duties of the committees, were approved. 

Appointments by Governor Hughes. 

The Secretary read a letter dated December 23, 1907, 
from the Secretary of Governor Hughes, in which he stated 
that he was directed by the Governor to say that it gave 
him pleasure to appoint as members of this Commission, in 
accordance with the recommendation of the Trustees, Mr. 
Qiarles H. Armatage of Albany, Mr. Frank J. Collier of 
Hudson, and Hon. Arthur MacArthur of Troy. 

The letter was ordered on file and the Secretary instructed 
to add the names of these gentlemen to the list of members 
of the Commission. 



January 22, 1908 389 

Nominations by Governor Stokes of Nezv Jersey, 
The Secretary read a communication dated Trenton, 
N. J., January 17, 1908, from the Hon. E. C. Stokes, Gov- 
ernor of New Jersey, stating that in accordance with the 
invitation of the Governor of New York, at the suggestion 
of this Commission, he had nominated the following named 
gentlemen from New Jersey to serve on the Commission: 
Hon. John F. Dryden of Newark, ex-Gov. Frankhn 
Murphy of Newark, ex-Gov. John W. Griggs of Paterson, 
ex-Gov. Foster M. Voorhees of EHzabeth, ex-Gov. Geo. T. 
Werts of Jersey City, Hon. John Dyneley Prince of Ring- 
wood, Mr. James Kerney of Trenton, Mr. Wallace M. 
Scudder of Newark, Mr. William T. Hunt of Newark and 
Mr. Henry M. Doremus of Newark. The letter was 
ordered on file. 

Appointments by Mayor McClellan. 

The Secretary read a letter dated December 21, ig^-y, 
from the Secretary of the Mayor of New York, communi 
eating the appointment of Mr. William Homan, Hon. Town- 
send Scudder and Mr. Stevenson Taylor as members of this 
Commission in accordance with the recommendation of 
the Trustees ; also a letter dated January 9, 1908, from tlie 
Mayor's Secretary, communicating the appointment of Hon. 
Robert W. De Forest of No. 7 Washington Square North, 
Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mr. Samuel 
Verplanck Hoffman of No. 258 Broadway, President of the 
New York Flistorical Society; Mr. Jacob Katz of No. 124 
East 85th street, real estate and insurance ; and Mr. Edward 
Robinson, Assistant Director of the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art, as members of the Commission. 

The letters were ordered on file and the Secretary 
directed to add the names of the appointees to the list of 
members. 

Visit from the Minister from The Netherlands. 
The Assistant Secretary read a communication dated 
Washington, January 14, 1908, from Jonkheer R. de Marees 
van Swinderen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- 



390 Minutes of Trustees 

potentiary from the Netlierlands to the United States, ad- 
dressed to the Secretary of the Commission, stating" that he 
expected to sail for Holland the following' week and ex- 
pressing the desire for an interview with the Secretary on 
Friday, the 17th. An unavoidable engagement out of town 
prevented the Secretary from seeing the Minister, but he 
was received by the Assistant Secretary on the day stated. 
Jonkheer van Swinderen stated that he called in his per- 
sonal, not official, capacity in order to express the great 
interest which tlie people of Holland took in the approach- 
ing celebration and to inform himself concerning the plans 
of the Commission before returning temporarily to his own 
country. He expected to return to Washington in May. 
The Assistant Secretary said that he gave the Alinister very 
full information concerning the plans for 1909 and recipro- 
cated, in behalf of the Commission, the cordial sentiments 
expressed by Minister van Swinderen. 

Corrcspoiiding Forcig>i Cumiscllors Sugi^cstcd. 

Mr. Bergen supplemented the statement of the Assistant 
Secretary by referring to certain correspondence, as yet 
confidential, which it was believed would materially promote 
the interest of the people of Holland in the celebration and 
assist in its expression. With a view to fostering the feel- 
ing of international good will and i)romoting co-operation, 
Mr. Bergen suggested the ]:)ropriety of inviting a few 
prominent gentlemen in Holland to act as " Coresponding 
Foreign Counsellors " to this Commission. Such a position 
would be one of dignity in the estimation of their country- 
men and would enliven their sympathy and stimulate their 
active co-operation. He therefore moved that the subject 
of such appointments be referred to a committee, of which 
the President of the Commission should be one, with power 
to act as the committee deemed best. 

The motion was carried, and the President named as his 
associates on the committee, Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the 
Committee on Law and Legislation, and Mr. Fitch, Chair- 
man of the Committee on Nominations, 



January 22, 1908 391 

Loan of Collier's Painting. 
The Secretary read a letter dated January 8, igoS, from 
the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary from the United States to Great Britain, 
stating that he would take pleasure in doing what he could 
to secure from the government of Great Britain the loan of 
Collier's painting of "' Hudson's Last Voyage," as suggested 
by Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke at the meeting of October 23, 
1907. The letter was ordered on file. 

Arctic Club's Tender of Co-operation. 
The Secretary read a communication dated New York, 
January 2, 1908, from Capt. B. S. Osbon, Secretary of The 
Arctic Club, stating that as Henry Hudson was identified 
with polar research, and, besides stamping his name on our 
great river, also marked his strenuous work by impressing 
his name upon a great bay and strait in the far north, the 
Arctic Club felt it to be its duty to honor the explorer's 
memory in every way, and tendered its hearty co-operation 
to the Commission in arranging for the celebration. Re- 
ferred to the Plan and Scope Committee. 

Colonial Dauics Offer Their Co-operation. 
The Secretary read a communication dated New York, 
January 14, 1908, from Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury, a member 
of this Commission and a member of the Colonial Dames of 
the State of New York, addressed to the President of the 
Commission, expressing the interest of the Colonial Dames 
in the approaching celebration and their readiness to assist in 
promoting it. The Secretary also read the reply of the 
President, dated January 15. 1908, assuring Mrs. Atterbury 
of the Commission's cordial appreciation of her oflfer. The 
corespondence was referred to the Committee on Plan and 
Scope. 

Nominated for Appointment by Mayor McClellan. 
Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations, 
reported the recommendation of the following named gen- 
tlemen for appointment by the Mayor of New York as 



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members of the Commission : Hon. John Bigelow, No. 21 
Gramercy Park, lawyer, author and piibhcist ; Mr. Herbert 
L. Bridg^man, manager of the Brooklyn Standard Union ; 
Gen. Howard Carroll, No. 41 Park Row, author, Inspector 
General of New York Troops in the Spanish War and Vice- 
President of the Starin Transportation Co. ; Hon. John D. 
Crimmins, 40 East 68th street, contractor, ex'-Park Com- 
missioner, etc. and identified with many charitable institu- 
tions ; Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, No. 89 Madison avenue, 
physician and surgeon, author, and donor of the Emmet 
Collection to Lenox Library ; Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, No. 
524 Fifth avenue, former Presiding Justice of the Appellate 
Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First De- 
partment ; and Mr. Henry L. Stoddard, 203 Broadway, 
editor of the Evening Mail. 

The report was received and the recommendations 
adopted. 

Conference zcith Up-Stofe Coniinittce. 
Mr. Seward, Chairman of the Committee on Plan and 
Scope, reported that previous to the meeting of the Board 
of Trustees, there had been a joint meeting of the Plan and 
Scope Committee of this Commission and representatives 
of the Up-State Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee. 
The latter were the Hon. Charles H. Gaus, Mayor of 
Albany and President of the Committee ; Mr. Cornelius F. 
Burns, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Troy ; 
Hon. Henry Hudson, Mayor of Hudson ; and Mr. Wm. 
Wortman, Cit}^ Clerk of Hudson. There had been a cordial 
interchange of views concerning the proposed celebration, 
in which the Up-State representatives expressed their 
earnest interest in the arrangements and their readiness to 
co-operate in carrying them out. They had also suggested 
that the sum of $300,000, which it was proposed to ask 
from the Legislature, was inadequate for a general cele- 
bration along the river from New York to the head of navi- 
gation at Troy, and that a larger sum should be asked for, 
with a view to making financial provision for the local cele- 
brations in the upper Hudson valley. The up-state repre^ 



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January 22, 1908 393 

sentatives had been assured, on behalf of the Commission, 
of the latter's desire to show every consideration to the com- 
munities which they represented, and to make the celebra- 
tion as g^eneral as possible throughout the whole Hudson 
valley, and even the State at large. The exchange of ideas 
had been entirely informal, and, in view of the present un- 
certainty concerning" the appropriation, no conclusion was 
arrived at. 

The report was received. 

Amendment of Charter and Appropriation. 

Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Committee on Law and 
Legislation, reported that the proposed act amending the 
Charter of the Commission and making an appropriation for 
the celebration, as printed on pages 361-363 of the Minutes, 
had been forwarded to Senator Raines with a request for 
its introduction. Senator Raines had expressed his readi- 
ness to introduce the bill, but suggested some changes in 
form which would be the subject of a conference between 
him and Mr. Stetson at Albany the following week. Report 
of progress received. 

Gen. Grant suggested that the question of increasing the 
amount of the appropriation be referred to Mr. Stetson's 
committee, and it was so referred. 

"Hudson River" Instead of "North River" 
Recommended. 

Commander Miller, referring to the custom of calling that 
portion of the river separating New York City and New 
Jersey the North River, and declaring that by this custom, 
New York City had no Hudson River, offered the following 
resolution : 

Whereas, the custom has grown to call the lower part of 
the Hudson abreast of New York the North River ; and 
whereas such double nomenclature is not only locally mis- 
leading but diminishes respect for the man who first ap- 
proached the river that bears his name through that portion 
popularly called the North River ; therefore be it 

Resolved, that this Commission use its influence in such 
way as the President may determine to have the whole 
stream Avhich Hudson discovered named after him. 



394 Minutes of Trustees 

Mr. Stetson stated the name North River had been ap- 
phed by the early Dutch settlers to this river to differentiate 
it from the Delaware or South River. 

Admiral Coghlan added that Fulton's first steamboat on 
the river was called " the North River of Clermont." 

The resolution was carried. 

Official Flag Recommended. 

Mr. Berri, Chairman of the Committee on Civic Parade, 
after stating that he accepted the position with hesitation, 
owing to the fact that the plans for the military parade had 
been under consideraion for some time while the plans for 
the civic parade remained to be formulated, suggested ^lie 
propriety of adopting an official flagi banner and shield for 
the occasion. He believed that many thousands of them 
would be used in the parade and in public decorations. 

On motion, the President referred the subject to the Com- 
mittee on Civic Parade. 

Highlands Park. 

Mr. Gregory inquired if the proposition to sequestrate the 
tlighlands of the Hudson for a public reservation had been 
considered by the Commission or any Committee of it. He 
spoke of the wide-spread sentiment that the remarkable 
scenery of the Hudson should be preserved by government 
intervention from disfigurement and believed that the pro- 
ject was a commendable one. 

The Secretary read from the minutes of the meeting of 
the Committee on Law and Legislation held December 17, 
1907, the following extract : 

" The Chairman laid before the Committee a letter from 
Mr. F. P. Albert asking the Commission to advocate a bill 
authorizing the purchase by condemnation of the shores of 
the Hudson river for the protection of the scenery. After 
a general discussion of the subject it was voted as the sense 
of the committee that while the object to be attained was de- 
sirable, it was inexpedient for the Commission to advocate 
a measure which would involve so large an appropriation 
by the State and might interfere with the other plans of the 
Commission." 



January 22, 1908 395 

Mr. Stetson stated that after the meeting of his commit- 
tee on December 17 he had communicated to Mr. Albert the 
action ; and that in a letter to the New York Evening Post 
of January 20, 1908, Mr. Albert had questioned the ac- 
curacy of Mr. Stetson's statements concerning the expense 
of acquiring title to riparian property along the river. Mr. 
vStetson stated to the Trustees his authority for his state- 
ments and reiterated his belief that while the project of 
preserving the beauty of the Hudson was entirely commend- 
able, it was unwise for the Commission to commit itself to a 
bill requiring a large appropriation for that purpose. 

Mr. Gregory said that the purpose of his inquiry was 
not to urge the Commission to undertake the matter but to 
elicit information. He believed that the project itself was 
commendable. 

The Secretary moved that the action of the Committee on 
Law and Legislation be approved. Carried. 

The Chairman of the Committee on Plan and Scope filed 
with the Secretary letters from the following named per- 
sons favoring the Highlands Park: Messrs. F. P. Albert, 
(3), S. J. Barrows, F. W. Devoe, W. H. Douglas, C. W. 
McCutchen, John P. Truesdell, Daniel T. Wade, J. DuPratt 
White and Mornay Williams. 

Verplanck's Point Park. 

The Secretary reported that on January 7, 1908, the Hon. 
L H. Smith of Peekskill had introduced in the Assembly 
" An act to provide for acquiring land on Verplanck's 
Point in Westchester County for a Hudson-Fulton Mem- 
orial Park and making an appropriation therefor." The 
bill is the same as that introduced in the last Legislature and 
printed on pages 260 and 261 of the Minutes of this Cofii- 
mission. 

Assistant Secretary's Salary Increased. 

The Secretary moved that in view of the increase in and 
character of the labors of the Assistant Secretary his salary 



396 Minutes of Trustees 

be fixed at $3,000 instead of $2,500 for the year beginning 
February 1, 1908. The motion was seconded by Mr. Sew- 
ard and unanimously carried. 
The meeting" then adjourned. 

Menry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Abraham Abraham. 
Herbert Adams. 
John G. A^-ar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Chas. H. Armatage. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor William J. 

Baxter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. John Bigelow. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
Herbert L. Bridgman. 
George V. Brower. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

lan. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon Robt. W. deFc.esl. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 



James de la Montayne. 

E. S. A. deLima. 

Hon. C. M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

Gtor^f G. DeU'itt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thos. A. Emmet. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. 
Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassitt. 

P.arr Ferree. 

Stuyvesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Wi-nchester Fitch. 

James J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Chas. .9. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 

George f. Gould. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon." Edward _ M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edw. Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. A. Hearn. 

James A. Hearn. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

Hon. Warren Hi^iew. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 

Tames P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Homan. 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Hoyt. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 

Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D. Huntting. 

August h . Jaccaci. 

Col. William Jay. 

Jacob Katz. 

[ Names'of )Trustees"in" italics. ] 



Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Ketcham. 

Gen. Horatio C. K'ing. 

Albert E. Kleinert. 

Dr. George F. Kuns. 

John LaFarge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

Frederick S. Lamb. 

Homer Lee. 

Charles W. Lefler. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss. 

Dr. Henry M. Leipsiger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

Herman Livingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Selli Low. 

R. Fulton Ludlow. 

Hon. Arthur MacArthur. 

William A. Marble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook. 

Col. John J. McCook. 

Donald McDonald. 

William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milbttrn. 

Frank D. Millet. 

Com. Jacob IV. .MitUr. 

Hon. Warner Miller. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogden Mills. 

J. Pierpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham Morris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Wm. C. Muschenheim. 

Nathan Newman. 

C. H. Niehaus. 

Ludwig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Chas. R. Norman. 

H»n. More:anJ. O'Brien. 

W. R. d'Donovan. 

Eben E. Olcott. 

Prof. Henry F. Osborn. 

Wm. Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'SulHvan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel A. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Howland PelL 

Hon. Geo. IV. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 



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George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W. Sackctt. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 

Chas. A. .Schermerhorn. 

Jacob H. Schiff. 

Prest. Jacob G. Schur- 
man. 

Gustaz' H. Schwab. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Isaac N. Sflis;>nan. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. Fenner. 

Hon. Fred^k. II'. Sfward. 

Hon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 



Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

/. Edward Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

E. V. Skinner. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Wm. L. Stone. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

Stevenson Taylor. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Tow.nsend. 

Spencer Trask. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lt.-Coiii. Aaron I'ander- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

[Names of Trustees in italics,} 



Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke. 

Warner Van Norden. 

Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahlc. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

Edward Wells, Jr. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

J. Du Pratt White. 

Fred C. Whitney. 

Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

Stewart L. Woodford. 

Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 

W. E. Woolley. 

James A. Wright. 



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President 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder. Presiding Vice-President. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter. 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Art and Historical ExHibits Committee 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 23 Wall street, New York. 
Sub-Committee ( Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Chairman, 
on ' •] Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Art Exhibits. ( Mr. Edward Robinson. 
Sub-Committee ( Dr. George F. Kunz, Chairman, 
on Historical < Mr. S. V. Hoffman. 
Exhibits. ( (One vacancy.) 

A\aditing Committee 

Hon. N. Taylor. Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

Banquet Committee 

Col. William Jay, Chairman, 48 Wall Street, New York. 
Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Civic Parade Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder. Chairman, 182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. B. Altmari, Hon. Lewis Nixon, 

Mr. August Belmont, Mr. Eben E. Olcott. 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. William Church Osborn, 

Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 

Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. Howland Pell, 

Hon. George C. Clausen, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Mr. George Ehret, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Mr. Frank S. Gardner, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 

Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. William Sohmer. 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. James Speyer, 

Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Louis Stern, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. J. Leonard Vanck, 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 



401 

Executive Committee 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, i8 Wall Street, New York, 

Mr. John E. Parsons,, Vice-Chairman, 

Hon. James M. Beck, Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan,U.S.A., Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Mr. William J Curtis, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Col. William Jay, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Mr. John La Farge, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Fulton "Water Gate Committee 

Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chairman, 15 Washington Square, 
New York. 
Mr. R. Fulton Cutting, Mr. R. Fulton Ludlow, 

Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Com. Jacob W. Miller. 

General Commemorative Exercises Committee 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Hon. David A. Boody, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Col. Wm. Gary Sanger, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Invitations Committee 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Chairman, Princeton, N. J. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

The Secretary, ex oiHcio. 

In^vood ParK Committee 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, <^2 William St.. New York 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon, George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. ' 

La-w and Legislation Committee 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jav, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, The President, e.v-oMcio. 



402 

Memorials Committee 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 85 Liberty Street, New York. 
Col. William Jav, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 

Military Parade Committee 

Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Naval Parade Comimittee 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 
59 West 45th Street, New York. 
Const'r Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob W. Miller, 
Gen Howard Carroll, Mr. Chas. R. Norman, 

Mr August F. Jaccaci, Hon. John H. Starm, 

Mr William J. McKay, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 
U. S. N., 

Nominations Committee 

Mr Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Col. John W. Vrooman, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, The President, cx-oMcio. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman, 157 W. 79th St., New York. 
Mr. R. P Bolton, Mr. Wm. L. Stone, 

Mr. Edward DeWitt, - Mr. Albert Ulmann, 

Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 

Plan and Scope Committee 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. William Berri. Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Rear Adm. T- B. Coghlan, U.S. N., Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Mr. Robert" W. De Forest, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Maj. -Gen. Fred'kD. Grant, U.S.A., Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low. Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. Wm. McCarroll, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, The President, cx-officio. 

Reception Committee 

Hon. Seth Low, Chairman, 30 East 64th Street New York. 

Col. John Jacob Astor, Hon. Grover Cleveland, 

Hon. James M. Beck, Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.N., 

Hon. Frank S. Black, Most Rev. John M. Farley, 

Hon. A. J. Boulton, I\Laj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, U. S. A.. 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. E. H. Hall, 

Mr. John Claflin, Hon. David B. Hill, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Hon. Henry E. Howland, 



Reception Committee {continued) 



403 



Col. William Jay, 

Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 

Col. John J. McCook, 

Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 

U. S. N., 
Hon. John G. Milburn, 
Mr. Ogden Mills, 
Mr. J. P. Morgan, 
Mr. Fordham Morris, , 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Gen. Horace Porter, 
Rt. Rev. H. C. Potter, 
Mr. Thos. R. Proctor, 



Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Mr. Wm. Rockefeller, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Pres. J. G. Schurman, 

Mr. I. N. Seligman, 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Hon. William R. Willcox, 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. Timothy L. Woodrufif. 



VerplancK's Point ParK Committee 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 



"Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Cliairman, 182 William St., New York. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 



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405 
Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

February 3, 1908. 

The fifth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was held, pur- 
suant to call of the Chairman, at the headquarters of the 
Commission in the Tribune building, 154 Nassau street, 
New York City, Monday, February 3, 1908, at 3.30 p. m. 

Roll Call. 

Present: Chairman Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; 
and Hon. James AI. Beck, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Rear 
Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. Tlieodore Fitch, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Col. William Jay, Mr. John 
E. Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Louis C. 
Raegener, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. 
Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, and Gen. 
James Grant Wilson. 

Ex fused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Dr. George F. 
Kunz, Hon. Wm. McCarroll, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. 
Levi P. Morton, and Hon. Andrew D. White, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of the fourth meeting of the Executive Com- 
mittee, held December 9, 1907, having been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved as printed. 

Reply to President Roosevelt. 

The Secretary read the three letters addressed to Presi- 
dent Roosevelt on Jainiary 16, 1908, and the inquiry of the 
President concerning the provision made by the State and 
City of New York for the celebration in 1909. (See pages 
3,79-38i«of the Minutes.) 



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The Chairman reported that on Tuesday, January 28, 
1908, he accompanied Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman 
of the Committee on Law and Legislation to Albany, where 
they had an interview with Senator Armstrong, Chairman 
of the Finance Committee, and Senator Raines, a member 
of that Committee. There were present also Hon. Charles 
H. Cans, Mayor of Albany; Mr. Cornelius F. Burns, Presi- 
dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Troy ; Hon. Henry 
Hudson, Mayor of Hudson; and Mr. William Wortman, 
City Clerk of Hudson, Members of the Up-State Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Committee. The President of this Com- 
mission and Mr. Stetson laid before the Senators the 
reasons for appropriating $300,000 for the celebration at 
and south of Newburgh, stating that this was the smallest 
amount that would meet the necessities of the occasion, 
and assuring them of their desire to have them appropriate 
as much more as they could for the celebration along the 
upper reaches of the river. Senator Armstrong expressed 
a cordial interest in the celebration and assured the Com- 
missioners that their requests would be met as fully as the 
condition of the treasury warranted. He recommended, 
however, that instead of introducing a separate appro- 
priation bill, the appropriation be embodied in the supply 
bill, which would probably be passed in March. In view of 
the situation as developed by this interview, the following 
letter to President Roosevelt had been drafted : 

New York, February 3, 1908. 
William Loeb, Jr., Esq., 

Secretary to the President, 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir : I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 
of January i8th. asking what provision has been made for 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration by the State and City of 
New York, and now reply thereto. 

The State has provided amply for our incidental and 
preliminary expenses and the citv furnishes us with suitable 
rooms for our Secretary and Clerks in the Tribune Ixiilding. 



February 3, 1908 407 

Immediately upon receipt of your letter, arrangements 
were made for a hearing- before the Finance Committee of 
the Senate of the State of New York, upon the application 
theretofore made for a specific appropriation for the Cele- 
bration as recommended by Governor Hughes in his annual 
message. 

Accordingly, such hearing was had upon Tuesday, Jan- 
uary 28th ; and the Finance Committee announced their 
conclusion that in view of the other demands upon the 
State Treasury, it would be better that this special appro- 
priation should be embraced in the Annual Supply Bill, 
which will be enacted probably during the last fortnight of 
the session. In announcing this conclusion, the Finance 
Committee expressed its entire sympathy with the purposes 
of the Commission, and indicated its intention to make a 
proper and adequate appropriation. 

In view, however, of the pendency of this undetermined 
application, I am instructed by the Commission that it is 
better that our former request for an invitation to foreign 
nations should remain in abeyance until after action upon 
the Supply Bill, when I will at once communicate with you. 

I am, your obedient servant, 

Stewart L. Woodford, 

President. 

On motion of Mr. Parsons, the letter was approved as 
read, and the Chairman authorized to send it to President 
Roosevelt. 

U p-Statc Appropriation. 
The Secretary read the following letter: 

Hudson, N. Y., January 30, 1908. 

Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, President Board of Trustees, 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, New York 
City : 
Dear Sir : Pursuant to the suggestion emanating from 
your Board of Trustees, representatives of the various 
cities and villages bordering on and in the vicinity of that 
part of the Hudson River northerly from Newburgh, met 
in the city of Albany, N. Y., on November 30, 1907, and 
organized what has since been commonly known as an up- 
State Committee, having as its object the furtherance of the 
plans and purposes of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, and this committee has since that time been giving 
the matter its careful attention. 



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We are of the opinion, and believe you will concur with 
us, that in order to properly and fittingly commemorate this 
anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River and the 
•successful steam navigation thereof, the ceremonies attend- 
ant upon the celebration should be extended along the 
entire length of the river, instead of from New York Har- 
bor to Newburgh, as previously arranged; that the dupli- 
cates of the Clermont and Half Moon, together with their 
accompanying flotilla, should pursue the same course, and 
all of such course, as did the two original boats which they 
typify. In other words, Henry Hudson, when he dis- 
covered the river which bears his name, did not ascend as 
far as the present site of the city of Newburgh and then 
return to New York Harbor, but continued on northerly, 
and likewise should the celebration of this notable event 
be continued northerly to the City of Troy, the vessels 
stopping for a day at each city and principal village along 
the route. Should this plan be adopted each of these 
cities and villages propose to hold a local celebration on the 
day on which the flotilla makes its visit, the cities and vil- 
lages defraying their own expenses for these local cele- 
brations. 

We would also state that it is our earnest desire that 
suitable monuments, statutes or tablets be erected or located 
at various points of vantage along the banks of the river, 
in order that this great event shall not be a transient one 
merely, but shall be perpetuated through future years by 
these visual permanent memorials. 

But of course it will be readily seen that in order to carry 
out these proposed plans and to properly observe this event, 
sufficient funds must be appropriated by the State of New 
York. and. through your Commission, placed at the disposal 
of this up-State Committee, to be used by it for that part of 
the Celebration north of Newburgh. after the termination 
of the ceremonies now contemplated to be held south of 
that point, and it is estimated that this Committee will re- 
quire the sum of $150,000 for this purpose. 

The resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission calls for an appropriation 
by the State of $300,000, for the purposes of the entire 
Celebration as far north as Newburgh. That resolution • 
has already been communicated to the Legislature bv the 
report of the Trustees, and it contains no allusion to the 
necessity for the further appropriation of $150,000, for the 
purposes indicated herein. This communication is sent to 
you at your suggestion and that of Mr. Francis Lynde 



February 3, 1908 409 

Stetson, Chairman of the Law Committee of the Board of 
Trustees, and with the hope that the trustees will transmit 
it to the Legislature at as early a date as possible. 

We would therefore respectfully request that the bill 
which is to be introduced in the State Legislature appro- 
priating funds to your Commission for this project, con- 
tain this item of $150,000, in order to make possible the 
Celebration in the upper part of the Hudson River, cover- 
ing the territory from Newburgh to Troy. 
Very respectfully, 

Wm. Worth an, 

■^ Ass't Sec'y Up-State Committee. 

Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Naval Parade Com- 
mittee, stated that the plan of the celebration had always 
contemplated a commemoration throughout the length of 
the river. It was originally intended to have the fac- 
similes of the Half ]\Ioon and Clermont escorted by the 
naval procession to Newburgh Bay, there to be transferred 
to the upper Hudson division and taken on at least as far 
as Albany. From Newburgh northward the smaller United 
States vessels and the torpedo boat flotilla would continue 
with the upper Hudson division, while the larger vessels 
would return to New York and participate in the illumi- 
nation at night. 

After some further discussion the letter was referred to 
the Chairman of the Executive Committee with power. 
The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of 



Trustees' Meeting 



February 26, 1908. 

The twenty-third meeting- of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters in 
the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street, New York 
City, Wednesday, February 26, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call 

"Present: President Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; and 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. A. J. Boulton, Mr. William J. 
Curtis, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man, Mr. Wm. C. Muschenheim, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Mr. 
Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. 
Edmund Wetmore and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Mr. Reginald P. Bolton and Mr. Wm. L. Stone, members 
of the Commission, were also present. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Hon. J. Rider Cady, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Dr. George 
Frederick Kunz, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Hon. Seth Lx)w, 
Rear Admiral George W. Melville, U. S. N., Mr. John E. 
Parsons, Mr. Herman Ridder, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, 
Prest. Jacob Gould Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Mr. 
Spencer Trask, Col. John W. Vrooman, Dr. Samuel B. 
Ward, Hon. Andrew D. White and Hon. Timothy L, Wood- 
ruff, and they were excused. 



February 26, 1908 411 

Approval of Minutes. 

The minutes of the last meeting, havnig been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved as printed. 

Treasurer's Report. 

The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, was 
received and ordered on file, as follows : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson- Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 
I have the honor to report the condition of the treasury 
on February 26, 1908, as follows: 

DEBIT. 

Balance on hand as reported January 22, 1908. $7,473 94 



CREDIT. 

Paid on approved vouchers : 

53. T. G. Sellew, repair of furniture $1 00 

54. J. B. Lyon Co., printing I 13 

55. E. H. Hall, disbursements $20 39 

Salary for December 208 33 

228 72 

56. L. R. Hamersley & Co., " Men of America " 5 00 

57. Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings i 53 

58. Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 4 35 

59. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 23 83 

60. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 21 50 

61. J. B. Lyon Co., printing i 23 

62. E. H. Hall, disbursements $12 36 

Salary for January 208 33 

220 69 

, Total credit $508 98 

Total debit 7>473 94 

Balance February 26, 1908 $6,964 96- 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 



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Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing- Committee : 

Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing letters $i 60 

Henry Romeike, press clippings in January.... i 17 

J. B. Lyon Co., minutes of January 22d 26 44 

J. B. Lyon Co., minutes of December 9, 18, 26.. 23 29 
State Treasurer, interest on deposits to Decem- 
ber 31, 1907 189 49 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $22 29 

Salary for February 250 00 

272 29 



$514 28 



Minute upon the Death of Mr. Morris K. Jesup. 

The committee, consisting of Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. 
Seth Low and ]Mr. J. Edward Simmons, appointed to pre- 
pare a minute upon the death of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, 
reported as follows : 

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, having 
been informed of the death of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, one of 
its members and a Vice-Pl'esident, deems the event of 
sufficient importance to be noted in its minutes. Mr. Jesup, 
by reason of his age, has not been especially active in the 
affairs of this Commission ; but, by virtue of his public 
spirit and his many services to the City and the State, his 
name, in connection with the work of the Commission, was 
a distinct source of strength. A patriotic man and a public 
spirited, the fact that this Celebration appealed to him 
strongly led it to appeal to others ; and the knowledge that 
it appealed to him gave to his associates upon the Com- 
mission a still greater interest in the undertaking committed 
to their care. Both on the side of history and on the side 
of science, this Celebration appealed to Mr. Jesup, and his 
associates greatly deplore that they are deprived of the 
inspiration of his fellowship and smypathy midway in their 
work. The City and the State are fortunate in having en- 
joyed so long the services of such a citizen. The loss to 
the City and the State by reason of his death is commen- 
surately great. His associates gladly bear this effectionate 
testimony to the usefulness and uplifting value of his life. 



February 26, 1908 413 

The minute was adopted by a rising vote and the Secre- 
tary was directed to send a copy to Mr. Jesup's family- 

Ciz'ic Parade Committee Appointed. 
The President announced the appointment of the follow- 
ing Committee on Civic Parade : 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. B. Altman, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 
Mr. August Belmont, " Hon. Lewis Nixon, 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. William Church Osljorn, 

Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 

Hon. George C. Clausen, Mr. Howland Pell, 

Mr. George Ehret, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Mr. Frank S. Gardner, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. William Sohmer, 

Gen. Horatio C. King, Mr. James Speyer, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Louis Stern, 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. J. Leonard Varick, 

Hon. Fordham Morris, jMr. Edmund Wetmore. 

Letter from Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
The Secretary read the following letter from the Hon. 
Grover Cleveland : 

Princeton, X. J., February 19, 1908. 
Henry W. Sackett, Esq., Secretary The Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission, Tribune Building, New York 
City : 
My Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 15th 
inst., notifying me of my appointment as Chairman of the 
Committee on Official Invitations to the Celebration to be 
given under the auspices of the Commission. 

I hope it may not be considered ungracious if I ask that 
some other name may be substituted for mine in this con- 
nection. Since my relationship with the Commission began 
1 have not been able to give even the little attention to it 
which at the time I accepted a place on the Executive Com- 
mittee I hoped I might be able to bestow on its details ; and 
with this in my mind I am unwilling under the circum- 
stances to accept a place so prominent and which ought to 
demand so much attention, as the one to which I have been 
newly designated. 

Hoping that what T have written will not subject me to 
the suspicion of any lack of sympathy with the purpose of 
the Commission, I am, 

Very sincerely yours, 

Grover Cleveland. 



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The Secretary also read the following reply by Presi- 
dent Woodford: 

New York, February 21, 1908. 

His Excellency, Grover Cleveland, 

Princeton, N. J. 

Dear Mr. President: Colonel Sackett sends me copy of 
your letter to him of February 19th instant, suggesting 
relief from the chairmanship of Committee on Official In- 
vitations. I named that Committee after very careful 
thought. It consists of one living ex-President; of Mr. 
Morton, an ex-Vice-President; of Mr. Choate, ex- Am- 
bassador to England ; of General Porter, ex-Ambassador to 
France, and Dr. White, ex-Ambassador to Germany. To 
these names we added that of Colonel Sackett, the Secretary 
of our Commission. 

No duty will be required of this Committee, except to 
vise the list of proposed invitations. That should take no 
time as they will be sent to each member of the Committee 
for revision, approval and suggestion. This can all be done 
by mail. Then the Secretary will attend to engraving and 
sending. 

I feel that I can guarantee that there shall be no burden 
laid on you. If necessary the Secretary will bring the list 
to you at Princeton, after it has been submitted to Vice- 
President Morton and the three Ambassadors. No name 
is worth so much to our Commission in adding dignity to 
our final official invitations as the name of Mr. Cleveland. 
I will see that nothing is done to embarrass or compromise 
your great position in any way. I want you to trust me in 
this, and let me have your great help. 

Faithfully your friend, 

Stewart L. Woodford. 

Appointments by Mayor McClellan. 

The Secretary read a letter dated January 30, 1908, from 
the Secretarv of His Honor, the Mayor of the City of New 
York, appointing Hon. John Bigelow, Mr. Herbert L. 
Bridgman, Gen. Howard Carroll, Hon. John D. Crimmins, 
Dr. Thomas A. Emmet, Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien and Mr. 
Henrv L. Stoddard as members of the Commission in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Trustees at 
their last meeting. 



February 26, 1908 415 

The letter was ordered on file and the Secretary was 
directed to add the names of the appointees to the list of 
members of the Commission. 

Mr. Jolin E. Parsons Elected a Vice-President. 

In the absence of Mr. Theodore Fitch, Giairman of the 
Committee on Nom.inations, the Assistant Secretary read 
the report of the Committee nominating Mr. John E. Par- 
sons for Vice-President, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Mr. Morris K. Jesup. 

The report was received and Mr. Parsons was unani- 
mously elected. 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien Elected a Trustee. 

In like manner, upon recommendation of the Committee 
on Nominations, the Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien was unani- 
mously elected to fill the vacancy in the Board of Trustees 
caused by Mr. Jesup's death. 

Nominated for Appointment to the Commission. 

The report of the Committee on Nominations further 
recommended the following appointments as members of 
the Commission : 

Bv the Governor : Mr. Cornelius F. Burns, President 
of the Trov Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. William 
Wortman. City Clerk of Hudson. 

By the Mayor: Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Presi- 
dent of the American Museum of Natural History, and 
Mr. Abraham Abraham, merchant, of Brooklyn. 

The recommendations were adopted. 

Appropriation Bill Introduced. 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman of the Committee 
on Law and Legislation, reported that as the result of the 
conference at Albany on January 28, 1908 (see page 406 
of Minutes of Executive Committee), and subsequent cor- 
respondence, the Hon. Alfred R. Page had, on Tuesdav, 
Februarv 25, 1908, introduced in the Senate the following 
bill (Introductory No. 475, Printed No. 543) : 



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An act making an appropriation for the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission, and also making a reappro- 
priation therefor. 

The People of the State of Nezv York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 

Section i. The sum of four hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars, is hereby appropriated, and the sum of twelve 
thousand five hundred dollars being the unexpended balance 
of the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars heretofore appro- 
priated by chapter three hundred and twenty-five of the 
laws of nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any moneys 
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission. Such money shall be 
payable for the purposes for which such commission was 
established pursuant to chapter three hundred and twenty- 
five of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, and one hun- 
dred and fifty thousand dollars thereof shall be payable for 
such purposes at and above Xewburgh on the Hudson river, 
and all such moneys shall be paid by the treasurer on the war- 
rant of the comptroller upon requisitions signed by the presi- 
dent and the secretary of the commission, accompanied by an 
estimate of the expenses for the payment of which money 
so drawn is to be applied. No indebtedness or obligation 
shall be incurred by such commission in excess of such 
appropriations and such sums as may be provided for said 
commission by the city of New York. The commission 
shall annually on or before October tenth make a verified 
report to the comptroller of the disbursements made by it 
during the year ending on the thirtieth day of September 
preceding from money appropriated by the state, and shall 
accompanv such report with the proper vouchers for such 
disbursements. Whenever the commission shall report to 
the legislature that the purposes for which the commission 
is created have been attained and all its debts and obligations 
have been paid, it shall return to the state treasurer the 
unexpended balance of money drawn in pursuance of this 
act. 



Bill to Increase N\iniher of Members and Trustees of 
Commission Introdnced. 

Mr. Stetson also reported that on the same date (Feb- 
ruary 25th) Senator Page had introduced a bill (Intro- 



February 26, 1908 417 

ductory No. 476, Printed No. 543) embodying the Trus- 
tees' recommendation concerning the increase in the num- 
ber of members and trustees of the Commission, as follows : 

An act to increase the number of members and trustees of 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 

The People of llie State of Nezu York, represented in 
Senate and Asseniblv, do enact as follozvs: 

Section i. The members and trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission, as designated by chapter 
three hundred and twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hun- 
dred and six, are increased in number by adding to and in- 
cluding as such members and trustees by virtue of their 
office the persons, severally and respectively, who from time 
to time and for the time being shall hold municipal office as 
follows in the following cities of the state, and in the fol- 
lowing villages upon the Hudson river: The mayors of the 
cities of Albany, Amsterdam,' Auburn, Binghamton, Buffalo, 
Cohoes, Corning, Cortland, Dunkirk, Elmira, Fulton, 
Geneva, Gloversville, Hornell, Hudson, Ithaca, Jamestown, 
Johnstown, Kingston, Little Falls, Lockport, Middletown, 
Mount Vernon, Newburgh, New Rochelle, New York, 
Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Ogdensburg, Olean, 
Oneida, Oswego, Plattsburg, Poughkeepsie, Rensselaer, 
Rochester, Rome, Schenectady, Syracuse, Tonawanda, 
Troy, Utica, Waterto.wn, Watervliet, and Yonkers, all of 
whom shall be members and trustees of the commission, 
and also the presidents of the villages of Athens, Castleton, 
Catskill. Cold Spring. Corinth, Cornwall, Coxsackie, 
Croton-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Fishkill, Fishkill Land- 
ing, Fort Edward, Glens Falls, Green Island, Hastings-on- 
Hudson, Haverstraw, Irvington, Matteawan, Mechanicville, 
North Tarrytown, Nyack, Ossining, Peekskill, Piermont, 
Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Sandy Hill, Saugerties, Schuyler- 
ville. South Glens Falls, South Nyack, Stillwater, Tarry- 
town, Tivoli. Upper Nyack, Victory Mills, Wappingers 
Falls, Waterford. and West Haverstraw, who shall be mem- 
bers of the commission. 

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

Foreign Correspondent Couiieillors AutJwrized. 
The President, to whom, with Mr. Francis Lynde Stet- 
son, Chairman of the Committee on Law and Legislation, 
and Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on 



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Nominations, was referred Mr. Tunis G. Bergen's sugges- 
tion concerning Foreign Correspondent Councillors, re- 
ported as follows : 

The President and the Committee appointed at the meet- 
ing of the Trustees on January 22, 1908, consisting of 
himself and Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Committee on 
Law and Legislation, and Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Nominations, to whom was referred tlie motion 
of Mr. Bergen concerning the appointment of eminent 
gentlemen abroad as Foreign Correspondent Councillors to 
the Commission, are of the opinion that the appointment of 
such foreign correspondents would materially promote the 
interest of the people of the Netherlands and of other 
foreign countries in the celebration and assist in furnishing 
historical data as well as relics and works of art of im- 
portance. The Committee think that the appointment of 
such correspondents should be a purely honorary one, and 
that as an expression of the Commission's gratitude for the 
interest such correspondents might exhibit and the assist- 
ance they might render in behalf of the Celebration, they 
should bear a complimentary title in recognition of their 
services. The Committee think that a proper title would be, 
" Foreign Correspondent Councillors to the Commission," 
and that such appointments should be made from time to 
time as may be deemed best by the Trustees, and that cer- 
titicates attesting such honorary appointments thereafter be 
executed in due form by the proper officers of the Commis- 
sion and sent to such appointees, expressing the gratitude of 
the Commission in the interest they have taken and the 
voluntary assistance they may be able to render in pro- 
moting the success of the Celebration, and also stating that 
the recipient of this honor, like the members of the Com- 
mission, under the law shall receive no compensation for 
his services. 

Upon motion of Mr. Wetmore the report was received 
and the recommendation adopted. 

Letter from Hon. John Bigeloiv Concerning the Purifica- 
tion of tJie Hudson River. 

The Secretary read the following letter from the Hon. 
John Bigelow : 



February 26, 1908 419 

21 GRAMERCY PARK. 

February 6, 1908. 
Henry W. Sackett, Esq., Secretary of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission : 

Dear Sir : I have to thank you for your favor of the 
31st ultimo, informing me that in response to the unanimous 
recommendation of the Trustees, His Honor, the Mayor of 
the City of New York, has appointed me a member of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. This celebration 
has from its inception been to me an occasion of peculiar 
personal interest. All the intensest and dearest joys of my 
youth are associated with the Hudson River. I was born 
on its western bank. While in my teens I was in the 
habit of swimming in its waters, sailing over it in skiiTs, in 
canoes, in dories, and on the breaking up of the ice in the 
spring paddling about on its floating cakes. In the winter 
I skated, sledded and drove on it. My first experience in 
the use of lire-arms was in shooting into the flocks of wild 
ducks and pigeons on their return by the thousands from 
their wintering in the south. I fished in it when its waters 
swarmed with white bass, dickups, eels, shad and herring. 
There was no season of the year that the river was not a 
joy to me. 

Unhappily my grandchildren have been permitted to 
share but few of those pleasures in consequence of the pol- 
lution of the waters by the drainage from the habitations 
of the riparian cities and villages of the Hudson and its 
tributaries. The fisheries with which the Rockefellers, 
within sight of my father's house, laid the foundations of 
their massive fortune are no longer profitable, and even the 
ducks and the pigeons that used to travel by the river have 
deserted their ancient resorts. But the time is at hand 
when from necessity the inhabitants of the banks of the 
Hudson will be compelled to utilize this drainage, and let 
us hope, for agricultural purposes instead of permitting it 
to poison the fish which used to yield a more abundant 
harvest of food for man than the land which the river 
drained did, and which would be glad to do it again if the 
water is ever made as pure again. 

If your Society could include the purification of the waters 
of the Hudson in your plan and scope it would be more 
enduring in a worldly sense, more profitable, and in all 
senses a far more useful recognition of the world's obli- 
gation to the men who first navigated the Hudson by sails 
and the man who first navigated it by steam, than any 



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other, however expensive or magnificent that taste and 
wealth can devise. 

It is even a question whether svich a purification of the 
waters of the Hudson would not contribute more speedily 
to the decoration of its banks, than it will ever be possible 
for the State or Nation to do without such purification. 

How can the banks of a river ever be made permanently 
attractive, with whatever expenditure of talent and taste 
and wealth, when even its inhabitants the fish, its native 
homesteaders, have already declared it uninhabitable and 
have practically abandoned it. 

The first financial speculation I ever made was in Hudson 
River shad. When about eight years of age I bought a 
hundred fresh from the nets of the fishermen for five dol- 
lars and retailed them at six cents a piece. I doubt whether 
in the last ten vears there have been as luany as a hundred 
shad seen so far up the Hudson as that speculation was 
made. 

Of course I would not have anything I have here said 
regarded in the light of a criticism upon the plans and 
scope of the Commissions charged with this celebration, 
which are all well enough, but shoukl not the river be 
cleaned before its bedroom is decorated? 

I have only ventured these suggestions because I do not 
feel equal to the labor of taking any part in the business of 
your Commission, still less attending the meetings which it 
would involve. I beg you therefore to express my sincere 
and grateful thanks to the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission and to His Honor the Mayor for 
the honor they have done me in recommending me as a 
fellow member. I feel that I am too old to assume any new 
cares or to bear with any old ones that are not obligatory. 
Yours very respectfully, 

John Btgelow. 

In view of the distinguished source of the letter and 
interesting character of its contents, it was voted that the 
letter be printed in full in the minutes ; and that the Secre- 
tary be requested to write to the author repeating the 
unanimous wish of the Trustees that he accept his appoint- 
ment as a member of the Commission. 

Preserving the Scenery of the Hudson. 
The Assistant Secretary read a communication dated 
New York, January 30, 1908, from Mr. Ogden D. Budd, 



February 26, 1908 421, 

President of the Consolidated Stock Exchange of New- 
York, to the President of this Commission, transmitting a 
copy of resolutions adopted by the Exchange January 23, 
1908, urging the preservation of the scenery of the High- 
lands of the Hudson; 

Also the reply of the President, dated February ist, ask- 
ing Mr. Budd to submit the draft of such law as he thought 
"the Legislature should pass, and a careful, detailed esti- 
mate of the cost of the action proposed; 

Also, copy of a letter dated February 17, from Hon. 
Frederick W. Seward, Chairman of the Plan and Scope 
Committee, transmitting copy of article by Dr. Edward L. 
Partridge in the Outlook of November 9, 1907, explaining 
the plan for preserving the Highlands scenery by national 
legislation as outlined under the auspices of the American 
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society; 

Also a letter dated January 22, 1908, from Mr. W. H. 
Duncan, Jr., of Brooklyn, to Mr. Seward, on the same 
subject. 

All were ordered on file. 

Naming Dyckiiian Street Viaduct after Fulton. 

Mr. Reginald P. Bolton, a member of the Commission, 
by invitation explained the suggestion communicated by 
him by letter to the President concerning the naming of 
the proposed Dyckman street viaduct, on Manhattan Island. 
He stated that the plans for the extension of Riverside 
drive north of Dyckman street as prepared by the city 
engineers contemplated carrying the drive over the Dyck- 
man street valley by a stone-arched viaduct of noble pro- 
portions, as indicated in the large picture which he ex- 
hibited. The northern end of the viaduct would rest on 
the southern end of In wood Hill. Three-quarters of a 
mile northward, at the northern end of the hill, would 
begin the proposed Hudson Memorial Bridge across Spuy- 
ten Duyvil creek. Between the Hudson Memorial Bridge 
on the north and the Dyckman street viaduct on the south 
would lie the proposed Inwood Hill Park, advocated by 



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the Commission. The Dyckman street viaduct was to be 
a structure of such magnitude and importance, that in con- 
versation with the city engineers and others it had been 
suggested that it be named in honor of Robert Fulton, and 
thus form an appropriate complement to the bridge named 
after Henry Hudson at the opposite end of the hill. 

The Secretary stated that Mr. Bolton's letter conveying 
this suggestion had been referred to Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Chairman of the Inwood Hill Committee, who wrote under 
date of February 25th : 

" Gen. Woodford sends to me the enclosed papers. There 
is no time to call the Inwood Hill Committee together. My 
individual preference would be to apply the joint name 
" Hudson-Fulton " to everything in the locality of Inwood 
Hill. We have become accustomed to the juxtaposition. 
It seems to me that it has double significance. Hudson 
alone might be regarded as trite, but Hudson-Fulton is 
distinctive." 

After some further remarks, suggesting the practical 
usefulness of bestowing distinctly dififerent titles on the 
Dyckman street structure and the Spuyten Duyvil creek 
structure, it was voted, upon motion of Mr. Stetson, that 
the suggestion be referred to the Inwood Hill Committee 
for consideration and report, and that the members of the 
Commission be requested to communicate to Mr. John E. 
Parsons, Chairman, at No. 52 William street, their views 
on the subject. 

Inwood Hill Park. 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Parsons stating 
that after conference with Mr. George W. Perkins he had 
renewed his efiforts to secure action by the city in regard 
to Inwood Hill Park. He stated that since the first inter- 
view with the Mayor the prices asked for the land had 
practically doubjed. Mr. Parsons found comfort, however, 
in the thought that from this time on, delay might be in 
the interest of a reduction rather than of an increase in 
price. 

Report of progress received. 



February 26, 1908 423 

Date of Celebration Changed. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman of the Committee 
on Official Literary Exercises, reported that there had been 
a meeting of his committee earlier in the day, and that in 
their judgment it was advisable to engagfe the place of 
meeting at once. 

In the course of the discussion, reported more fully 
hereafter, the President recalled the suggestion which he 
had received informally from several members of the Com- 
mission to the effect that the probabilities were greater for 
good weather in the week following than in the one 
selected for the celebration in 1909. It seemed advisable, 
therefore, that if any change in the date were to be made 
it should be made now, as a guide to the selection of dates 
for the details of the celebration. 

In the course of the brief discussion which ensued, it 
appeared that the postponement of the celebration for a 
week, so as to begin on Saturday, September 25, 1909, 
would not sacrifice its historical propriety, inasmuch as 
Hudson did not depart from the harbor on his homeward 
voyage until October 4, 1609. 

It was therefore moved by General Wilson that the date 
of the beginning of the celebration be Saturday, September 
25, 1909, instead of Saturday, September i8th. Carried. 

Engagement of Metropolitan Opera House Authorised. 

Continuing his report, General Wilson stated that his 
committee desired authority to engage the place of meeting 
for the Official Literary Exercises. The Madison Square 
Garden would seat 6,000 persons and cost $1,000. The 
Metropolitan Opera House would seat 3,500 and probably 
cost $800. The committee was disposed to favor the 
Garden. Its acoustic properties were such that speakers 
like Hon. Joseph H. Choate and Gen. Horace Porter had 
made themselves heard by a considerable part of the audi- 
ence. Those who could not hear would esteem it a privi- 
lege to be present and. see the distinguished guests, and 



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they could get the reports of the speeches from the daily 
papers. 

Mr. Phillips said that he had had a considerable experi- 
ence as to the relative advantages of the Garden and the 
Opera House, and he was of the opinion that it was better 
to have the Opera House in which all could hear, than 
the Garden in which only half could hear and the other 
half would be discontented. 

Mr. Wetmore said that he had originally been of Mr. 
Phillips' opinion but had been won over to General Wil- 
son's view by the fa,ct that there would probably be three 
Presidents or ex-Presidents of the United States on the 
platform ; that there would be a tremendous demand to get 
in ; that even admission would be regarded a great privi- 
lege, notwithstanding the knowledge that only a part could 
hear the speakers ; that the Garden would accommodate 
the largest audience; that if they took some other hall they 
would be asked why they did not get the biggest audi- 
torium in town ; and that if they engaged the Garden they 
would be taking the democratic position. 

Mr. Sackett said there was probably no hall in which 
5,000 persons could distinctly hear the speakers unless it 
were the Prince Albert Memorial Hall in London. He 
thought that a disadvantage of taking the Madison Square 
Garden, in addition to its acoustic deficiencies, was the fact 
that the public would regard its capacity as unlimited and 
that it would be more difficult to resist the pressure for 
admission which could not be accommodated than if the 
Metropolitan Opera House, or some other hall whose capa- 
city was understood to be limited, were engaged. 

The President said he believed that the Metropolitan 
Opera House would accommodate 800 or 1,000 persons on 
the stage, thus making its total capacity about 4,300. 

Mr. Proctor asked why, in view of the importance of 
this meeting, it would not be advisable to engage two halls 
and have the President go to both. He recalled an occa- 
sion when President Grant visited the city of the speaker's 
home, Utica, and attended meetings in three different 
halls. 



February 26, 1908 425 

Mr. Hall said that the plan of celebration submitted by 
the Plan and Scope Committee contemplated the possibility 
of meetings in the five boroughs the same evening. If it 
were not practicable to have meetings in all five boroughs, 
it might be desirable to hold the additional meeting sug- 
gested by Mr. Proctor in Brooklyn. 

Mr. Bergen thought it would not be judicious to have 
two halls in Manhattan and none in Brooklyn. He sug- 
gested the new Academy of Music of Brooklyn as a suit- 
able place in that borough. 

Mr. Sackett moved that the Committee on Official Liter- 
ary Exercises be authorized to engage the Metropolitan 
Opera House for Tuesday evening, September 28, 1909. 
Carried. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the Committee be authorized 
also to engage the Brooklyn Academy of Music, but not 
necessarily for the same evening. 

After brief discussion, Mr. Stetson's motion was with- 
drawn and the subject of engaging a meeting place in 
Brooklyn referred back to the Committee to be considered 
in connection with the other boroughs. 

Coininittcc on Official Banquet. 

Mr. Sackett moved that the President be authorized to 
appoint a committee of such number as he deemed best to 
consider and report upon arrangements for the official 
banquet. Carried. 

The President subsequently appointed as such commit- 
tee : Col. William Jay, chairman ; Hon. Wm. Berri, Gen. 
Howard Carroll, Mr. Henry W. Sackett and Mr. Cornelius 
Vanderbilt. 

Souvenir Programme and History. 

The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Fred- 
erick R. Cruikshank, a member of the Commission, sug- 
gesting that the general or souvenir programme of the 
celebration embody " not only details in connection with 
Hudson and Fulton, but also take in prominent landmarks 



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and the quaint and historic features at the various towns 
along the river — in other words, a short but popular 
history of the river." 

Referred to the Committee on Memorials. 

Lease of Headquarters Renezved. 

Mr. Phillips, who, as Deputy Comptroller of the city is 
Secretary of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, filed 
with the Secretary a certified copy of the following resolu- 
tion adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund 
February 26, 1908 : 

Resolved, That the Comptroller be and is hereby author- 
ized and directed to execute a renewal of the lease to the 
City, of Room 805, in the Tribune Building, No. 154 
Nassau street. Borough of Manhattan, for the use of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, for a period of 
one year from May i, 1908, at an annual rental of one 
thousand dollars ($1,000), payable monthly; lessor the 
Tribune Association ; the Commissioners of the Sinking 
Fund deeming the said rent fair and reasonable, and that it 
would be for the interests of the City that such lease be 
made. 

The President expressed the Commission's appreciation 
of Mr. Phillips' kind offices in the matter. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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428 



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Abraham Abraham. 
Herbert Adams. 
John G. Agar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annjn Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Chas. H. Armatage. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor William J. 

Baxter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. John Bigelow. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
Herbert L. Bridgman. 
George V. Broiver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
jfohn Claflin. 
Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

lan. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon Robt. W. de Forest. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 



James de la Montayne. 

E. S. A. deLima. 

Hon. C. M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

Gtorge G. DeW'itt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thos. A. Emmet. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. 
Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Earr Ferree. 

Stuyvcsant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Wi-nchester Fitch. 

James J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Chas. .9. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. R Good- 
rich. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Lion. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Ed-cv. Hagnman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. A. Hearn. 

James A. Hearn. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

//,'«. Warred His^Uy. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 

James P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Homan. 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Hoy.t. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 

Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D. Huntting. 

August h . Jaccaci. 

Col. William Jay. 

Jacob Katz. 

[Names of Trustees in italics.] 



Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Ketcham. 

Gen. Horatio C. King. 

Albert E. Kleinert. 

Dr. George F. Kuns. 

John LaFarge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

Frederick S. Lamb. 

ITomer Lee. 

Charles W. heRer. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss. 

Dr. Henry M. I.eipsiger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

Herman Livingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seih Low. 

R. Fulton I^udlow. 

Hon. Arthur MacArthur. 

William A. Marble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook. 

Col. John J. McCook. 

Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Coin. Jacob ir. Millrr. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Frayxk D. Millet. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Picrpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm. C. Muschenheim. 
Natlian Newman. 
C. H. Niehaus. 
Ludwig Nissen. 
Hon. Lewis Nixon. 
Chas. R. Norman. 
Hfn. Aforo-an f. O'Brien. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
Prof. Henry F. Osborn. 
Wm. Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Hon. Geo. JV. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 



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George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. /•'. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry IV. Sackctt. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 

Chas. A. Schermerhorn. 

Jacob H. Schiff. 

Prest. Jacob G. Schur- 
ntan. 

Gusfav H. Schwab. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Isaac N. Se/is^nian. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. ?enner. 

Hon. Fred^k. II'. Se^uard. 

Hon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 



Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

/. Edward Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

E. V. Skinner. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

William .Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Wm. L. Stone. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

Stevenson Taylor. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Spencer Trask. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lt.-Co)ii. Aaron Vander- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

[Names of Trustees in ilalics.'] 



Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
■ Dyke. 

Warner Van Norden. 
Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W. Vrooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Wliitnev. 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 
Hon. John S. Wise. 
Charles P.. Wolffram. 
Hon. Joseph S. Wood. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 

ruff. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 



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President 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder. Presiding Vice-President. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter. 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

A.rt and Historical HxKibits Committee 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 23 Wall Street, New York. 
Sub-Committee i Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Chairman, 
on "I Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Art Exhibits. ( Mr. Edward Robinson. 
Sub-Committee ( Dr. George F. Kunz, Chairman, 
on Historical < Mr. S. V. Hoffman, 
Exhibits. ( Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

Auditing Committee 

Hon. N. Taylor, Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

Banqxiet Committee 

Col. William Jay, Chairman, 48 Wall Street, New York. 
Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Civic Parade Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. B. Altman, Hon. Lewis Nixon, 

Mr. August Belmont, Mr. Eben E. Olcott. 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. William Church Osborh, 

Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 

Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. Howland Pell, 

Hon. George C. Clausen, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Mr. George Ehret, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Mr. Frank S. Gardner, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 

Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. William Sohmer. 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. James Speyer, 

Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Louis Stern, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. J. Leonard Varick, 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 



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Executive Committee 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan,U.S.A., Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Mr. William J Curtis, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Col. William Jay, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. John La Farge, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

General Commemorative Exercises Committee 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Hon. David A. Boody, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Col. Wm. Gary Sanger, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Invitations Committee 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Chairman, Princeton, N. J. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, ^ Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

The Secretary, ex officio. 

In-wood ParK Committee 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William St., New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

La-w and Legislation Committee 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Memorials Committee 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 85 Liberty Street, New York. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 



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Military Parade Committee 



Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Naval Parade Committee 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 
59 West 45th Street, New York. 
Const'r Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob_ W. Miller, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, 
Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
Mr. William J. McKay, 
Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 
U. S. N., 

Nominations Committee 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Col. John W. Vrooman, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman, 157 W. 79th St., New York. 
Mr. R. P. Bolton, Mr. Wm. L. Stone, 

Mr. Edward DeWitt, Mr. Albert Ulmann. 

Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 



Mr. Chas. R. Norman, 
Mr. Louis T. Romaine, 
Hon. JohnH. Starin, 
Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 



Plan and Scope Committee 



Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Hon. William Berri, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan, U.S.N., 
Mr. Robert W. De Forest, 
Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, U.S.A., 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Hon. Seth Low, 
Hon. Wm. McCarroll, 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 



Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
The President, cx-ofRcio. 



Reception Committee 



Hon. Seth Low, Chairman, 30 
Col. John Jacob Astor, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Hon. Frank S. Black, 
Hon. A. J. Boulton, 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 
Mr. John Claflin, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 
Hon. Grover Cleveland, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.N., 
Most Rev. John M. Farley, 
Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D, Grant, 

U. S. A., 
Mr. E. H. Hall, 



East 64th Street, New York. 
Hon. David B. Hill, 
Hon. Henry E. Howland, 
Col. William Jay, 
Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 
Col. John J. McCook, 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 
Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 

U. S. N., 
Hon. John G. Milburn, 
Mr. Ogden Mills, 
Mr. J. P. Morgan, 
Mr. Fordham Morris, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, 



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Reception Committee {continued) 

Gen. Horace Porter, Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 

Rt. Rev. H. C. Potter, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

,Mr. Thos. R. Proctor, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Mr. Wm. Rockefeller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Pres. J. G. Schurman, Hon. William R. Willcox, 

Mr. I. N. Seligman, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 

"VerplancK's Point ParK Committee 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

"Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William St., New York. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

March 25, 1908. 

The twenty-fourth meeting of the Trustees of the Hud- 
son-Fuhon Celebration Commission was held at headquar- 
ters in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau Street, New 
York City, Wednesday, March 25, 1908, at 3 p. m. 

The President, i\Ir. Stewart L. Woodford, invited Mr. 
Herman Ridder to the chair. 

Roll Call. 
Present : Mr. Herman Ridder, presiding ; and Mr. Tunis 
G. Bergen, Hon. William Berri, Rear Admiral Joseph B. 
Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Edward Haga- 
man Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Mr. William 
J. McKay, Rear Admiral George W. Melville, U. S. N., 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Henry 
W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Francis Lynde 
Stetson, Col. John W. Vrooman, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
rmd Mr. Stewart L. Woodford. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. Joseph H. 
Choate, Mr. R. Fulton Cutting, Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Frank 
D. Millet, Mr. Wm. C. Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Pres. Jacob G. Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Mr. 
Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Spencer Trask, Dr. Samuel B. 
Ward, Mr. Edmund Wetmore, and Hon. Andrew D. White, 
and they were excused. 

Approval of Minutes. 
The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
snd sent to all the members, were approved as printed. 



436 Minutes of Trustees 

Treasurer's Report. 

The report of the Treasurer was read as follows: 

March 25, 1908. 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, 

Gentlemen : I have the honor to report that checks for 
the accounts approved at the last meeting have not yet been 
delivered, and that the balance of the State Fund remains 
the same as stated Feb. 26, 1908, namely, $6,964.96. 

In the Subscription Fund there is a balance of $9.18, 
which is insufficient to pay the sum of $25.34 remaining due 
to the Polhemus Printing Co., on account of printing bills 
disallowed by the Comptroller, referred to on pp. 313 and 
314 of the Minutes. 

Yours respectfully, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 
Received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee : 

E. H. Hall : Disbursements $16 30 

Salary for March 250 00 

$266 30 

De-Fi Manufacturing Co.. box of carbon paper. 3 50 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 4 75 

Henry Romeike, Inc., clippings in February. ... i 11 

J B. Lyon Co., 1,000 letterheads 2 88 

J. B. Lyon Co., 100 lists of committees i 75 

J. B. Lyon Co., 500 copies minutes of Feb- 
ruary 29 76 

$310 05 



Appointments by Mayor McClellan. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of Mayor 
McClellan, dated ]\Iarch 2, 1908, communicating the ap- 
pointment of Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn and Mr. Abra- 
ham Abraham as members of the Commission pursuant to 
the recommendation of the Board of Trustees, and a letter 
from the Mayor's Secretary dated March 24 communicating 
Ihe appointment of Hon. Joseph S. Wood, counsellor-at- 



March 25, 1908 437 

law, of No. 25 South Fourth Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y., 
as a member of the Commission. 

The letters were ordered on file and the Secretary was 
directed to add the names of the appointees to the roll of 
the Commission. 

Acceptance of Hon. John Bigelozv. 
The Secretary reported that pursuant to the action of the 
last meeting (page 420) he had written to the Hon. John 
Bigelow communicating the earnest desire of the Trustees 
that Mr. Bigelow accept his appointment as a member of 
the Commission, and had received the following reply: 

21, GRAMERCY PARK, 

February 29, 1908. 
Henry W. Sackett, Esq. : 

Dear Sir : I cannot but feel flattered by the conditions 
upon which your Commission were willing to add me to their 
r.umber. Upon those conditions of course I have no ob- 
jections, though the advice I gave you in my letter was 
worth to your enterprise a thousand times more than my 
name. 

Yours truly, 

John Bigelow. 

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn's Acceptance. 
The Secretary stated that upon notifying Prof. Henry 
Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of 
Natural History, of his appointment by the Mayor as a 
member of the Commission, and by the President of the 
Commission as a member of the Art and Historical Ex- 
hibits Committee, Prof. Osborn had written for further in- 
formation. This having been given, Prof. Osborn accepted 
his appointment in the following letter : 

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 

New York, March 19, 1908. 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Building, City. 

Dear Sir : In reply to your letter of March 12, giving 
me the history of the Huflson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 



438 Minutes of Trustees 

sion and referring to the desire of President Woodford 
that I should fill the position vacated by the sad death of 
Mr. Jesup, I have decided to accept the appointment as a 
member of the Commission. 

It has occurred to the authorities of the Museum that the 
Dutch residents of the City of New York might take an 
interest in the formation of a special archaeological exhibit 
which would have some appropriate significance for this 
important historical occasion. 

Thanking you for your kind letter, believe me, 
Very truly yours, 

Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

President. 

Fulton Water Gate Committee Discontinued. 
The President, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, laid before 
the Trustees correspondence between himself and Mr. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, ]\Ir. R. Fulton Cutting and Mr. 
R, Fulton Ludlow, members of the Fulton Water Gate 
Committee of this Commission and also members of the 
Robert Fulton jMonument Association, the substance of 
which is contained in the following two letters : 

THE ROBERT FULTON MONUMENT ASSOCIATION 

New York, March 2, 1908. 
Stewart L. Woodford, Esq., 

18 Wall Street, New York City. 

Dear Sir: Your favor of the 15th inst., addressed to Mr. 
R. Fulton Catting has been handed me by Mr. Cutting, 
with the request that I answer same and outline to you just 
how our Association feels as to our participating with the 
Hudson-Fulton Association in their celebration in 1909. and 
more particularly in relation to the ceremony of laying the 
cornerstone of the water gate, which we propose to build 
on the Hudson River at One Hundred and Fifteenth Street, 
which ceremony, we understand, is outlined in your pub- 
lished programme of the exercises on that occasion. 

The work we have undertaken to carry out, that is, the 
building of the retaining walk the filling in of the water 
front from One Hundred and Fourteenth to One Hundred 
and Sixteenth Street, the building of the water gate with 
its museum and reception hall, and the tomb and monument 
to Robert Fulton, is so large an undertaking that we have 



March 25, 1908 439 

had to move very slowly and with mature consideration. We 
now have our organization in good working order, have 
had a bill passed through the State Legislature and signed 
by both the Governor and the Mayor, giving us the author- 
ity to use the property mentioned upon consultation with 
the proper city authorities, and have a committee consulting 
with these officials as to their requirements. 

After they report, it will be necessary for us to draw 
specifications, distribute same to architects, artists and 
sculptors, so that plans may be submitted, and then select 
the plan itself. All this will have to be accomplished before 
we can even consider when it might be possible for us to 
lay the cornerstone of the water gate, and in fact a large 
amount of the work on the river front would have to be 
done before the cornerstone could be laid. You will there- 
fore readily see that it is impossible for us at the present 
lime to fix upon any date when the laying of the corner- 
stone or other important function in connection with the 
work that we have in hand could be definitely accomplished, 
and it would therefore seem best, due to the uncertainty 
existing, that it be omitted from your programme. 

It is perhaps a little unfortunate that these two Associa- 
tions, both having in view the honoring of the memory of 
Robert Fulton, but in a different manner, should have 
titles so near alike as to make it confusing to the public 
who are not familiar enough with the general conditions to 
readily distinguish between the two organizations and their 
purposes. 

As I understand it, the purpose of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission is or was to build a bridge to be 
called the Hudson Bridge in honor of Hendrick Hudson, 
and to celebrate on one or more days by addresses, parades 
of various kinds and other functions, and thus do honor 
to the memory of both Hudson and Fulton, while it is 
the purpose of the Robert Fulton Monument Association 
to build a water gate and tomb where the remains of Fulton 
can be permanently interred, all of which will be a per- 
manent monument to his memory. As you know, it will 
be necessary for us to eventually apply to the public for 
funds necessary to erect same. We therefore feel that as 
the purposes of the two Associations are so dififerent in 
character, that it would be as well to keep them distinct, 
so that there may be no confusion on the part of the public 
at large in making their contributions. 

I might add that our Association celebrated most suc- 
cessfully at Jamestown on September 23rd the One Hun- 



440 Minutes of Trustees 

clredth Anniversary of the sailing of the " Clermont " by a 
naval parade, addresses in the Auditorium, followed by a 
banquet in the New York State Building in the evening, 
which was attended by the members of the Fulton family 
and many prominent people from New York and else- 
^vhere. 

You will readily appreciate that in a public matter of this 
kind where no personal interests are involved, that it is both 
the intention and desire of all to act in the most perfect 
harmony and accord, but as you request in your letter a 
candid expression as to the relation of the two Associa- 
tions, we after careful consideration, feel that because of 
the dififerent methods proposed of honoring the memory of 
Robert Fulton and the uncertainty as to just when we can 
carry out what we have undertaken to accomplish, that it 
would be better for the two Associations to act independ- 
ently of each other. 

\'ery truly yours, 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

President. 



THE HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION COMMISSION, 

New York, March 9, 1908. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Esq., 

President, The Robert Fulton Monument Association, 

3 Park Row, New York City. 

My Dear Sir : Getting back from Washington I find your 
good letter of March 2nd, instant. In your closing paragraph 
you state that you feel that because of the different methods 
proposed of honoring the memory of Robert Fulton and 
the uncertainty as to just when you can carry out what you 
have undertaken to accomplish, it would be better for the 
two associations to act independently of each other. 

With sincerest wishes for the largest possible success in 
vhe great work wdiich you are so generously and wisely 
undertaking, I will present your letter of March 2nd to 
the Hudson-Fulton Commission at the next meeting of our 
Trustees, which will occur this month, and ask the authority 
of our Board to discontinue the Committee in relation to 
the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the Water Gate. 

Whenever your Association or yourself desire any pos- 
sible co-operation by our Commission with you in your 
work it will be our privilege and pleasure to attempt such 
service. Meanwhile, as some ten or twelve of the members 



March 25, 1908 441 

of your Executive and General Committees are members of 
our Commission and several of your number are among 
cur Trustees and officers, we hope that all of you will do 
what you can to make our official celebration in the Autumn 
of 1909 a great success, worthy of the memories of Henry 
Hudson and Robert Fulton and also worthy of our great 
City of New York. 

Very truly yours, 

Stewart L. Woodford, 

President. 

In view of the foregoing correspondence the President 
moved that he be given permission to discontinue the Fulton 
Water Gate Committee. Carried. 

Preserving Hudson River Scenery. 

At the request of Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman 
of the Plan and Scope Committee, the Secretary read com- 
munications as follows : 

A letter dated March 4, 1908, from Mr. C. R. Norman, 
President of the Maritime Association of the Port of New 
York, advocating an early appeal to the Governor and the 
Legislature for the enactment of legislation creating a 
Commission, with power to prevent the destruction of the 
scenery of the Highlands of the Hudson River ; 

A letter dated Alarch 16, 1908, signed by Mr. Wm. 
Harris Douglas, President of the New York Produce 
Exchange, and Mr. C. R. Norman, President of the Mari- 
time Association of the Port of New York, enclosing copy 
of a proposed "Act to provide for the selection, location, 
appropriation and management of certain lands along the 
Hudson river for a state reservation and thereby to pre- 
serve the natural scenery of the Hudson River as a memo- 
rial of Henry Hudson ;" and 

A letter dated March 19, 1908, from Mr. Ogden D. Budd, 
President of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, being a copy 
of the letter last above mentioned. 

The bill accompanying the last two letters is modeled on 
the lines of the Palisades Interstate Park bill. It provides 
for the appomtment by the Governor of a Commission of 



442 Minutes of Trustees 

five members, to be known as the " Commissioners of 
Henry Hudson Memorial Commission," * who shall serve 
without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for expenses. 
They are empowered to " Select and locate such lands lying 
on the easterly face of the Highlands along the westerly 
shore of the Hudson River between the north line of the 
State Reservation at Stony Point and the north base of 
Storm King Mountain, and such lands lying on the westerly 
face of the Highlands along the easterly shore of the 
Hudson river between the north line of the State Camp 
Grounds near Peekskill and the north base of Breakneck 
Ridge, as may in their opinion be proper ^nd necessary 
for the purpose of establishing a State Reservation and 
thereby preserving the scenic beauty of the Hudson River." 
The bill further empowers the Commission to take such 
lands " in fee or otherwise, by purchase, gift, devise or 
eminent domain . . . and any rights, interests and 
easements therein, and to receive by gift, contribution or 
bequest, moneys to be used in acquiring or improving the 
i,aid lands." The bill prescribes the procedure for con- 
demnation and appropriates $25,000. 

Mr. Seward stated that he had received several communi- 
cations on this subject, and also the draft of a bill from 
another source proposing federal protection. He moved 
that all of these be referred to the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee and the Committee on Law and Legislation. 

Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the latter committee, demurred 
to the reference of the subject to his committee as the 
Committee had already expressed its views upon the 
matter. 

Mr. Seward therefore modified his motion so as to refer 
the subject to the Plan and Scope Committee and it was 
carried. 

Life Saving Corps Applies to Partieipafe. 
A communication dated Feb. 3, 1908, from George A. 
Thormann, General Superintendent of the LTnited States 



* So worded in original. 



March 25, 1908 443 

Volunteer Life Saving Corps, was read, applying for a 
position in the parade in 1909 with 250 men. 
Referred to the Civic Parade Committee. 

Trustees Renominated for Annual Election. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman, presented report of the Committee 
on Nominations renominating the present Board of Trus- 
tees for election at the annual meeting of the Commission 
to be held on Wednesday, May 6, 1908, at 3 p. m., and he 
moved that the report be approved and that the Secretary 
be instructed to send a list of the nominations to every mem- 
ber of the Commission with the notice of the meeting. 
Carried. 

Report on Appropriation Bill. 

Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Committee on Law and 
Legislation, reported that Mr. Ridder and he had gone to 
Albany on Wednesday, the i8th of March, and interviewed 
Governor Hughes and Senator Armstrong, Chairman of the 
Finance Committee, on the subject of the appropriation for 
the celebration. Governor Hughes expressed great interest 
in the proposed celebration ; but with respect to the status 
of the bill in the Legislature, ]\Ir. Stetson did not feel war- 
ranted in reporting more than " progress." 

Co-operation of New York Public Library. 
Dr. George F. Kunz, chairman of the sub-committee on 
Historical Exhibits of the Committee on Art and Historical 
Exhibits, reported that on March 16, 1908, Dr. John S. 
Billings, Director of the New York Public Library, had 
informed him that he would co-operate with the Hudson- 
Fulton Commission in making a special commemorative 
exhibition to consist, first, of the maps, charts, and por- 
traits relating to the discovery of America up to the time of 
and including the period of Henry Hudson ; second, of a 
collection of manuscripts and histories of Henry Hudson. 
early views of New York City and other material relating 
to this interesting period, and third, of plans, illustrations, 
views and works relating to the period of Robert Fulton 
and the application of steam to propelling boats and ships. 



444 Minutes of Trustees 

This collection might he supplemented by loans of material 
not in the possession of the Library, and a descriptive cata- 
logue of all these objects would be published for distribution. 
Dr. Kunz said that Dr. Billings had already made a careful 
study of the Robert Fulton period, having made extensive 
preparations for the anniversary which did not take place 
last year. 

Co-operation zvith Nuiiiisiiiafic Society in Striking Medal 

Proposed. 
Dr. Kunz further reported that on April 6, 1908, the 
American Numismatic Society would celebrate its fiftieth 
anniversary. This society, he said, has from time to time 
authorized well-known medalists to prepare medals com- 
memorating both historical events and famous people. 
Notable among the former were the medals celebrating the 
dedication of the Grant Monument and the consolidation 
of Greater New York ; and among the latter, were the 
Columbus, Vespucci, Dr. Anthon, Daniel Parish, Jr., John 
Paul Jones, and Sir Francis Drake medals. The members 
of the Society have made extensive researches and are about 
to prepare to issue, in 1909, a medal in memory of Henry 
Hudson. "As the members of this Society are students of 
numismatic and medallic art as well as of history," said 
Dr. Kunz, " I would recommend and move that the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission co-operate with the 
American Numismatic Society and adopt this medal as their 
own, to be issued jointly by this Commission and the 
American Numismatic Society. This will insure us a medal 
that will be both historically correct and, at the same time, 
will find its way to the cabinets of a greater number of 
societies and archives, than would be the case if it were 
issued by this Commission alone. I would further move 
that if such a medal be struck it should also be commemora- 
tive of the work of this Commission, and that one specimen 
be struck for each member of this Commission, the respec- 
tive name being stamped on it bv means of an inset that 
can be adjusted to the die of one side of the medal." 



I 



March 25, 1908 445 

Gen. Wilson moved as a substitute that the design for 
the proposed medal be submitted to this Commission for 
approval before the cutting of the dies, with the under- 
standing that if it prove satisfactory the Commission will 
consider the proposition to co-operate in its issue and con- 
tribute to the expense. 

Dr. Kunz accepted the substitute and the motion was 
carried. 

Plan of the Broal^Iyii Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
Dr. Kunz reported that as the result of an interview with 
Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman of the Brooklyn Standard Union, 
a member of this Commission, a provisional plan of co- 
operation had been evolved by Mr. Bridgman and the 
Brooklyn Institute officials if the Commission should invite 
the Institute to participate in the celebration. The plan 
contemplated : 

I. Historical : Development of Long Island in the Indian, 
Colonial and Fulton (1807-1907) periods, as illustrated by 
topographic maps and models, relics, lithographs, prints, 
deeds, maps, etc. 

II. Ethnological : Introducing, perhaps, reproduction of 
the early Indian villages and possibly living descendants of 
the Shinnecoks of the Eastern end of the Island. 

III. Evolution of Steam Navigation with models of 
Fulton's " Clermont " and perhaps of his Demologos and 
of the " Hendrik Hudson " of 1906, with portraits, relics, 
books, maps, etc. 

IV. Essays for prizes by the public school children of the 
Island on appropriate, historical and geographical topics, 
with privilege of publication. 

Dr. Kunz moved that the matter of extending a formal 
invitation to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to 
participate in the celebration next year be referred to the 
Plan and Scope Committee. Carried. 

Publication of Catalogues Proposed. 
Dr. Kunz moved that the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission indorse the publication of catalogues for each 
of the Museums or Libraries participating in the exhibition 
to be held in connection with the celebration of 1909. 



446 Minutes of Trustees 

The plan, as outlined by Dr. Ktinz, was that these 
Museums and the Museum Committee should prepare 
a suitable and simple guide containing some illustrations, 
which ought to sell for 10 cents a copy; that there be issued 
about nine or ten catalogues, the volumes selling for $1.00; 
that there be a first edition of five hundred, or not more 
than one thousand for each, at a maximum cost of not more 
than lf>i,ooo for each five thousand ; twenty-five hundred of 
each to be sent to the press and others to insure the success 
of the exhibits ; and the remainder to be sold. It was sug- 
gested that the following institutions take part in the gen- 
eral exhibition : , 

The American Museum of Natural History, the Brook- 
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the American Numis- 
matic Society, the Hispanic Society, the American Geo- 
graphical Society, the New York Historical Society, the 
New York Public Library, the Genealogical Society, and 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, it was thought, would probably issue two 
catalogues and would require a double fund of $2,000. 

The subject was referred to the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee. 

Various Reports of Progress. 

Mr. Ridder, Chairman of the Civic Parade Committee ; 
Mr. Sackett, for President Schurman, Chairman of the 
General Commemorative Exercises Committee; Mr. Par- 
sons, Chairman of the Inwood Hill Park Committee; Mr. 
Bergen, Chairman of the Memorials Committee ; and 
Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Naval Parade Com- 
mittee, reported progress. 

Auditoriums for Otficial Literary Exercises. 
Gen. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Official 
Literary Exercises gave the following information concern- 
ing the seating capacity and cost of auditoriums: 

Seats. Cost. 

Madison Square" Garden 6,000 $1,000 

Metropoliton Opera House 3-500 800 

Carnegie Hall 3,000 400 

Brooklyn Academy 2,700 300 



March 25, 1908 447 

Gen. Wilson's committee was of the opinion that it would 
be better to engage the Metropolitan Opera House and 
Carnegie Hall, than to take the Madison Square Garden, 
or to take the Opera House and the Brooklyn Academy. 
The Opera House and Carnegie Hall were near together, 
which would facilitate the interchange of speakers, and the 
new transit facilities had brought Brooklyn Borough so 
near to Manhattan that the c|uestion of distance was negli- 
gible in view of the compensating advantages of the pro- 
posed plan. 

Mr. Phillips moved that the report be received and 
adopted and that the Committee be empowered to engage 
the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall. Car- 
ried, 

Cham plain Tcr-Centenary. 
The Assistant Secretary reported for the information of 
the Trustees that on March 19, 1908, a bill had been intro- 
duced in the Legislature " to provide for the celebration of 
the ter-centenary of the discovery of Lake Champlain, the 
appointment of a commission, prescribing its powers and 
duties and making an appropriation therefor." The bill 
provides for a commission of five members and appro- 
priated $100,000. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of April 22, 1908 



450 



il^mbfrfi of tl|? (UummtsBton 



Abraham Abraham. 
Herbert Adams. 
John G. Agiir. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. Jolm E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Chas. H. Armatage. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor William J. 

Baxter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. John Rigelow. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Bnutton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
Herbert L. Bridgman. 
George V. Brewer. 
Dr. E. Parnily Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
.S'lV Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear A dm. J. B. Cogh- 

Ian. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. Tohn H. Coyne. 
Paul b. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon Robt. W. de Forest. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 



James de la Montayne. 

E. S. A. deLima. 

Hon. C. M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. DeH'itt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Fames. 

(ieorge Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thos. A. Emmet. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. 
Farley. 

Hon. J. Sioat Fassett. 

P.arr Ferree. 

Stuyvcsant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Wi-nchester Fitch. 

James J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Chas. .S". Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 

Dr. E. R. L. Gould. 

Gi-orgeJ. Gould. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edzu. Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. A. Hearn. 

James A. Hearn. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

//on. Warren Higley. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 

Tames P. Holland. 

"Willis Holly. 

William Homan. 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Hoyt. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 

Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henrv Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D, Huntting. 

August ^. Jaccaci. 

Col. William Joy. 

I Names of Trustees in ita!ics.'\ 



Jacob Katz. 

Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Ketcham. 

Gi'n. //oratio C. King. 

Albert E. Kleinert. 

Dr. George F. Kuns. 

Jolin LaFarge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

I'rederick S. Lamb. 

Homer Lee. 

Charles W. Lcfler. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss. 

Dr. Henry M. l.eipsiger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

Herman Livingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seth Lozu. 

R. Fulton Ludlow. 

Hon. .Arthur MacArlhur. 

William A. Marble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook. 

Col. John J. McCook. 

Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Com. Jacob n : Miller. 

Hon. Warner Miller. 

Frank D. Millet. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogdcn Mills. 

J. Pierpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham Morris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Wm. C. Miischenheim. 

Nathan Newman. 

C. H. Nieliaus. 

Ludzvig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Chas. R. Norman. 

//tn. Morgan /. OBrien. 

W. R. O'Donovan. 

Eben E. Olcott. 

Prof. Henry F. Osborn. 

Wm. Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'SuUivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel .\. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Rowland Pell. 

Hon. Geo. IV. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 



George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Kidder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry IV. Sackett. 

Col. Wm. Gary Sanger. 
George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 
r,-^ A. Schermerhorn. 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff. 
Prest. Jacob G. Schur- 

man. 
Gustav H. Schwab. 
Hon. Townsend Scudder. 
fsaac N. Selie^man. 
Louis Seligsburg. 
Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 
Hon. Fred'k. IV. Setvard 



Hon. Wtn. F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

J. Edward Simimns. 

John W. Simpson. 

E. V. Skinner. 

Prof: John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Henry L. Stoddard 
Wm. L. Stone. 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro 
Stevenson Taylor. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
i>pencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Lt.-Co,n. Aaran I'ander- 

btlt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 



[Names of Trustees in itahcs.] 



Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
Rev Dr. Henry Van 

Dyke. 
Warner Van Norden. 
»m. B. Van Rensselaer. 
John R. Van Wormer. 
J. Leonard Varick. ' 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
tol. John IV. Vrooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward 
hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells, Jr 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
tdmund IVetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
H01U Andrew D. White. 
J- Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Whitney. 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 
Hon. John S. Wise. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Hon. Joseph S. Wood 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 
W. E. Woollev. 
James A. Wright. 



452 

WfCxtnB mxh (EommittprB 



President 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York, 

"Vice-Presidents 

]\Ir. Herman Ridder. Presiding Vice-President. 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Selignian, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Aeronautics Comniittee 

Hon. Wni. Berri, Chairman, 526 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 

Art and Historical HxHibits Committee 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 23 Wall Street, New York. 
Sub-Committee ( Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Chairman, 
on •] Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Art Exhibits. ( Mr. Edward Robinson. 
Sub-Committee ( Dr. George F. Kunz, Chairman, 
on Historical -j Mr. S. V. Hoffman, 

Exhibits. ( Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

Auditing Committee 

Hon. N. Taylor. Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

Banquet Committee 
Col. William Jay, Chairman, 48 Wall Street, New York. 
Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Civic Parade Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder. Chairman, 182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. B. Altman. Hon. Lewis Nixon, 

Mr. August Belmont, Mr. Eben E. Olcott. 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. William Church Osborn, 

Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. Bayard L. Peck. 

Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. Howland Pell, 

Hon. George C. Clausen, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Mr. George Ehret, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Mr. Frank S. Gardner, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 

Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. William Sohmer. 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. James Speyer, 

Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Louis Stern, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. J. Leonard Varick, 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 



453 

Executive Committee 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, i8 Wall Street New York 

TT T , Mr. John E. Parsons, Vice-chairman. 

Hon. James M Beck. Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien. 

Jf '■• ^'iru- ^- ^ergen, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. William Bern, _ Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Mr. Herman Ridder, 

S^'^'a.^-m"'- J- B- Coghlan,U.S.A., Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Mr. Wilham J. Curtis, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman 

mI'- r^^ ^'^1?'^?' "°"- Frederick W. Seward. 

M ^-fr- 5- S- Grant, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 

J?*",- S^-n?'"'^ Hagaman Hall, Hon. John H. Starin 

Col. William Jay, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. John La Farge, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

S°"- A^.rn- ^''Tl r^ „ ^'- W"^- B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. William McCarroII, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. ' 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. Andrew D. White 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. ' 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

General Commemorative Exercises Committee 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman, Ithaca N Y 

yfT-A^r''^ r ^°°^^' ^'- Henry M. Leipziger, 

Mn Andrew Carnegie, Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Col. Wm. Gary Sanger 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Invitations Committee 

u T ^°"i- P/°)l?'' Cleveland, Chairman, Princeton, N T 
Hon. Joseph H^ Choate, Gen. Horace Porter,' 

Hon. Levi P. Morton Hon. Andrew D. White 

The Secretary, ex officio. 

Inwood Park Committee 

A/r H^xr/r ^" ^- Parsons, Chairman, 52 William St., New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Law and Legislation Committer 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St New York 
Mr"#ir'' ^- ^n''^'- Col.'william Jay •' '" ^'''^■ 

Mr Th^^T ^tP.T'' ^'- J^'^" E. Parsons, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-okcio. 

Memorials Committee 

Hon. Seth Low. Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 



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Military Parade Committee 

Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 

Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Naval Parade Committee 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 
59 West 45th Street, New York. 
Consfr Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob W Miller, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Chas. R. Norman 

Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Mr. Louis T Roma.ne, 

Mr. William J. McKay, Hon John H. Starm 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt 

U. S.N., . . 

Nominations Committee 

Mr Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Col. John W. Vrooman, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. The President, ex-oMcto. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee 

Gen James Grant Wilson. Chairman, 157 W. 79th St., New York. 
Mr. R. P. Bolton, . Mr. Wm. L Stone, 

Mr Edward DeWitt, Mr. Albert Ulmann. 

Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 

Plan and Scope Committee 

Hon Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. John E.. Parsons, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan, U.S.N., Mr. Herman R'dder 
Mr. Robert W. De Forest, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson 

Maj .-Gen. Fred'k D.Grant, U.S.A., Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Dr. George F. Kunz. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

Hon Seth Low Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon' Wm. McCarroll. Gen. James Grant Wdson, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, The President, ex-omcw. 

Reception Committee 

Hon. Seth Low, Chairman, 30 East 64th Street, New York. 

Col. John Jacob Astor, Hon. David B. Hill, 

Hon James M. Beck, Hon. Henry E. Howland, 

Hon. Frank S. Black, Col. Wilham Jay, 

Hon. A. J. Boulton, Hon. Phineas C Lounsbury. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Col. John J. McCook 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. St Cla.r McKelway 

Mr. John Claflin, Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, U. S^N.. 

Hon Grover Cleveland, Hon. John G Milburn, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.N., Mr. Ogden Mills, 

Most Rev. John M. Farley. Mr. J. P^ Mo^ga", _ 

Mai -Gen Fred'k D. Grant. Mr. Fordham Morns, 

U' S A Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Mr. E. H. Hall, Hon. Alton B. Parker, ■ 



Reception 

Gen. Horace Porter, 
Rt. Rev. H. C Potter, 
Mr. Thos. R. Proctor, 
Mr. Herman Riddcr, 
Mr. Wm. Rockefeller, 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
Pres. J. G. Schurman, 
Mr. I. N. Seligman, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward 



Committee {continued) 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Hon. Andrew D. White 
Hon. William R. Willcox, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 



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VerplancK's Point ParK Committee 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill N Y 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley 

Mr"VH ^'^.^'" Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

"Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William St. New York 
Mr. John E. Parsons Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. George W. Perkms, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

?T°"-T ^!?'' y,, Seward, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Mr. J. Edward Smimons, 



457 
Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

April 2 2, 1908. 

The twenty-fifth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at its headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau Street, New York 
City, Wednesday, April 22, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present: President Stewart L. Woodford in the chair; 
and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. George V. Brower, Rear 
Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. Theodore Fitch, 
Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. 
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Dr. 
Henry M. Leipziger, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. 
Ludwig Nissen, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. Samuel Par- 
sons, Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
President Jacob Gould Schurman, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Col. John W. Vrooman, and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Curtis, Mr. George G. DeWitt, Hon. Warren Higley, Gen. 
Horatio C. King, Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Hon. Seth 
Low, Commander Jacob W. Miller, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Herman Ridder, Col. Herbert 
L. Satterlee, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Mr. Spencer Trask, 
and Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved as printed. 



458 Minutes of Trustees 

Treasurer's Report. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
dated April 22, 1908, was read as follows: 
To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, 
Gentlemen: I have the honor to report that no disburse- 
ments have been made since the last meeting and that the 
balance of the State Fund on hand remains as then stated, 
namely, $6,964.90. . 

The balance in the Subscription Fund also remams the 
same as before stated $9.18. 

Yours respectfully, 

IsA.\c N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 
Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings for March $1 98 

Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing 6 75 

J. B. Lyon Co., 1,000 manila envelopes 4 5^ 

E H. Hall, Disbursements $22 16 

E. H. Hall, Salary for April 250 00 

■ 272 16 

$285 39 



Invitation to Kingston's Quarter-Millennial. 

The following invitation from the Hon. A. T. Clearwater, 
a member of this Commission, was read : 

Kingston, N. Y., March 30, 1908. 
To the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Gentlemen: On the first day of June next the citizens of 
Kingston will celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anni- 
versary of the founding of the City, and on behalf of the 
Comm'ittee of Fifty-nine on Plan and Scope, and the Com- 
mittee on Speakers and Invited Guests, it afifords me the 
greatest pleasure to extend to the members of your Com- 
mission an invitation to be present and take part in the 
ceremonies attendant upon the celebration. The Governor 



April 2 2, 1908 459 

of the State will deliver an address. In due time the formal 
invitation will be sent to the President of the Commission, 
but this invitation is sent at this early date to obviate the 
sending of a separate invitation to each member of the 
Commission. 

Respectfully, 

A. T. Clearwater. 

It was voted that the cordial thanks of the Commission 
be extended to the citizens of Kingston for their kind 
invitation and that it be accepted in behalf of as many 
members of this Commission as may be able to attend. 

Nominated for Appointment to the Commission. 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on 
Nominations, presented a report recommending the appoint- 
ment of the following named gentlemen as members of 
the Commission : 

By the Governor: Hon. Andrew S. Draper of Albany, 
Commissioner of Education of the State of New York. 

By the Mayor of New York: Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould, of 
301 West Seventy-seventh Street, New York, educator, 
philanthropist and financier, formerly City Chamberlain; 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren, of 34 Ferry Street, New York, 
leather merchant, financier, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, Vice- 
President of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, etc.; 
and Mr. John R. Van Wormer of 32 East Forty-second 
Street, New York, Secretary and General INIanager of the 
Lincoln Safe Deposit and Warehouse Co., ex-President of 
the Holland Society and member of various patriotic and 
historical societies. 

The report was adopted. 

Report of the Plan and Scope Committee. 
The Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman of the Plan 
and Scope Committee, presented the following report : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 
The Committee on Plan and Scope, having received sug- 
gestions from several of the committees to which various 



460 Minutes of Trustees 

details of the celebration have been referred, recommends 
that the programme heretofore submitted be amended as 
follows : 

1. That in accordance with the request of the Robert 
Fulton Monument Association, provision for the dedication 
of the Robert Fulton Memorial Gate be omitted from the 
programme of Monday, September 27. 

2. That Monday evening, September 27th, be the date 
of the Music Festival instead of Thursday evening, Sep- 
tember 30th. 

3. That the President be requested to appoint a Music 
Festival Committee to have charge of that feature of the 
celebration. 

4. That the Official Literary Exercises on Tuesday even- 
ing, September 28th, be confined to those authorized to be 
held in the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall. 

5. That the Land Parade on Wednesday, the 29th, be 
restricted to the United States Army, United States Navy 
and Marine Corps, the National Guard and the Naval 
Militia. 

6. That Thursday evening, September 30, 1909, be the 
date for the Official Banquet instead of Monday evening, 
September 27th. 

7. That Saturday evening, October 2d, be the date for 
the civic parade ; that the parade be called the Carnival 
Parade; and that the Committee in charge of it be called 
the Carnival Parade Committee instead of Civic Parade 
Committee. 

8. That the general idea of co-operating with institutions 
of learning in the publication of catalogues of their cele- 
bration exhibits be approved, the details to be arranged 
later. 

9. And that the general idea of preserving the scenery 
of the Highlands of the Hudson River be approved, but 
that further consideration be given to the subject before 
any specific recommendation be made. 

Owing to the many inquiries for copies of the programme 
of the Celebration, and the changes in dates which have 
been made since the Plan and Scope Report was reprinted 
in the minutes of October 23, 1907, w^e submit herewith a 
revised report, of which extra copies can be printed, if 
desired, as a general circular of information. 

Understanding that it is the policy of the Commission 
to hold itself open to any practical suggestions which may 
contribute to the success of the celebration, we repeat the 



April 2 2, 1908 461 

statement made in our former reports to the etTect that the 
programme here oiitti}ied is not to be regarded as final 
except in its essential features. 

THE DATE. 

The official commemoration of the three hundredth anni- 
versary of the exploration of the Hudson River by Henry 
Hudson in 1609 and the one hundredth anniversary of the 
inauguration of commercially successful steam navigation 
by Robert Fulton upon the Hudson River in 1807,* will 
begin on Saturday, September 25, 1909, and continue eight 
days, unless it should be deemed advisable to supplement 
the present programme with an " old home week " along the 
upper Hudson River. It is contemplated not only that the 
celebration shall embrace the whole Hudson Valley from 
the mouth of the river to the head of navigation, upon or 
tributary to which is the residence of over one-half of the 
population of the State, but also that it shall embrace the 
whole State of New York, for it is the existence of the 
Hudson River in connection with the remarkable geograph- 
ical situation and topographical nature of the State that 
has made the State's wonderful growth and prosperity 
possible. 

The date selected combines historical propriety and pop- 
ular convenience. Hudson entered the lower harbor on 
September 2, 1609; started up the river September 12th; 
reached his " farthest north " September 19th ; started 
down stream on his return voyage September 23d ; and set 
sail from the lower harbor for home on October 4th. The 
celebration covers the anniversaries of eight days of Hud- 
son's memorable voyage in our river, concluding on the 
anniversary of his battle with the Indians in the river 
opposite Manhattan Island and his anchorage near the green 
clifif of Hoboken. 

The days selected will come in the week following the 
autumnal equinox when there is prospect of good weather. 
Forecaster Emery of the Weather Bureau of New York 

* It may be explained for the benefit of persons who are 
not members of the Commission and to whom copies of this 
programme may be sent, that the centennial anniversary of the 
first trip of Fulton's steamboat Clermont occured on August 17, 
1907. Its official commemoration was postponed, however, in order 
that it might be combined with the celebration of the 300th anni- 
versary of Hudson's voyage, for the reason that the two events 
occurred on the same river, and their anniversaries came so close 
together as to make separate commemorations upon a large scale 
inexpedient. 



462 Minutes of Trustees 

informs us, after an examination of the records for a num- 
ber of years, that while (contrary to popular belief) rain 
has been less frequent during equinoctial week than during 
the week before, there has been even less rain in the week 
following the equinox. 

The dates have also been selected upon the advice of 
those conversant with summer travel with a view to accom- 
modating those returning from their summer's outings. 

RELIGIOUS SERVICE DAYS. 

(Saturday, September 25, and Sunday, September 26, 1909.) 

We are of the opinion that in arranging for the celebra- 
tion we should not overlook the Divine guidance in the 
two great events to be commemorated, one of which opened 
up our State to modern civilization and led to the founding 
of the City of New York, and the other of which laid the 
foundation for the vast commerce upon which the prosperity 
of the City and State so largely depends. We have there- 
fore set apart the first two days for religious observances 
by those who are accustomed to worship on Saturday and 
Sunday. 

RECEPTION DAY. 

(Monday, September 27th.) 

The secular observances will begin on Monday, Septem- 
ber 27th, with the following features : 

General decoration of public and private buildings from 
New York to the head of the river. 

Rendezvous of American and foreign vessels at New 
York. 

Fac-simile of Hudson's " Half j\Ioon " to enter the river, 
be formally received and take her place in line. 

Fac-simile of Fulton's " Clermont " to start from original 
site with appropriate exercises and take position in line. 

Visiting guests to disembark and be officially received. 

Typical Indian Village at Inwood to be established by 
American Museum of Natural History. 

'In the evening, a Music Festival in New York City. 

HISTORICAL DAY. 

(Tuesday, September 28th.) 

Tuesday, the 28th, is essentially an educational day, de- 
signed to be participated in by the universities, colleges, 
schools, museums and learned and patriotic societies 
throughout the whole State. While the commemoration of 



April 2 2, 1908 463 

1909 must, from geographical considerations, largely center 
around the Hudson River, the glory and the material bene- 
fits of Hudson's and Fulton's achievements are the heritage 
of the people of the entire State, and the programme for 
Historical Day affords a practical means for a general ob- 
servance of the occasion from one end of the State to the 
other. Features of this day's observances will be as follows : 
Commemorative exercises in Columbia University, New 
York University, College of City of New York, Cooper 
Union, University of St. John at Fordham, Hebrew Uni- 
versity, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Public 
Schools, Historical Societies, and all the universities, col- 
leges and institutions of learning throughout the State of 
New York; with free lectures for the people in New York 
City under the auspices of the Board of Education. 

Exhibits of paintings, prints, books, models, relics, etc., 
by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum 
of Natural History, the Hispanic Museum, the American 
Numismatic Society, the New York Public Library, the 
New York Historical Society, the New York Genealogical 
and Biographical Society, the American Geographical So- 
ciety, Webb's School for Shipbuilders, the New York 
Yacht Club, and similar institutions throughout the State. 
If practicable, some of these exhibits may open earlier in 
the year and extend over a period of several months. 

During the day, visiting guests will be shown about the 
City of New York. 

In the evening, the Official Literary Exercises will be 
held in the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall, 
at which orations will be delivered by men of national 
reputation. 

MILITARY PARADE DAY. 

(Wednesday, September 29th.) 

On Wednesday will occur the military parade, partici- 
pated in by the United States Army, the United States 
Navy and Marine Corps, the National Guard and the 
Naval Militia. 

Owing to the probable length of this parade, which may 
contain as many as 25,000 troops, the great fatigue which 
would be caused to the distinguished reviewing party if 
required to witness a longer procession, and the difficulties 
in the way of moving with precision and promptness a 
larger body if composed of undrilled civilians, it has been 
deemed advisable to eliminate from this parade the civic 
features heretofore suggested. 



464 Minutes of Trustees 

An evening reception to the official guests at the head- 
quarters of the Department of the Kast on Governor's 
Island is suggested as the closing event of the day if it 
proves agreeable to the authorities. 

DEDICATION DAY. 

(Thursday, September 30th.) 

Soon after the Commission was formed, a World's Fair 
at or near New York City was suggested. After giving 
several public hearings the subject was referred to the 
Plan and Scope Committee, w^ho, in their preliminary report, 
expressed the belief that the country had been surfeited 
with such temporary celebrations and voiced the hope that 
the celebration of 1909 would be conducted on a plan 
which would leave monumental works of lasting benefit to 
the people. The ideas thus expressed have received un- 
equivocal expressions of approval from the leading news- 
papers of this and other States and have been accepted as 
the policy of the Commission. 

We therefore recommend that Thursday in Celebration 
Week be devoted to the dedication of parks and memorials 
along the Hudson River; and that, between now and then, 
the most earnest efforts be made to secure not only the 
great memorials like Inwood Hill Park, the Hudson 
Memorial Bridge, the Verplanck's Point Park, the com- 
pletion of the Palisades Drive, etc., but also that the civic 
pride of various communities along the river be invoked 
to participate in like manner by establishing parks, institu- 
tions or other public memorials. 

We approve of the preservation of the scenery of the 
Highlands as a memorial to Henry Hudson if means there- 
for can be found. 

We also recommend that the interest of the numerous 
historical and patriotic societies be enlisted for the erection 
of monuments and tablets, so that the history of the Hudson 
Valley may be written in stone and bronze from the site 
of old Fort Amsterdam to the site of old Fort Orange. 
We already have advices which indicate that monuments 
to William the Silent, the Prison Ship Martyrs and the 
victims of the Maine disaster and a tablet to the Founders 
and Patriots of New York will be ready for dedication 
next year. 

The programme for the day contemplates not only the 
dedication of such permanent memorials, but also : 

Aquatic sports on the Hudson River, designed in the 
first instance for friendly competition between the crews 



April 22, 1908 465 

of the naval vessels, but which may embrace motor boat 
races and such other amusements as may seem practicable 
and desirable; 

A reception to visiting guests at West Point during the 
day; and 

An Official Banquet in honor of distinguished guests 
in the City of New York in the evening. 

HUDSON RIVER DAY. 

(Friday, October ist.) 

Friday, October ist is devoted to the Naval Parade and 
incidental ceremonies. It appears to be practicable for 
some of our naval vessels to proceed as far north as New- 
burgh Bay. We have therefore planned to have as many 
vessels of the navy, merchant marine, excursion boats, and 
pleasure craft as possible go from New York to Newburgh, 
taking with them the fac-similes of the " Half Moon " and 
" Clermont." 

In order that the inhabitants of the country on either 
side of the river may see the parade and the reproductions 
of the historic vessels, we recommend that the day be de- 
voted by them to fetes champetres along the river-sides 
from New York to Newburgh. 

As the procession passes up the river, salutes may be fired 
from eligible points. 

Simultaneously with the advance of the Southern Hudson 
Division, we recommend a counter-procession from Albany 
to Newburgh, the two divisions meeting and holding appro- 
priate ceremonies at Newburgh. The delivery of the 
" Half Moon " and " Clermont " to the North Hudson 
Division would form a feature of these exercises. 

CARNIVAL DAY. 

(Saturday, October 2d.) 

Saturday, October 2d, is designed for a general Carnival 
Day. 

The two divisions of the Naval Parade will return to 
their respective starting points, the people residing north of 
Newburgh holding open air fetes at convenient places along 
the river which will enable them to see and salute the 
" Half Moon " and " Clermont " as they pass. 

In all the cities this will be peculiarly the Children's Day, 
devoted to fetes in public and private parks and play- 
grounds. The fertility of the youthful mind as displayed 
in their Alay Party and Thanksgiving Day observances sug- 



466 Minutes of Trustees 

gests that these Children's Festivals may develop into one 
of the most interesting and picturesque features of the cele- 
bration. 

The celebration will culminate in New York City in the 
evening with a Carnival Parade. This feature, with its 
moving allegorical tableaux and illustrations of the arts of 
civilization will, it is believed, exceed in beauty and interest 
the most famous carnivals of Europe. 

Brilliancy will be added to the general spectacle by the 
illumination of the fleet and public and private buildings 
and a pyrotechnic display. Displays of fireworks at various 
points, notably on the great bridges as in the fetes of the 
14th of July in Paris, can be seen by hundreds of thousands 
of people and will give great pleasure to the masses. 

At 9 p. M. it is designed to have a chain of signal fires 
from mountain tops and other eligible points along the whole 
river, lighted simultaneously. For these signal fires, the 
co-operation of the inhabitants and authorities of different 
localities is confidently relied upon. It is believed that each 
one will select suitable points where such bonfires may be 
conspicuous and yet compatible with safety to property ; 
and that the public spirit of the community will inspire its 
members with zeal for collecting the materials, and firing 
the piles at the hour appointed. 

In the cities of Troy, Albany, Rensselaer, Hudson, Kings- 
ton, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, and Yonkers, and in the 
villages along the river, similar events are contemplated. 

OLD HOME WEEK. 

(Sunday, October 3d, to Saturday, October 9th.) 

It has been suggested with much force that the celebra- 
tion might judiciously be prolonged another week in order 
that communities along the Hudson River might have an 
opportunity for a series of " old home days." It has been 
represented to the committee that the events previously out- 
lined will draw many residents of the State to the City of 
New York and will prevent as full a participation in local 
celebrations as might otherwise be possible ; whereas, in the 
week following not only will the citizens of the communities 
outside of the Metropolis be at home, but former residents 
of those communities will also be freer to make pilgrimages 
to their old homes, renew old ties and participate in local 
exercises. These personal ties which, despite the migra- 
tions of our citizens, bind the various communities to each 
other, form one of the strongest factors in promoting the 



April 22, 1908 467 

unity of the commonwealth and should sedulously be fos- 
tered. If, therefore, the proposed " old home week " 
should prove practicable, we should favor the co-opera- 
tion of this Commission in making it a success. 

'All of which is respectfully submitted in behalf of the 
Committee. 

Frederick W. Seward, 

Chairman. 

The report was received and approved and the recom- 
mendations adopted. 

Report of Official Banquet Committee. 

In the absence of Col. William Jay, Chairman of the 
Committee on Official Banquet, the Secretary reported that 
at a joint meeting of the Plan and Scope Commit- 
tee and the Banquet Committee held April 15th, a 
letter from Col. Jay w'as read stating that the Hotel 
Astor contemplated an extensive addition which was ex- 
pected to be ready in time for the banquet September 30, 
1909, and in which a thousand people or more could be 
seated and served with dinner. Col. Jay said that it seemed 
to him to be a question between the Hotel Astor and the 
Waldorf-Astoria, and he was disposed to favor the former. 
Col. Jay also desired the views of the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee as to whether all attending the banquet should be 
invited guests and be entertained at the expense of the 
Commission, or whether tickets should be sold to a certain 
number of subscribers. He thought the latter plan would 
be convenient as providing a fund for the banquet. The 
Plan and Scope Committee had recommended to the Banquet 
Committee that 500 seats be reserved for official guests, 
also necessary seats for the Banquet, Invitations and Recep- 
tion Committees, and that the remainder be sold according 
to such plan as the Banquet Committee might deem best. 

The President asked Mr. Muschenheim if the new dining 
hall would surely be ready by September 30, 1909. 

Mr. Muschenheim replied that it would and explained the 
progress of the building of the addition. He said that they 
already had a surplus of steam heating and lighting plant 
in their present hotel, also ample kitchen accommodations, 



468 Minutes of Trustees 

so that new equipments in those respects would not be re- 
quired. He said that the entire ground floor of the addi- 
tion would be given to the new dining hall; that the open 
floor in the center would seat 1,090 guests; and that in the 
colonnade under the boxes surrounding three sides 600 
more could be seated. If necessary, the three adjoining 
assembly rooms could be used for dining space, and assem- 
bly rooms could be provided elsewhere, thus accommodating 
800 more diners, all of whom, he said, could see and hear 
the speakers. The galleries would accommodate about 500 
spectators. He said that he felt in a delicate position as a 
member of this Commission in expressing the desire to serve 
the Ofiicial Banquet, but he wished to assure the Commis- 
sion that he was not animated by any mercenary motives. 
He did not expect any pecuniary profit, but he wanted to 
co-operate with the Commission and do what he could by 
his personal attention and the resources he could command 
to make the banquet a great success. 

Further consideration was postponed until the Banquet 
Committee presented a formal report. 

Report of General Coviv.ieuiorative Exercises Committee. 
President Schurman of Cornell University, Chairman of 
the Committee on General Commemorative Exercises, spoke 
of the large opportunity presented for the educational exten- 
sion of the work of the Commission through the perform- 
ance of the duties assigned to his committee and the import- 
ance of enlisting the interest of educational institutions, 
learned societies, and patriotic and historical organizations 
throughout the State in the celebration next year. In be- 
half of his committee, he presented two recommendations, 
namely, that the Hon. Andrew S. Draper, Commissioner of 
Education of the State of New York, be nominated for 
membership on the Commission ; and that the Assistant 
Secretary or some other person be requested to prepare a 
manual of information, containing a brief account of Hud- 
son and Fulton and the events to be commemorated next 
year. President Schurman thought that perhaps the Com- 
missioner of Education would have the manual printed with- 



April 22, 1908 469 

out expense to this Commission, and he expressed the belief 
that it would be a vakiable medium for disseminating infor- 
mation and stimulating interest in the commemoration. 

The report was received. 

Col. Vrooman eulogized Commissioner Draper and said 
that it was a singular oversight that the head of the educa- 
tional system of the State had not sooner been made a 
member of this Commission. 

Mr. Fitch, in behalf of the Committee on Nominations, 
immediately presented the name of Commissioner Draper 
as recommended by President Schurman and moved that it 
be inserted in the report of that Committee already adopted. 
Without objection the motion was adopted. 

Upon motion of ^Ir. Seligman, President Schurman's 
second recommendation was also adopted, and the Assistant 
Secretary was directed to prepare the manual according to 
the suggestions contained therein. 

Report of Inzvood Hill Park Committee. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman of the In wood Hill Park 
Committee, reported that the result of the efforts of the 
Committee since the conference at the Mayor's office last 
year was to satisfy it that the City authorities should imme- 
diately be asked to authorize condemnation proceedings to 
acquire the proposed park. At the time of the meeting at 
the Mayor's office, it was assumed that the proposed area 
could be acquired for a sum not to exceed $2,000,000. At 
this expenditure, the area to be acquired would furnish both 
the Park and the approach to the bridge. A plot of over 
100 lots is for sale at a price on the basis of which the 
necessary area would come well within $2,000,000. The 
particular plot referred to is equal to and in some respects 
above the average value of the entire area. Until recently, 
land on the hill has been offered by the acre. The owners 
now put their valuations upon the basis of a division into 
lots. The owners of another parcel comprising over 300 
lots put their valuations upon a basis of $4,000 a lot. Much 
of that parcel is low and upon the banks of a canal, unsuit- 
able for any remunerative use. The Committee is not pre- 



470 Minutes of Trustees 

pared to recommend the purchase of that parcel at any 
price which the owners are wilhng to accept. The owners 
call attention to the fact that the city under condemnation 
proceedings has paid as much as $3,000 a lot for other prop- 
erty which they claim cannot be compared with their hold- 
ings at Inwood. The answer to this would seem to be that 
recent revelations lead to the result that the time has passed 
when property was to be acquired at an extravagant price 
through the action of condemnation commissioners. 

In suggesting that condemnation proceedings be taken, 
said Mr. Parsons, the Committee recommends that, as a 
partial alternative, there shall be the right to acquire such 
parcels as can be purchased at a reasonable rate. Several 
advantages would result from such a course. The expense 
of condemnation proceedings would be avoided ; the pur- 
chase could be consummated within a reasonable time; and 
the price would furnish a basis of market value in condem- 
nation proceedings. The Committee would not by any 
means recommend that the property of any owner be taken 
at less than its fair value. What they deprecated was that 
an attempt should be made to take advantage of an import- 
ant scheme to force from the city sums which have no fair 
relation to the market value. 

With his report ]\Ir. Parsons filed correspondence which 
was not designed for publication, but which was open to 
inspection by any of the Trustees. 

It was "Resolved that the Report of the Inwood Hill 
Committee be and the same hereby is approved ; and that 
the city authorities be requested to take action as proposed 
by the Report." 

Report of Carnival Parade Coininitfee. 
In the absence of Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman of the 
Carnival Parade Committee, the Secretary reported that the 
recommendations of the Plan and Scope Committee, already 
adopted, to the efifect that the civic parade be held Saturday 
evening, October 2, 1909, and that it take the form of a car- 
nival with allegorical and historical floats, had been made 
on Mr. Ridder's suggestion. Mr. Ridder had already com- 



April 2 2, 1908 471 

municated with some of the German singing societies and 
their co-operation was assured. It was beUeved that the 
demonstration Saturday evening, combining the carnival 
parade, the ilhnnination of the fleet, the hghting of public 
and private buildings, and the pyrotechnic display, would 
excel anything of the kind ever given abroad. 

Committee on Aeronautics. 
The President stated that the Hon. William Berri had 
expressed the idea that great public interest would be taken 
in an exhibition of every kind of aerial locomotion. He 
believed that the science of aerial travel would be so far 
advanced next year as to make such an exhibition practical 
and of world wide importance. And Mr. Ridder had sug- 
gested that an illumination of air-craft on Saturday night 
would add a novel attraction to the Carnival. The Presi- 
dent was so impressed with these suggestions that he had 
decided to appoint, and announced the appointment of, Mr. 
Berri as chairman of a Committee on Aeronautics, to 
make recommendations to the Plan and Scope Committee. 
He said that he would announce the appointment of the 
other members of the Committee later. 

Report of Committee on Law and Legislation. 
Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Committee on Law and 
Legislation, after recapitulating the efforts of the Committee 
to secure an appropriation of $300,000 for the celebration, 
in addition to the reappropriation of the $12,500 balance of 
the $25,000 appropriated in 1906, stated that the Senate 
Supply Bill, as printed, contained the following provision : 

" The sum of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars 
($125,000), being the unexpended balance of an appropri- 
ation made by chapter three hundred twenty-five of the laws 
of nineteen hundred six for the Hudson-Fulton celebration 
commission is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose, 
and the further sum of one hundred thousand dollars 
($100,000), is hereby appropriated and made immediately 
available for the same purpose, and the further sum of fifty 
thousand dollars ($50,000) which is hereby appropriated 
and made available therefor on and after January first, 
nineteen hundred nine." 



472 Minutes of Trustees 

Mr. Stetson said that upon discovering the error in the 
first item, which appeared to reappropriate $125,000 instead 
of $12,500 unexpended balance, he had written to Senator 
Armstrong, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the 
Senate, calhng attention to the mistake and suggesting that 
the difference between $12,500 and $125,000, namely, 
$112,500, be added to the second item, so that the bill would 
provide the following sums: $12,500 reappropriation of un- 
expended balance; $212,000 more available at once; and 
$50,000 more available after the first of January, 1909. 
Senator Armstrong replied as follows : 

Albany, April 14, 1908. 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

New York City. 
My Dear Mr. Stetson: I have your favor of the 13th 
instant. Owing to a typographical error the supply bill 
gives your commission $125,000 of unexpended balance, 
when it ought to be $12,500 of your original $25,000 appro- 
priation. The determination of the committee was to give 
you that $12,500 unexpended balance and $150,000 more, 
of which $100,000 should be immediately available and the 
balance after the first of next January. It may be that with 
this explanation it will not be so satisfactory to you, but the 
Committee feels that it is all that can be done this year. 

Yours truly, 

Wm. W. Armstrong. 

Mr. Stetson stated that while the situation was not as 
favorable as might be desired, he was encouraged by the 
closing words of Senator Armstrong's letter — " that it is 
all that can be done this year " — which implied a further 
appropriation next year. 

Report received. 

Report of Committee on Memorials. 

Mr. Bergen, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
reported on the following four topics : 

First : With respect to the proposed new government 
lighthouse on Stony Point, the Committee was of the opinion 
that the Commission had no duty to perform concerning 



April 22, 1908 473 

the celebration of the battle of Stony Point. Concerning a 
lighthouse on Verplanck's Point, the Committee thought it 
best to defer recommendations until the State had acted 
upon the subject of the proposed State Park. 

Second : The Committee thought that in addition to the 
medals which might be struck, a general or souvenir pro- 
gramme should be published. This should include a state- 
ment concerning the Commission and its work, a programme 
of the celebration, a short authentic account of prominent 
landmarks, and historic events connected with the Half 
Aloon and Clermont. This programme might be issued in 
a cheap, popular form, and in addition thereto an extra 
edition de luxe for better preservation. It might be illus- 
trated with views of the river, and of the Half Moon and 
Clermont. 

Third: It would be proper to consider the selection of 
proper sites where memorial tablets could be erected to 
commemorate certain leading events in the history of the 
Half Moon and Clermont, the style, material and wording 
of the tablets to be considered later. 

Fourth: In connection with the appointment of Foreign 
Correspondent Councillors (see page 417) Mr. Bergen re- 
ported progress in the movement in the Netherlands for the 
presentation of the Half Moon by the people of Holland. 
From Commissioner Jaccaci, who had recently returned 
from Holland, and from correspondence, it was learned 
that the museum authorities of the Netherlands and a cer- 
tain high official were making researches in regard to the 
design of the Half Moon which were both significant and 
gratifying, but the Committee's information was not such 
as to warrant an authoritative announcement. He hoped to 
be in a position at the next meeting to nominate Foreign 
Correspondent Councillors. 

Report of progress received. 

Report of Naval Parade Committee. 
Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Naval Parade Com- 
mittee, reported that his committee had sought information 
from every available source in regard to the designs of the 



474 Minutes of Trustees 

Half Moon and Clermont, and it was believed that the 
sources of information concerning the Clermont had been 
exhausted. The inquiry concerning the Half Moon, as 
reported by Mr. Jaccaci of his Committee and as stated by 
Mr. Bergen, was still in progress in the Netherlands. In 
regard to the Clermont, the Committee believed that it was 
now as well prepared as possible to take the necessary steps 
for construction, and recommended that the sum of $250, 
or so much thereof as might be necessary, be placed at the 
disposal of the Committee for the preparation of working 
plans and blue prints to submit to bidders, and for the pre- 
liminary expenses of the building of the vessel. It was the 
consensus of opinion of the Committee that the Clermont 
should be built so as to appear as she did on her initial trip 
August 17, 1807, and not with the improvements which were 
made a few weeks later. 

The report was received and approved, and it was voted 
that $250 be appropriated for the preliminary expenses of 
the Committee. 

Iron Used in Building the Clermont. 
In connection with his report on the Clermont, Admiral 
Coghlan filed with the Secretary a letter dated March 31, 
1908, from Dr. George F. Kunz, a Trustee of the Commis- 
sion, stating that " The iron used in the building of the 
old Clermont was made from bog iron ore found in the 
swamps of Allaire, N. J. Allaire is an estate of some 6,000 
acres and is owned by Mr. Arthur Brisbane, editor of the 
New York Journal, who has generously offered to furnish 
one ton or more of iron from the old buildings and furnace 
which still stand at Allaire for the building of the 
Clermont." 

Report of Offieial Literary Exercises Committee. 
Gen. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Official Lit- 
erary Exercises, reported that the use of the Metropolitan 
Opera House for Tuesday evening, September 28, 1909, had 
been secured without cost through the great courtesy of the 
owners, and that Carnegie Hall had been engaged for the 



April 22, 1908 475 

same evening for the sum of $400. These two halls to- 
gether would scat 6,500 persons with standing room for 
1,000 more. The Committee had received an unofficial offer 
of the Brooklyn Academy of Music without cost if the 
Commission should desire to use that auditorium for a third 
entertainment. The latter would accommodate 3,000 per- 
sons. With reference to the Metropolitan Opera House 
and Carnegie Hall, it was the plan of the Conmiittee to 
have the then President of the United States and the two 
ex-Presidents first visit the Opera House and speak, occu- 
pying about an hour, and then go to Carnegie Hall and 
speak. At the Opera House they would be followed by a 
speaker of national reputation who would deliver the ora- 
tion at that place. At Carnegie Hall the Presidents would 
be preceded by another distinguished speaker who would 
deliver the oration for that place. 

The report was received and the action of the Committee 
in securing the Opera House and Carnegie Hall approved. 

On motion of Mr. Sackett, the offer of the Brooklyn 
Academy of Music was referred back to the Committee on 
Official Literary Exercises with power to accept it and 
make arrangements for exercises there. 

Upon motion of Col. Vrooman, the cordial thanks of the 
Commission were extended to the owner of the Metropolitan 
Opera House for their generosity and public spirit in placing 
the auditorium at the disposal of the Commission without 
cost. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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478 



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Abraham Abraham. 
Herbert Adams. 
John G. As:tir. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Chas. H. Armatage. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor William J. 

Baxter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hon. John Bigelow. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
Herbert L. Bridgman. 
George V. Brower. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrezv Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

lan. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis 
Roht. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon Robt. W. de Forest. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 



James de la Montayne. 

E. S. A. deLima. 

Hon. C M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

Gforg-f G. tUW'itt. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Eames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thos. A. Emmet. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. 
Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

P.arr Ferree. 

Stuyiesant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Wi-nchester Fitch. 

J.imes J. Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fo.x. 

Hon. Chas. .9. Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 

Dr. E. R. L. Gould. 

George J. Gould. 

Maf.-Gcn. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. Edward AI. Grout. 

Ahner S. Haight. 

EduK Hagnman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. .4. Hearn. 

Tames A. Hearn. 

•Peter Cooler Hewitt. 

Hon. ir,tr>-en //ii;/ey. 

Hon. Da-id B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel J'erplanck Hoff- 
man. 

Tames P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Honian 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Hovt. 

Dr. T.eRoy" Hubbard. 

Gen. Tlios. H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

Archer M. Huntinfiton. 

T. O. Huntting. 

.4 u gust F. J ace act. 

Col. William Jay. 



Jacob Katz. 

Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. JCetcham. 

Gen. Horalin C. King. 

Albert E. Kleinert. 

Dr. George F. Kunz. 

Dr. John LaFarge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

Frederick S. Lamb. 

Homer Lee. 

Charles W. Lefler. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss. 

Dr. Henry M. l.eipsiger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Tlon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 

Herman T^ivingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

TTon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seth Low. 

R. I'ulton I^udlow. 

Hon. .Arthur MacArlhur. 

William A. Marble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook. 

Col. John J. McCook. 

Donald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Com. Jacob 1 1'. MilUr. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 
Ogden Mills. 
J. Picrpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
Wm. C. Muschenheim. 
Nathan Newman. 
C. H. Xiehaus. 
Ludwig Nissen. 
Hon. I^ewis Nixon. 
Chas. R. Norman. 
//#« .More^an /. O'Brien. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
Prof. Henry F. Osborn. 
Wm. Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'SuUivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
CIrrel .\. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bavard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Rowland Pell. 
Han. Geo. IV. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 



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479 



George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Rt. Rev. Henry C. Pot- 
ter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley, 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gen. Clias. /•'. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W. Sackctt. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Salterlee 

Chas. A. .Schermerhorn. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren. 

Jacob H. Schiff. 

Prest. Jacob G. Schur- 
man. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Isaac N. Stligman. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. ?enner. 

Hon. Fred^k. W. Seivard. 



Hon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 

/. Edward Simmins. 

John \V. Simpson. 

E. \'. Skinner. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Wm. L. Stone. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sufro. 

Stevenson Taylor. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Spencer Trash. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lt.-Com. Aaron Vander- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 
[Names of Trustees in italics 



Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke. 

Warner Van Norden. 

IVm. B. Van Rensselaer. 

John R. Van Wormer. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

Edward Wells. Jr. 

Charles W. Wetmore 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

J. Du Pratt White. 

Fred C. Whitnev. 

Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Charles B. Wolffrani. 

Hon. Joseph S. Wood. 

Stewart L. Woodford. 

Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 

W. E. WonlVv 

Tames A. Wright. 

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MAYORS OF CITIES* 

Albany Hon. Charles H. Gaus. 

Amsterdam 

Auburn Hon. C. .4ugust Koenig. 

Binghamton Hon. C. M. Slaus v. 

Buffalo Hon. James N. Adam. 

Cohoes Hon. M. D. Hanson. 

Corning 

Cortland 

Dunkirk 

Elmira 

Ftilton 

Geneva Hon. Arthur P. Rose. 

Glens Falls 

Gloversville /Yo>i. Frederick M. Young. 

Hornell 

Hudson Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Tthaca 

Jamestown Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 

Johnstown 

Tvineston 

Little Falls 

Lockport //f«. Wiiliam H. Barker. 

Middletown 

Mount Vernon 

Newburgh Hon. Benjamin McClung. 

New Rochelle Hon. George G. Raymond. 

New York Hon. George B. McClellan. 

Niagara Falls 

North Tonawanda 

Ogdensburg 

Olean 

Oneida 

Oswego 

Plattsburgh 

Poughkeepsie Hon. John K. Sague. 

Rensselaer 

Rochester Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 

Rome 

Schenectady 

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Syracuse 

Tonawanda 

Troy Hon. Elias P. Mann. 

ITtica 

Watertown lion. Francis M. Hugo. 

Watervliet '!on. Daniel P. Qttinn. 

Yonkers Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

PRESIDENTS OF VILLAGES t 

Athens 

Castleton Hon. John T. Flynn. 

Catskill Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Cold Spring 

Corinth 

Cornwall 

Coxsackie 

Croton-on-Hudson Hon. Clarence E. Powell. 

Dobbs Ferry Hon. Lyman C . French. 

Fishkill TTon. James H. Doyle. 

Fishkill Landing Hon. Irving J. Justus. 

Fort Edward TTon. James F. T'itzGerald. 

Green Tsland TTon. Robert B. Waters. 

Hastings-on-Hudson Hon. F. G. Zinsser. 

Haverstraw 

Trvington 

Matteawan TTon. Roswell S. Judson. 

Mechanicvillc 

North Tarrytown Hon. John Wirth. 

Nyack Hon. Horace W. Boyd. 

Ossining 

Peekskill 

Piermont 

Red Hook 

Rhinebeck 

Sandy Hill Hon. C. W. Higley. 

Saugerties Hon. A. Rowe. 

Schuvlerville Hon. D. A. Bullard. 

South Glens Falls Hon. Dennis Moynihan. 

South Nyack 

Stillwater 

Tarrytown 

Tivoli Hon. James L. Freeborn. 

Upper Nyack 

Victory Mills 

Wappingers Falls Hon. John L. Hughes. 

Waterford 

West Haverstraw 

tEx-officio, Members of the Commission. 



FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT COUNCILLORS 

Dr. A. Brcdius The Hague. The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Hon. D. Hudig Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr. W. Martin The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W Moes Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 



483 

Military Parade Committee 

Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. Anson G. IMcCook, Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Naval Parade Committee 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 
29 Park Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Const'r Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob W. Miller, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Chas. R. Norman, 

Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Mr. Louis T. Romaine, 

Mr. William J. McKay, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt 
U. S. N., 

Nominations Committee 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Col. John W. Vrooman, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman, 157 W. 79th St., New York. 
Mr. R. P. Bolton, Mr. Wm. L. Stone, 

Mr. Edward DeWitt, Mr. Albert Ulmann. 

Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 

Plan and Scope Committee 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. William Berri. Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan, U.S.N., Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Mr. Robert W. De Forest, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Maj. -Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, U.S.A., Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Wm. McCarroll, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, The President, ex-ofUcio. 

Reception Committee 

Hon. Seth Low, Chairman, 30 East 64th Street, New York. 

Col. John Jacob Astor, Hon. David B. Hill, 

Hon. James M. Beck, Hon. Henry E. Howland, 

Hon. Frank S. Black, Col. William Jay, 

Hon. A. J. Boulton, Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Col. John J. McCook, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. St. Clair McKelway 

Mr. John Claflin, Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, U. S. N., 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. John G. Milburn 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.N., Mr. Ogden Mills, 

Most Rev. John AL Farley. Mr. J. P. Morgan, 

Maj. -Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, Mr. Fordham Morris, 

U. S. A., Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Mr. E. H. Hall, Hon. Alton B. Parker 



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Reception Committee (continued) 

Gen. Horace Porter, Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 

Rt. Rev. H. C. Potter, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Mr. Thos. R. Proctor, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Mr. Wm. Rockefeller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Pres. J. G. Schurman, Hon. William R. Willcox, 

Mr. I. N. Seligman, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 

VerplancK's Point ParK Committee 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

"Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William St., New York. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, The President, ex-ofUcio. 

Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 



485 
Minutes of 

The Commission 

May 6, 1908. 

The annual meeting of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration- 
Commission was held, pursuant to the b3'-lau's and notice 
duly given, at its headquarters in the Tribune Building No 
154 Nassau street. New York City, Wednesday, May 6 
1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present: The President, StCNvart L. Woodford, presiding- 
and Mr. George C. Batcheller. Dr. E. Parmly Brown Mr' 
Frederick R. Cruikshank, Mr. William J. Cur'tis, Air James 
de la Montanye. Mr. John C. Fames, Mr. Theorlore Fitch 
Major-General Frederick D. Grant, U. S A Mr Menry 
E. Gregory, Mr. Abner S. Haight, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Hon. Warren Higle3% Mr. Albert E. Kleinert Dr 
George Frederick Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb. Mr. Charles 
W. Lefler, Rear Admiral George W. Melyille U S N 
Commander Jacob W. Miller, Mr. Bayard L Peck Hon' 
N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr Henry w' 
Sackett Colonel William Gary Sanger, Presirlent Jacob 
Gould Schurman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr George 
R. Sutherland, and General James Grant Wilson. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from AJr Tunis G 

Bergen, Hon. William McCarroll. Mr. Percy B O'Suilivan' 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee and Hon. Timothy L. Woo:!rufr' 

and they were excused. ' 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the last annual meeting, held May 8 1007 
havmg been printed an I sent to all the members,' were 
a])proyed without reading. 



-486 Minutes of the Commission 

President's Annual Report. 
The annual report of the President was read as follows: 

To the ATembers of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 

The printed minutes of the meetings of the Commission, 
the Trustees and the Executive Committee which have been 
sent to every member of the Commission during the past 
year have kept you so fully posted concerning their trans- 
actions that it is not necessary to present to you at this 
annual meeting any extended review of the preparations 
which have been made thus far for the Celebration next 
year. 

When you receive the minutes of the last meeting of the 
Trustees held on April 22d, which are now in the hands of 
the State Printer at Albany, you will have the latest in- 
formation with the exception of one interesting fact of 
which we have received official advice since that date. 

At the last meeting of the Trustees, the revised report of 
the Plan and Scope Committee was adopted upon substan- 
tially the same lines as heretofore laid down. When it was 
found that the Celebration could be moved along one week 
later than originally planned without sacrifice of historical 
propriety, it was done for the better accommodation of the 
public returning from the summer's vacation and to take 
advantage of the probability of better weather. It will 
therefore begin on Saturday, September 25, 1909, and con- 
tinue until and including the following Saturday, Oct. 2d, 
with the possible addition of an " Old Home Week " for 
the particular bepefit of the local communities along the 
upper part of the Hudson Valley. 

Briefly stated, the plan is as follows, subject to such 
changes of detail as may be deemed advisable as the date 
of celebration approaches : 

Saturday and Sunday, September 25th and 26th, will be 
devoted to religious services. 

On Monday, the 27th. there will be a general decoration 
of buildings along the Hudson ; the rendezvous of Ameri- 
can and foreign naval vessels at New York, the placing of 
the Half Moon and Clermont reproductions in line; the 
reception of official guests ; and in the evening a Music 
Festival. 

Tuesday, the 28th, will be Historical Day throughout the 
state in universities, colleges, and schools, and commemora- 
tions by all learned, historical and patriotic societies. In 
New York, official literary exercises will be held in the 



May 6, 1908 487 

Metropolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall and possibly 
the Brooklyn Academy. 

On Wednesday, September 29th, there will be an impos- 
ing military parade in New York. 

Thursday, the 30th, will be devoted to the dedication of 
public parks, monuments, tablets and other memorials in 
New York and elsewhere, particularly along the Hudson 
River. In the evening there will be an official banquet to 
invited guests in New York City. 

On Friday, it is planned to have two naval parades, one 
starting from New York and one from Albany, meeting 
at Newburgh, where interesting exercises will be held. 

On Saturday, the two parades will return to their re- 
spective starting points, with illuminations and festivities 
in Albany and New York. In New York in the evening, 
there will be a Carnival Parade of great beauty. Saturday 
will also be the Children's Day, with open air fetes. 

From Sunday, October 3d, to Saturday, the 9th, it has 
been sugegsted that a series of Old Home Days be held 
at the principal places north of Newburgh. This idea has 
so much to commend it that it will probably receive favor- 
able consideration if it proves practicable. 

Since the last meeting of the Trustees, communications 
have been received from Jonkheer R. de Marees van Swin- 
deren, until recently Minister Plenipotentiary from the 
Netherlands to the United States, but now Dutch Minister 
of Foreign Affairs, and from Jonkheer Roell, Vice Admiral 
of the Royal Dutch Navy retired and Aide-de-Camp to 
Her Majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands, informing us 
that a committee has been formed in Holland with a view 
to participating in the Celebration, by presenting the Com- 
mission with the reproduction of the Half Moon. This 
testimony of friendship from the people of the Country to 
which the City and State of New York in particular and 
the United States as a whole are bound by warmly cherished 
ties of blood, tradition and affection is most gratifying, and 
most cordially reciprocated. (Applause.) 

The Commission's Committee on Naval Parade has made 
a painstaking investigation into the subject of the Clermont, 
and under authority given at the last meeting of the Trus- 
tees_ is having plans prepared according to the most authen- 
tic information attainable. The contract for construction 
has not yet been let; and if, by the time the plans are 
ready, some institution or body of men representing par- 
ticularly the maritime interests of New York should be 



488 Minutes of the Commission 

inspired by the example of the people of Holland to as- 
sume the expense of building the Clermont facsimile and 
giving it to this Commission, the generous act would reflect 
a public spirit entirely characteristic of the leaders of the 
maritime interests of this great port. 

Letters have been sent to the President of the United 
States respectfully asking him to order the presence of 
American naval vessels and to invite the Foreign Powers 
also to send naval and personal representatives. The 
President has deferred action upon these requests until he 
could be advised that the State of New York has made 
a sufficient appropriation of funds to ensure the celebration. 
The recent legislature has reappropriated $12,500. the un- 
expended balance of our preliminary appropriation of 1906, 
and has appropriated $150,000 additional with the prospect 
of a still further appropriation next year. The appro- 
priation is emlx)died in the Supply Bill which is now in 
the Governor's hands for consideration. As soon as it is 
approved, the President will be advised and it is probable 
that the foreign invitations will promptly be issued. 

In all other respects, the preparations are well in hand 
and give promise of a celebration worthy of the events 
to be commemorated and of the people commemorating 
them. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Stewart L. Woodford, 

President. 

The report was received and ordered printed in the 
minutes. 

Vote of Tliaiiks for the Half Moon. 
President Schurman of Cornell University, spoke in high 
terms of the generous purpose of the people of Holland 
to present to the Commission the model of the Half Moon, 
as communicated by the distinguished representatives of the 
government of the Netherlands, Vice-Admiral Roell and 
Minister van Swinderen, and announced by the President 
of the Commission in his annual report ; and he moved 
that the President be requested to convey to the people 
of Holland the assurances of the Commission's grateful 
appreciation. Carried. 



May 6, 1908 489 

Treasurer's Annual Report. 

The annual report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. SeUg- 
man, was read as follows : 

To the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission : 

Chapter 325 of the Laws of 1906, incorporating this Com- 
mission, appropriated $25,000 for the purposes of the act. 
Of that amount, $12,500 was drawn for use and deposited 
to the credit of the Commission in New York, leaving 
$12,500 in the State Treasury. 

Of the $12,500 drawn, the sum of $6,049.32 has been 
disbursed on approved vouchers since the chartering of the 
Commission two years ago, leaving a cash balance on 
deposit amounting to $6,450.68. Against this are charge- 
able vouchers which have been approved but not yet paid, 
amounting to $593.21, leaving an available cash balance of 
$5,857.47 on May 6, 1908. 

In addition to the foregoing receipts and disbursements, 
we have received $189.49 interest on deposits, which we 
have remitted to the State Treasurer in compliance with 
law. 

During the past year we have received $81.00 from 
Trustees of the Commission toward the Subscription Fund 
for the payment of portions of the bills for printing not 
done by the State Printer and not allowed by the Comp- 
troller. Of this sum, $71.82 has been disbursed for the 
purpose named, leaving a cash balance of $9.18 in the 
Subscription Fund. There remains chargeable against this 
fund an unpaid bill of $25.34. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Election of Trustees. 
The election of Trustees for the ensuing year being in 
order, Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, 
laid before the Commission the report already presented to 
the Trustees on March 25th, a copy of which had been 
sent to each member of the Commission with the notice 
of the annual meeting under date of April 15th. He 
stated that the Committee renominated all the present 
Trustees. 



490 



Minutes of the Commission 



The President then called for further nominations from 
the floor. None being made, Dr. Kunz moved that the 
Secretary be instructed to cast a single ballot in behalf of 
the meeting for the persons named in the report of the 
Nominating Committee. The motion was duly seconded 
and was carried unanimously. 

The Secretary having cast the ballot as directed, the 
President announced the unanimous election of the follow- 
ing named gentlemen as Trustees for the ensuing year : 



Mr. John G. Agar 
Hon. James K. Apgar 
Col. John Jacob Astor 
Col. Franklin Bartlett 
Hon. James M. Beck 
Mr. August Belmont 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Berri 
Hon. Frank S. Black 
Hon. A. J. Boulton 
Mr. George \'. Brower 
Hon. J. Rider Cady 
Mr. Henry W. Cannon 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke 
Hon. Grover Cleveland 
Rear Admiral J. B. Coghlan 
Mr. Paul D. Cravath 
Mr. William J. Curtis 

Robert Fulton Cutting 
George G. DeWitt 
John C. Fames 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett 
Mr. Stuyvesant Fish 
Throdore Fitch 
Thomas Powell Fowler 
Charles S. Francis 
George J. Gould 
Gen. F. D. Grant 
Henry E. Gregory 
Edward Hagaman Hall 
George A. Hearn 
Warren Higley 



Mr. 
Mr 
Mr, 



Mr. 

Mr. 

Hon 

Mr. 

Maj, 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Hon 



Hon. David B. Hill 
Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard 
Hon. Henry Hudson 
Mr. August F. Jaccaci 
Col. William Jay 
Gen. Horatio C. King 
Dr. George F. Kunz 
Dr. John LaFarge 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger 
Hon. Seth Low 
Hon. William McCarroll 
Mr. William J. McKay 
Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville 
Hon. John G. Milburn 
Com. Jacob W. Miller 
Mr. Frank D. Millett 
Mr. Ogden Mills 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan 
Hon. Levi P. Morton 
Mr. Wm. C. Muschenheim 
Mr. Ludwig Nissen 
Hon. Morgan J. OT>rien 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
Mr. John E. Parsons 
Hon. Samuel Parsons 
Mr. Bayard L. Peck 
Hon. George W. Perkins 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Gen. Horace Porter 
Hon. Thomas R. Proctor 
Hon. C. A. Pugslev 



May 6, 1908 491 

Mr. Louis C. Raegener Mr. James Stillman 

Mr. Herman Ridder Hon. Oscar S. Straus 

Mr. William Rockefeller Mr. Spencer Trask 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe Mr. Aaron X^anderbilt 

Mr. Thomas F. Ryan Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer 

Pres. J. G. Schurman Col. John W. Vrooman 

Mr. Gustav H. Schwab Dr. Samuel B. Ward 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman Mr. Edmund Wetmore 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Hon. Andrew D. \Miite 

Mr. J. Edward Simmons Hon. William R. \A'illcox 

Mr. Nelson S. Spencer Mr. Charles R. Wilson 

Mr. James Speyer Gen. James Grant W^ilson 

Hon. John H. Starin Gen. Stewart L. Woodford 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson Hon. Timothy L. Woodrufif. 

Fifteen Banquets Proposed. \ 

Miscellaneous business being in order. Dr. Brown said 
that he would like to lay before the Commission the ques- 
tion of holding fifteen banquets instead of one during the 
celebration next year. He belieyed that every distinguished 
guest, every officer on every ship, and every commissioned 
officer with every troop, whether they came from the 
United States or Terre del Fuego or any other place, should 
be given a place at a banquet, and that nothing short of 
fifteen banquets at fifteen leading hotels would meet the 
situation. Besides, there were thousands of other men who 
should have the right to enter one of those banquets and 
suitable opportunity should be given to them. Such a ban- 
quet with wine, he estimated, would cost $7.50 a cover; 
and if the Commission would announce that reputable 
citizens who would send $15 would be permitted to attend 
and bring one guest, it would receive enough applications 
to test the capacity of all of the leading hotels. 

Judge Higley inquired whether, if such plan were 
adopted, fifteen banquets would be adequate to meet the 
demand. 

Dr. Brown replied that if they were not, the number 
could be increased. 



492 Minutes of the Commission, May 6, 1908 

Without further discussion, on motion of Mr. Ridder, 
the subject was referred to the Committee on Official 
Banquet. 

Commemorative Coinage and Postage Stamps. 
Dr. Kunz moved that the Committee on Memorials be 
requested to consider and report on the advisabilit}- of 
recommending to the Secretary of the Treasury the minting 
of coins from special dies next year in commemoration of 
the events to be celebrated, and to the Postmaster-General 
the issuing of specially designed postage stamps for the 
same purpose. Such coins and stamps, used by millions 
of people, would be invaluable mediums for directing pub- 
lic attention in all parts of the country to the historical 
significance of the year and fully popularizing the work of 
the Commission. At the same time, the specimens pre- 
served by thousands of stamp collectors and numismatists 
in this and foreign countries would constitute a permanent 
record for generations to come. Special coins and stamps 
had been issued at the time of the Jamestown Exposition 
in 1907, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, the 
Columbian Celebration in 1893, and similar commemora- 
tions, and had proved of great value and interest. He 
suggested that the coin be modeled on the lines of the 
Columbian Exposition half dollar, the Isabella quarter, or 
the Louisiana Purchase gold dollar. Preferably, it should 
not exceed twenty-five cents in face value, and if supplied 
at that price and sold for fifty cents or a dollar, the Com- 
mission might derive a substantial revenue from it. Both 
coins and stamps sliould bear the portrait of Hudson or 
Fulton, or a representatijon of the Half Moon or the 
Clermont. 

The motion to refer the two subjects to the Committee 
on. Memorials was carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



493 
Minutes of 



Trustees' Meeting 



May 27, 1908. 

The twenty-sixth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau Street, New York, 
Wednesday, May 2"], 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present: The President, Stewart L. Woodford, in the 
chair; and Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Hon. William Berri, Mr. George V. Brower, Read Admiral 
J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Henry 
E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. Hon. Henry- 
Hudson, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. 
Charles R. Lamb, Hon. Benjamin McClung, Mr. William 
J. McKay, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. 
Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. 
Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Col. John W. 
Vrooman and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Henry W. 
Cannon, Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman. 
Col. William Jay, Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. William 
McCarroll, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. John E. 
Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, President Jacob Gould 
Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Hon. John H. Starin, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. Aaran Vanderbilt, Dr. 
Samuel B. Ward, and Mr. Charles R. Wilson, and they 
were excused. 



494 Minutes of Trustees 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the last meeting of thie Trustees, having 
been printed and sent to all the members of the Commission, 
were approved as printed. 

Treasurer's Report. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N^. Seligman, was 
read as follows : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 

I have the honor to report the state of the treasury on 
May 27, 1908, as follows : 

STATE FUND. 
DEBIT. 

To balance on hand, April 22, 1908 $6,964 96 

CREDIT. 

By paid on approved vouchers : 

63. E. H. Hall, disbursements ^22 29 

E. EI. Hall, salary for February. . 250 00 

$2^2 29 

64. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 23 29 

65. Henry Romeike, press clippings, January. . . i 17 

66. Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing i 60 

67. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 26 44 

68. State of New York, interest on deposit. . . . 189 49 

69. E. H. Hall, disbursements $16 30 

E. H. Hall, salary for Alarch 250 00 

266 30 

70. De-Fi Manufacturing Co., carbon paper. ... 3 50 

71. John Polhemus Printing Co., stationery... 4 75 

72. Henry Romeike, clippings in February. ... in 
y;^. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 4 63 

74. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 27 53 

75. E. H. Hall, disbursements $22 16 

E. H. Hall, salary for April.... 250 00 

272 16 



May 27, 1908 495 

76. Henry Romeike, clippings in March $1 98 

'jj. Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing 6 75 

78. J. B. Lyon, Co., printing 4 5^ 

Total Credit $1,107 49 

Total Dehit 6,964 96 

Balance on hand, ]\Iay 27, 1908. ..... $5,857 47 



SUBSCRIPTION FUND. 
DEBIT. 



To balance on hand, April 27, 1908 $9 18 

To cash received from Henry W. Sackett 16 16 

$25 34 

CREDIT. 

By paid John Polhemus Printing Co., on ap- 
proved voucher for balance due on portions 
of printing bills disallowed by comptroller. . $25 34 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and referred to the Auliting 
Committee for approval. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee : 

New York Law Journal, notice of meeting. ... $2 50 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing 25 97 

Heury Romeike, clippings in April i 05 

Joseph Llawkes, copying photos of Dutch ships. 3 50 

Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing i 35 

John Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 6 80 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $33 95 

E. H. Hall, salary for May 250 00 

^ 283 95 

$325 12 



496 Minutes of Trustees 

Election of Officers. 

The election of officers for the ensuing year being in 
^3rder, the President asked Vice-President Seward to take 
the chair. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations, 
presented the fohowing report : 

To the Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission : 

The Committee on Nominations hereby nominates to the 
Board of Trustees for election as officers of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission, recommending their elec- 
tion, the following Trustees, viz : 

FOR PRESIDENT, 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. 

FOR VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Maj.-Gen. Frederick D. Grant Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

FOR TREASURER, 

]\Ir. L'^aac N. Seligman. 

FOR SECRETARY, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 

Air. Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Theodore Fitch, Chairman. 
W. J. Curtis, 
John W. Vrooman. 

Committee on No}iiinations. 



May 27, 1908 497 

The Vice-President called for other nominations by the 
Trustees, and there being none, Mr. Berri moved that the 
nominations be closed. Carried. 

Mr. Berri moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast 
a single ballot in behalf of the meeting for the persons 
named in the report of the Nominating Committee. The 
motion was duly seconded and was carried unanimously. 

The Secretary having cast the ballot as directed, the Vice- 
President declared the nominees unanimously elected. 

President Woodford, resuming the chair, said that he 
was deeply touched by his re-election and he hoped to be 
spared to see the consummation of the plans which the 
Commission was making. His service at the head of this 
body was one of the pleasantest duties in the course of 
his life. He thanked each member for his loyal support 
and earnest work, from which he confidently predicted a 
satisfactory celebration next year. 

Abominations for Appoiiitjucut on the Coiniiiissioii. 
Mr. Fitch also reported from the Nominations Commit- 
tee the names of Hon. Richard Young, of No. 87 Lincoln 
Road, Brooklyn, leather merchant and former Park Com- 
missioner; and Mr. George Wilson, of No. 200 Greene 
Avenue, Brooklyn, statistician and Secretary of the New 
York Chamber of Commerce, and moved that they be 
recommended to Mayor McClellan for appointment on this 
Commission. Carried. 



Appointments by tJic Mayor. 

The Secretary read a letter from Mayor McClellan's 
secretary, dated April 28, 1908, communicating the appoint- 
ment of Dr. E. R. L. Gould, Hon. Charles A. Schieren and 
Mr. John R. \^an Wormer in accordance witli the recom- 
mendation of the Trustees. 

The letter was ordered on file and the Secretary directed 
to add the names of the appointees to the roll of members. 



498 Minutes of Trustees 

Appointment of A'czv Jersey Members Delayed. 
The Secretary stated that he recently inquired of the 
Secretary to Governor Hughes if the Governor had received 
the nominations from Governor Stokes of New Jersey, 
mentioned on page 389 of the Minutes of the Commission, 
and was informed that they had heen received but that 
Governor Hughes had been so preoccupied that he had been 
unable to take the matter up. 

Mayors and Tillage Presidents Added to Commission. 

The Secretary reported that on May 6, 1908, Governor 
Hughes had signed the bill making the mayors of all the 
cities of the State ex officio members and Trustees of the 
Commission and the presidents of villages in the Hudson 
Valley ex officio members of the Commission, the law being 
Chapter 217 of the Laws of 1908. Its text, which is sub- 
stantially as recommended by the Trustees (see page 417 
of the Minutes), is as follows: 

An Act to increase the number of members and trustees of 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 

The People of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 

Section i. The members and trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission, as designated by chapter 
three hundred and twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hun- 
dred and six, are increased in number by adding to and 
including as such members and trustees by virtue of their 
office the persons, severally and respectively, who from time 
to time and for the time being shall hold municipal office as 
follows in the following cities of the state, and in the fol- 
lowing villages upon the Hudson river : The mayors of the 
cities of Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn, Binghamton, Buflfalo, 
Cohoes, Corning, Cortland, Dunkirk, Elmira, Fulton, 
Geneva, Glens Falls, Gloversville, Hornell, Hudson, Ithaca, 
Jamestown, Johnstown, Kingston, Little Falls, Lockport, 
Middletown, Moimt Vernon, Newburgh, New Rochelle, 
New York, Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Ogdensburg, 
Olean, Oneida, Oswego, Plattsburg, Poughkeepsie, Rens- 
selaer, Rochester, Rome, Schenectady. Syracuse, Tona- 
wanda, Troy, L^tica, Watertown, Watervliet, Yonkers, and 
of any city which may hereafter be incorporated, all of 



May 27, 1908 499 

whom shall be members and trustees of the commission, 
and also the presidents of the villages of Athens, Castleton, 
Catskill, Cold Spring, Corinth, Cornwall, Coxsackie, Croton- 
on-Hu(lson, Dobbs Ferry, Fishkill, Fishkill Landing, Fort 
Edward, Green Island, Hastings-on-Hudson, Haverstraw, 
Irvington, Matteawan, Mechanicville, North Tarrytown, 
Nyack, Ossining, Peekskill, Piermont, Red Hook, Rhine- 
beck, Sandy Hill, Saugerties, Schuylerville, South Glens 
Falls, South Nyack, Stillwater, Tarrytown, Tivoli, Upper 
Nyack, Victory Mills, Wappingers Falls, Waterford, and 
West Haverstraw, who shall be members of the commission. 
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

The Secretary stated that as soon as he could secure a 
certified copy of the act from the Secretary of State, he 
had, under date of May 20, notified the 46 mayors and 38 
presidents of their appointment and had received acknowl- 
edgments and assurances of cordial co-operation from 19 
mayors and 18 presidents as follows : 

MAYORS. 

Albany, Hon. Chas. H. Gaus. 
Auburn, Hon. C. August Koenig. 
Binghamton, Hon. C. M. Slauson. 
Bufifalo, Hon. James N. Adam. 
Cohoes, Hon. M. D. Hanson. 
Geneva, Hon. Arthur P. Rose. 
Gloversville, Hon. Frederick M. Young. 
Hudson, Hon. Henry Hudson. 
Jamestown, Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 
Lockport. Hon. Wm. H. Barker. 
Newburgh, Hon. Benjamin McClung. 
New Rochelle, Hon. George G. Raymond. 
New York, Flon. George B. McClellan. 
Poughkeepsie, Hon. James K. Sague. 
Rochester, Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 
Troy, Hon. Elias P. Mann. 
Watertown, Hon. Francis M. Hugo. 
Watervliet, Hon. Daniel P. Ouinn. 
Yonkers, Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

VILLAGE PRESIDENTS. 

Castleton, Hon. John T. Flynn. 
Catskill, Hon. Chas. A. Elliott. 
Croton-on-Hudson, Hon. Clarence E. Powell. 



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Dobbs Ferry, Hon. Lyman C. French. 
Fishkill, Hon. James H. Doyle. 
Fishkill Landing, Hon. Irving J. Justus. 
Fort Edward, Hon. James F. Fitz Gerald. 
Green Island, Hon. Robert B. Waters. 
Hastings-on-Hudson, Hon. F. G. Zinsser. 
Matteawan, Hon. Roswell S. Judson. 
North Tarrytown, Hon. John Wirth. 
Nyack, Hon. Horace W. Boyd. 
Sandy Hill, Hon. C. W. Higley. 
Saugerties, Hon. A. Rowe. 
Schuylerville, Hon. D. A. Bullard. 
South Glens Falls, Hon. Dennis Moynihan. 
Tivoli. Hon. James L. Freeborn. 
Wappingers Falls, Hon. John L. Hughes. 

Half Moon Correspondence. 

The Assistant Secretary laid before the meeting the fol- 
lowing correspondence concerning the construction of the 
Half Moon in Holland which had been received or sent 
since the last meeting of the Trustees: 

1. Letter dated The Hague, April i8, 1908, from 
Jonkheer Roell, Vice Admiral Retired of the Royal Dutch 
Navy and Aide de Camp to Her Majesty the Queen of the 
Netherlands, to the Assistant Secretary, stating that a com- 
mittee was being formed in Holland to co-operate with this 
Commission by constructing the Half Moon and asking our 
views as to her design. 

2. Letter dated New York, May 4, 1908, to Admiral 
Roell from the Assistant Secretary, acknowledging receipt 
of the foregoing. 

3. Letter dated New York, May 12, 1908, to Admiral 
Roell by Admiral Coghlan, giving at length information 
possessed by the Committee on Naval Parade concerning 
the Half Moon. 

4. Letter dated The Hague, April 23, 1908 from 
lonkheer R. de Marees van Swinderen, Minister of Foreign 
Affairs, stating that the committee of Hollanders had been 
formed to build the Half Moon. 

5. Letter dated New York, May 4, 1908, to Minister van 
Swinderen from the Assistant Secretary, acknowledging re- 
ceipt of his letter. 

6. Letter dated New York, May 26, 1908, to Minister 
van Swinderen bv the President and Secretary of the Com- 



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mission in accordance with resolution of the Commission 
(see page 488) offering the compHments and expressing the 
appreciation of the Commission. 

It was voted that letters No. i, 3. 4 and 6 be printed in 
full in the minutes. They are as follows : 

Letter from J lee Admiral Roe! I. 

The Hague, April the i8th, 1908. 

To Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Assistant Secretary to the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee, 

Dear Sir : As you may know there is a committee in 
formation in Holland whose object is to make their country- 
men participate in the Hudson-Fulton next year, by present- 
ing a model of the " Halve Maan." (the vessel used by 
Hudson in 1609) to the American Central Committee. — As 
you may know there is no model of that ship existing and 
now the Dutch should very much like to have a drawing 
representing the idea your committee has formed of what 
the " Halve Maan " has been and some information there- 
about. 

We should be very well able to carry out our own idea 
of the vessel by constructing a ship of 80 tons burden after 
another model of the period, but we are afraid that in doing 
so we might disappoint the American people, wdio, no doubt, 
have formed an idea of their own as to what the Hudson 
vessel was like. Therefore we should be very much in- 
debted to you if you would be so kind as to send us the 
desired information to my address, being as follows : 

Jonkheer Roell, Vice-Admiral Retired of the Royal Dutch 
Navy, A. d. C. to Her Majesty the Queen of the Nether- 
lands, 3 Bosch Street, The Hague. Holland. 

Believe me truly yours. 

J. A. Roell. 

Letter from Rear Admiral Coghlan to Jlee-Adinira! Roell. 

New York. May 12. 1908. 

Jonkheer Roell, Vice-Admiral Retired of the Royal Dutch 
Navy. A. de C. to Her Majesty the Queen of the Neth- 
erlands. 3 Bosch Street. The Hague, The Netherlands. 
Dear Sir : Your favor of April 18, inquiring as to our 
conception of the appearance of Henry Hudson's vessel the 
Half Moon, which has already been acknowledged by our 
Assistant Secretary, has been referred to me as Chairman 



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of the Committee on Naval Parade for a fuller reply. The 
intimation of the generous purpose of your countrymen to 
contribute this interesting feature to the celebration in 1909 
has given the greatest pleasure to our Commission and your 
thoughtful consideration in asking our views is thoroughly 
appreciated. 

In replying to your inc[uiry permit me to say first that 
we feel that your own people have the best facilities for 
forming an idea of the vessel's appearance and we shall be 
satisfied to leave the matter entirely to your judgment. In 
offering the following observations, therefore, it is not with 
a view to constraining you in any respect in which you find 
better authority for your guidance, but rather with the de- 
sire to place at your service such limited knowledge as we 
have on the subject. 

As far as we know, from research in this country and in 
Holland, there exists no contemporary picture of the Half 
Moon. There is, however, we believe, sufficient data for 
determining, 

1. The masting and the rigging, 

2. The tonnage ; and 

3. The dimensions, 

which will enable your ship-builders to reconstruct the ves- 
sel with substantial accuracy. 

AS TO THE RIGGING. 

We append hereto extracts from Robert Juet's journal of 
Hudson's Voyage in 1609 Containing references to the 
rigging, which clearly indicate that she had the following 
features : 

A Bow-sprit and Sprit-sail: Citations Xos. 2, 15 and 2^2 
refer to the vessel's " sprit-sayle." This we understand 
from old prints to have been a square sail attached to a 
yard hung from the bow-sprit, and not what is now called 
a " sprit-sail." 

A Fore-mast and Sail: Citations Xos. i, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12. 
13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20. 22, 23, 26, 28 and 29 refer to the 
fore-corse or fore-sayle, fore-mast and fore-yard. 

A Fore-top-mast and Sail : Citation No. 29 refers to a 
" fore-top-sayle,'' and citations Nos. 11, 18, 20, and 32 refer 
to " top-sayles " in the plural number, indicating top-sails 
on more than one mast. 

A Main-mast and Sail : Our authority for these is found 
in citations Nos. 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 20, 22, 23, 26 and t.2. 
which refer to the mayne-sayle or mayne-corse. 



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A Main-top-niast and Sail: See citations Xos. 2, 19 and 
29. 

A Mizzen-mast and Sail: Citation Xo. 23, referring to 
the " misen " fortunately enables us to determine that the 
vessel had a third mast and sail. From the type of the 
period, we assume the mizzen mast to have been latteen 
rigged. Whether it had a square top-sail as represented in 
some vessels of the period we are left in doubt, as there is 
no specific reference to a mizzen-top-sail. 

It may be mentioned in passing that Air. Joseph A. Imhof 
of this city, a painter of Dutch ships, has expressed to one 
of our members the idea that the Half Moon had but two 
masts, and that the terms " fore-mast " and " rnain-mast " 
were used interchangeably in those days. As ]\Ir. Imhof 
has had some correspondence with Mr. C. G. 't Hooft, 
Director of the Fodor ^Museum, Amsterdam, concerning a 
two-masted model which Mr. Imhof has, we beg to say 
that we cannot agree with Mr. Imhof for the reason that 
citations Nos. 4, 10, 13, 20, 23, 26 and 29, refer to both the 
fore-sail and the main-sail in the same paragraphs, indicat- 
ing that they were not identical. Air. 't Hooft has very 
courteously sent to Mr. August F. Jaccaci, a Trustee of 
our Commission, two photographs from a rare profile of 
Amsterdam in 1606, which is in the Rijks Museum, showing 
ships of that period, and he expresses the " conviction that 
the Halve Maan was a very small 3-masted vessel." With 
this we agree. 

When Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, our Assistant Secre- 
tary, visited the Rijks Archief at the Hague in igo6, Dr. J. 
d'Hulla showed him a chart of a voyage by another Dutch 
navigator about the period of Hudson's voyage, showing 
among the profiles a " Jacht " with the number of masts 
here indicated. 

Bonnets: That the Half Moon had an equipment of 
bonnets is indicated by citations Nos. 5, 6, 18 and 21. 

TONNAGE. 

As to the tonnage of the Half Moon, the only question 
is in regard to the method of comouting tonnage at the 
beginning of the seventeenth century. The " Uitloop 
Bookje '" or Sailing Book of the East" India Co. from 1603 
to 1700, and the " Memoriael " or Memorandum Book of 
the East India Co. for the same period leave no doubt about 
the number of tons. Both refer to the " Yacht Halve Maen, 
40 lasts," (or 80 tons). 



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As to the method of reckoning tonnage in Holland in 1609 
your own ship-builders will be able to judge better than we. 
We know, not only that the method of measuring tonnage 
in the 17th century differed from the method in use to-day, 
but also that there was much variation between the methods 
of dift'erent builders. 

On pages 153 and 154 of part i of "Ancient and Modern 
Ships " by Sir George C. V. Holmes, published in 1900 by 
Chapman & Hall at No. 1 1 Henrietta street, Covent Garden, 
London, there is a brief account of the ancient methods of 
computing tonnage in England, but no reference to the sub- 
ject of Dutch tonnage. 

In " La Costruzioni Xavali e I'Arte della Navigazione al 
tempo di Cristoforo Colombo " by Enrico Alberto d'Albertis, 
p'ublished at Rome in 1893, there is a learned discussion of 
the tonnage and dimensions of Columbus' Caravels, but 
nothing to thnow light on Dutch tonnage. It is possible, 
however, that this work may convey a helpful hint as to the 
method of archaeological investigation to be pursued con- 
cerning the Half Moon. 

DIMENSIONS AVn PROPORTIONS 

Draft: There is only one feature of the dimensions of the 
Half Moon concerning which we have any definite informa- 
tion, and that is her draft. In citation No. 32 from Juet's 
Journal of Hudson's voyage, we are informed that the Half 
Moon floated in SjA feet of water. In citation No. 24, we 
are informed that in order to explore Delaware Bay it was 
necessary to have a pinnace rlrawing only 4 or 5 feet. It 
is evident, therefore, that th.e Half Moon drew less than 
8^ feet and more than 5 feet. 

As to the length and breadth, we believe that you will be 
able to get the proportions from tynes of the period and 
deduce the actual dimensions from the tonnage. 

Mr. 't Hooft expresses the ooinion that the Half Moon 
measured about 60 x 14x6 feet (Amsterdam measurement). 
Upon the accuracy of this estimate we are unable to express 
an opinion. 

MINOR DETAILS. 

Rudder Post and Cabin: We call your attention. to cita- 
tion No. 30 from Juet's Tournal, which indicates that the 
cabin was in the stern ; that the stern-post was probablv 
flush with the overhan'^- • and tb.at the rudder-post extended 
up at least to the level of the cabin windows on the outside 
of the stern. 



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Port-holes : The heaviest ordnance mentioned in Juet's 
journal is the " falcon " (see citation 31). This was a small 
cannon, carrying a ball weighing 2 povmds or less. There 
is nothing however to indicate whether this piece was fired 
through a port-hole or from the deck. 

Gallery: Mr. 't Hooft writes: "A yacht had no gallery 
like the bigger ships." This question, and others such as 
whether the Half Moon had a " galleon " at her bow, we 
believe you can readilv determine by studying types of the 
period. 

Ratlines : Citation 25 records that the writer of the 
journal went to the top-mast head twice the same day to 
make observations, which would indicate that there were 
ratlines on the top-mast shrouds for convenience in going 
alofi:. 

Many of our ideas about the construction, masting, rig- 
ging, etc., are based upon the vignette contained in the 
preface chart of the book " Henry Hudson, the Navigator" 
by C. M. Asher (Hakluyt Society No. 27), London, 1859, 
and upon the plates and descriptions contained in the book 
" Aeloude en Hedendaegsche Scheeps-Bouw en Bestier " by 
Nicolaes Witsen, Amsterdam, 1671. Both of these books 
can doubtless be found in the libraries of Amsterdam or 
the Hague. 

CITATIONS FROM JUEt's JOURNAL. 

Following are brief citations from Robert Juet's journal 
of " The Third Voyage of Master Henry Hudson toward 
Nova Zembla," etc., in 1609, before referred to : 

1. (March.) The sixth and twentieth, was a great storme 
at the North North-east, and North-east. Wee started away 
South-west afore the wind with our fore-course abroad : 
For wee were able to maintayne no more sayles, it blew so 
vehemently. 

2. (March.) The seuen and twentieth . . . We set our 
mayne-sayle, sprit-sayle and our mayne-top-sayle, and held 
on our course all night, hauing faire weather. 

3. (June.) The fourth . . . the wind so increasing that 
wee were enforced to take in our top-sayle. 

4. (June.) The fift, storme weather, and much wind at 
South, and South by East, so that at foure of the clocke in 
the morning we tooke in our fore-sayle and lay a try with 
our mayne-corse and tryed away West North-west foure 
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5. (June.) The eight, stormy weather, the wind variable 
between West and North-west, much wind : At eight of the 
clocke wee tooke ofif our Bonnets. 

6. (June.) The twelfth ... At eight of the clock at 
night we took off our Bonets, the wind increasing. 

7. (June.) The fifteenth, we had a great storme, and 
spent ouer-boord our fore-mast, bearing our fore-corse low 
set. 

8. (June.) The sixteenth, we were forced to trie with 
our mayne sayle by reason of the vnconstant weather. 

9. (June.) The nineteenth, in the fore-noone faire 
weather and calme. In the morning we set the piece of our 
fore-mast and set our fore corse. 

10. (June.) The one and twentieth . . . much wind and 
a great Sea. We split our fore saile at ten of the clocke ; 
then we laid it a trie with our mayne sayle and continued 
so all day. 

11. (June.) The three and twentieth ... so stift'e a gale 
that we were forced to take our top-sayle ... At eight 
of the clocke at night wee tooke in our top-saylcs, and laid 
it a trie with our mayne-sayle. 

12. (June.) The foure and twentieth, . . . we set our 
foresaile. 

13. (June.) The seuen and twentieth, very much winde 
and a soare storme . . . wee tooke in our fore-corse, and 
laid it a trie with our mavne-corse low set. 

14. (June.) The eight and twentieth ... we lay a trie 
to the Southward till eight of the clocke in the morning. 
Then we set our fore-corse. 

15. (July.) The fourth . . . Then we tooke in our top- 
sayle and sprit-sayle. 

16. (July.) The eighteenth, . . . We went on shoare 
and cut vs a fore Mast . . . We mended our sayles and 
fell to make our fore-Mast. 

17. (July.) The three and twentieth. . . At eleven of 
the clocke our fore Mast was finished and we brought it 
aboord and set it into the step, and in the after-noone we 
rigged it. 

18. (July.) The seuen and twentieth, ... At eight of 
the clocke we tooke in our top-sayles and our fore-bonnet 
and went with a short sayle all night. 

19. (Aug.) The eight ... set our fore-sayle and mayne 
top-sayle. 

20. (Aug.) The ninth. ... a very stiffe gale . . . Then 
we tooke in our mavne savle and lav a trie vnder our fore- 



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sayle ... At eight of the clocke at night wee tooke in 
our top-sayles and went with a low sayle. 

21. (Aug.) The twentieth . . . we tooke off our Bonnets. 

22. (Aug.) The one and twentieth, ... a great Sea 
brake into our fore-corse and split it ; so we were forced 
to take it from the yard and mend it ; wee lay a trie with 
our mayne-corse all night. 

2^. (Aug.) The two and twentieth, stormy weather . . . 
We set our fore-corse and stood to the Eastward vnder our 
fore-sayle, mayne-sayle and misen. 

24. (Aug.) The eight and twentieth . . . being hard by 
the land in fine fathomes, on a sudden wee came into three 
fathomes ; then we beare vp and had but ten foote water, 
and ioyned to the Point . . . And he that will thoroughly 
Discouer this great Bay must haue a small Pinnasse that 
must draw but foure or hue foote water. 

25. (Aug.) The nine and twentieth ... I went to the 
top-mast head and set the Land . . . Then I went againe 
to the top-mast head to see how farre I could see land 
about vs. 

26. (Aug.) The thirtieth ... So wee lay close by with 
our fore-sayle and our mayne-sayle. 

27. (Sept.) The twentieth . . . Our Masters Mate with 
foure men more went vp with our Boat to sound the Riuer 
and found two leagues aboue vs but two fathomes water 
and the channell very narrow ; and aboue that place seuen 
or eight fathomes. 

28. (Sept.) The one and twentieth . . . we determined 
yet once more to go farther up into the Riuer to trie what 
depth and breadth it did beare ; but mucli people resorted 
aboord so wee went not this day. Our Carpenter went on 
land and made a Fore-yard. 

29. (Sept.) The seuen and twentieth . . . we weighed 
and set our fore top-sayle . . . then we set our fore-sayle 
and mayne top-sayle. 

30. (Oct.) The first of October . . . This afternoon one 
Canoe kept hanging vnder our sterne with one man in it 
. . . who got vp by our Rudder to the Cabin window and 
stole out my Pillow and two Shirts and two Bandeleers. 

31. (Oct.) The second ... I shot a falcon at them. 

32. (Oct.) The fourth . . . we had but eight foot and 
an halfe water . . . Then we tooke in our Boat and set 
our mayne-sayle and sprit-sayle and our top-sayles. 

Trusting that the foregoing satisfactorily answers your 
courteous inquiry, and again assuring you that whatever 



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design your people agree upon will be satisfactory to us, 
I remain, in behalf of my colleagues, with great esteem 
Yours very truly, 

Joseph B. Coghlan, 
Rear Admiral United States Navy, Retired, 
Chairman of the Committee on Naval Parade. 

Letter from Minister J^aii Sivinderen. 

MINISTfiRE 

DES 

AFFAIRES ETRANGfiRES. 

The Hague, April 23, 1908. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Esq., Assistant Secretary of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, New York 
City. 

Dear Sir : Since my visit at your office in January last 
great changes took place with me and instead of returning 
to Washington as Her Majesty's Minister Pleni|X)tentiary, 
I stay in my own country as its Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
In that way I will only be able to show from this side of 
the water my great interest in the coming celebration, the 
preparations of which have been trusted to you. x-\s I told 
you, I had every reason to believe that a participation in 
those festivities would meet amongst the Holland people 
with great enthusiasm and I now am glad to tell you that 
a committee has been formed and that the construction of 
the Half Moon is intended to be executed on one of our 
wharves. You will soon get an official notice from that 
committee but I thought it better to anticipate on that, in 
order to prevent that your own committee may take the 
building of the old " dreadnought " in hands on the Ameri- 
can side. 

Believe me, sir, sincerely yours, 

R. DE Marees van Swinderen. 

Letter from President and Secretary to Minister J 'an 
Swinderen. 

New York, May 26, 1908. 

Jonkheer R. de Marees van Swinderen, Minister of Foreign 
Afifairs, The Hague, The Netherlands. 
Sir : At the last meeting of the Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission, your letter of April 23d, communicating 
the gratifying intelligence that a committee of your country- 



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men had been formed with a view to constructing a model 
of Henry Hudson's vessel the " Half Moon " for participa- 
tion in our celebration next year, was received with very 
hearty applause, and I was requested by the Commission 
to express to you its deep appreciation of this evidence of 
the generous liberality of your people and of the distin- 
guished mark of international good-will which it affords. 

The people of Holland could not have resolved upon a 
form of participation in the approaching commemoration 
more welcome to this Commission or to the people whom 
it represents than by sending a counterpart of the Dutch- 
built vessel in which, under the auspices of the Dutch East 
India Company and under the orange, white anrl blue flag 
of the States General, the famous navigator ploughed our 
great river and made its valley the furrow of a new civiliza- 
tion. 

In addition to reminding us vividly of the particular event 
to be commemorated, the vessel will also remind us of the 
remarkable genius of your people, who have driven back 
the sea when you have wanted land for your homes, have 
summoned it to your aid when you have wished to expel 
the enemies of your liberties, and who have ranged it to the 
four quarters of the earth when you have wanted to extend 
your commerce. 

We prize most highly the memory that the cit}- and State 
of New York were founded by the Dutch people, and we 
welcome every evidence that you take as much pride in us 
as your off-spring as we take in you as our parent. 

Will you please convey to the gentlemen of the committee 
the assurances of our very hearty appreciation of their gen- 
erous intentions. When it is convenient for them, we 
should be pleased to know their names and addresses, so 
that we may make such further acknowledgement directly 
to them as may be suitable. 

We also beg you to accept for yourself our cordial thanks 
for your helpful and sympathetic co-operation. We esteem 
it a peculiar piece of good fortune for us that Her Majesty 
has chosen to the distinguished office of Minister of Foreign 
Aft'airs one who, during his residence in the United States, 
won so large a place as you hold in the affection and high 
regard of our people. 

Yours respectfully, 

Stewart L. Woodford, 

President. 
Henry W. Sacket, 

Secretary. 



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Official Iiiz'itation to Kingston Celebration. 
The Secretary laid before the Trustees the official invita- 
tion from the citizens of Kingston, N. Y., to attend their 
quarter-millennial celebration June ist as follows: 

MDCLVIII 
MCMVIII 

The Citizens of Kingston 

request the honor of 

the officers and members of the 

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission's 

presence at the celebration, on Monday, the first of June 

one thousand, nine hundred and eight, of the 

Two hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding 

of the City of Kingston 
The favour of an answer is requested, addressed to Mr. 
A. T. Clearwater, Kingston, New York. 

It was voted that the invitation be accepted and that as 
many of the members as possible would attend. 

Aeronautic Competition. 

Mr. Berri, Chairman of the Committee on Aeronautics, 
reported that on May 21st he had written to the Chief 
Signal Officer of the United States Army, stating the facts 
of the proposed celebration next year, the desirability of 
making a demonstration of the progress made in aeronautic 
science, and the necessity of depending upon the Signal 
Office for such a demonstration. He therefore asked the 
Chief Signal Officer to keep the Commission in mind and 
facilitate such a demonstration if practicable. He also asked 
the Chief Signal Officer if. upon the request of this Com- 
mission, it would be feasible for him to invite aeronauts to 
participate. The Officer had replied that he would be very 
happy to co-operate ; that he would like to send up a 
dirigible balloon, and that he would be glad to send up an 
aeroplane if it should be sufficiently developed by that time. 

Mr. Berri referred to the interest of President Roosevelt 
in the subject of aerial locomotion, as evidenced by his 
desire to have the goverinnent appropriate $300,000 to pro- 



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mote experiments, also the intense popular interest in the 
recent progress in aeronautics. He said he believed that 
in another year the science would be so far advanced as to 
make a demonstration of air craft practicable. As this 
Commission could not control the balloons and air-ships, 
he deemed it advisable to have the demonstration under 
government auspices. He also thought it would not be 
proper to ask foreign governments to make an exhibition 
unless our own government were ready to make one. 

Mr. Beck said that he had noticed in the Minutes of the 
Commission that Mr. Berri had been appointed as Chairman 
of a Committee on Aeronautics and he (Air. Beck) was so 
deeply interested in the subject that he had come to this 
meeting especially to speak in regard to it. He said that 
he was a member of the Aero Society of New York, whose 
standing among societies devoted to the scientific study of 
aerial navigation was very high, and it was something of a 
coincidence that at a recent meeting of the Aero Society 
which he attended it was suggested that there be a competi- 
tion next year in connection with the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration. The Aero Society had appointed Mr. Beck to 
represent it in the matter, a position which he felt some 
delicacy in accepting, since, as a member of this Commis- 
sion, it might devolve on him to pass upon some proposi- 
tion made by the Aero Society. He thought that aerial 
navigation was one of the most fascinating of all human 
problems, and that a competition between the two classes 
of aerial vehicles — the dirigible baloon (lighter than air) 
and the aeroplane or other device (heavier than air) — 
would enlist the talent of the two-score at least of dis- 
tinguished engineers who are directing their faculties to the 
solution of this problem, arouse the intense interest of the 
people, and excite the attention of the world as would no 
other feature of the celebration. But such a competition 
would need the stimulus and aid of money. The construc- 
tion of air-ships, he said, was costly and their operation 
dangerous, and the question of pecvmiary means was im- 
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to offer the prize, it might be possible for the Commission 
and the Aero Society to get one of the great New York 
newspapers that was not averse to exploiting itself, to offer 
a prize for the construction of air-ships. Citing the names 
of several of the leading aeronauts, 'Mr. Beck declared that 
the construction of steerable air-craft was beyond the ex- 
perimental stage. Successful flights had been made with 
machines of both classes, those whose bouyancy depended 
upon a gas lighter than air, and. if the reports about the 
Wright Brothers were to be believed, those which were 
" heavier than air " and were sustained entirely by their own 
mechanism ; and it remained now only to develop their 
efficiency. He came to this meeting to say that the Aero 
Society was most anxious to co-operate in this matter and 
to place its experience at the service of the Commission. 

At the conclusion of his remarks, the President appointed 
Mr. Beck a member of the Committee on Aeronautics. 

Mr. Seward moved that the suggestion of an aeronautic 
competition be referred to the committee on that subject. 
Carried. 

Muscuui Catalogues — Indian Exhibit. 

Dr. Kunz, Chairman of the Sub-committee on Historical 
Exhibits, reported that the museums were ready to go 
ahead with the preparation of catalogues as soon as the 
Commission authorized an appropriation for that purpose. 

He also stated that it would be possible to have forty 
New York State Indians, a number of whom he believed 
to be pure blooded, in New York city at the time of the 
celebration. It would cost $1,500 to have them here one 
week and about $2,100 for two weeks. They were more 
or less trained to public demonstrations and possibly might 
be more valuable as a feature of our great enterprise than 
the Commission suspected at the present time. 

On motion of Mr. Sackett, the matter of an appropria- 
tion for museum catalogues was referred to the Executive 
Committee with power. 



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Limitations on Expenditures. 

Mr. Berri inquired whether any rule had been adopted 
providing that no indebtedness should be incurred by com- 
mittees without previous authorization. 

The President said that he understood that no committee 
could incur any indebtedness without the authority of a vote 
of the Trustees or Executive Committee, and such had been 
the practice. He would, however, entertain a motion to 
that effect if Mr. Berri would move it. 

Mr. Berri therefore moved that no committee or indivi- 
dual member of the Commission should have authority to 
incur any expense in behalf of the Commission without the 
previous approval of the Board of Trustees or the Execu- 
tive Committee. Carried. 

An Acting Treasurer Designated. 
Mr. Seligman stated that he expected to leave for Europe 
in July, to be gone until October, and suggested the advis- 
ability of designating an Acting Treasurer to sign checks 
during his absence if it should be necessary. After a brief 
discussion he moved that the Hon. George W. Perkins be 
appointed Acting Treasurer during his absence abroad. 
Carried. 

President Authorized to Approve Office Expenses Ad 
Interim. 

Mr. Ridder moved that during the summer months when 
the Board of Trustees did not meet, the President be author- 
ized to approve bills for headquarters expenses the same 
as if approved by the Trustees. Carried. 

Col. Jay's Resigjiation of Banquet Chairmansiiip Laid on 

Table. 
The Secretary read a letter from Col. William Jay, Chair- 
man of the Official Banquet Committee, dated May 21, in 
response to an inquiry about the entertainment of foreign 
guests at the time of the Yorktown Centennial in 1881, 
giving his experience on that occasion ; also a letter from 
him dated May 26, requesting the Trustees to name another 



514 Minutes of Trustees 

Chairman of the Banquet Committee, principally on the 
ground that he did not expect to be in New York in Septem- 
ber, 1909. He was willing to remain a member of the 
committee, however, and do what he could before going 
abroad. 

Mr. Seward said that Col. Jay was so admirably qualified 
for the delicate and responsible duties of Chairman of the 
Official Banquet that he believed he voiced the sentiment of 
his colleagues in expressing the earnest wish that Col. Jay 
would retain the position. He therefore moved that Col. 
Jay's resignation as Chairman be laid on the table until he 
could be communicated with further. Carried. 

Report of hnvood Hill Park Committee. 

In the absence of Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman of the 
Inwood Hill Park Committee, the Secretary reported that 
on April 29, Mr. Parsons, accompanied by the President, 
Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Commission, had 
called upon Mayor McClellan and that Mr. Parsons had 
made strong plea to the Mayor upon the urgency of the 
city's immediately acquiring the Inwood Hill property and 
in such a way as would secure it at a reasonable price. The 
Mayor, who had recently been to Inwood Hill, received 
the delegation cordially ; seemed greatly interested, and 
made a helpful suggestion on the subject. 

The Secretary also read a letter from Mr. Parsons, dated 
May 27, expressing his regret at not being able to attend 
the Trustees' meeting, but reporting progress, and reiterat- 
ing part of what he had said to the Mayor, namely, that 
a certain combination of Inwood Hill property owners was 
trying to stand on a basis of prices certainly twice what the 
Commission could recommend ; that he was trying to satisfy 
them that the effect of such a course would be simply to 
over-reach themselves ; and that the Commission would not 
be willing to favor before the public authorities, in the 
present condition of the city treasury, a scheme which would 
involve the payment of twice the value of the land. Report 
of progress received. 



48 1 
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President 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York. 
Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder. Presiding Vice-President. 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, I\Ir. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Aeronautics Committee 

Hon. Wm. Berri, -Chairman, 526 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 

Art and Historical HxHibits Committee 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 23 Wall Street, New York. 
Sub-Committee ( Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Chairman, 
on ■< Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Art Exhibits. ( Mr. Edward Robinson. 
Sub-Committee ( Dr. George F. Knnz, Chairman, 
on Historical •] Mr. S. V. Hoffman, 

Exhibits. ( Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

Auditing' Committee 

Hon. N. Taylor. Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York, 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

Banquet Committee 

Col. William Jay, Chairman, 48 Wall Street, New York. 
Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Civic Parade Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder. Chairman, 182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. B. Altman, Hon. Lewis Nixon, 

Mr. August Belmont, Mr. Eben E. Olcott. 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. William Church Osborn, 

Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. Bayard L. Peck 

Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. Howland Pell, 

Hon. George C. Clausen, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Mr. George Ehret, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Mr. Frank S. Gardner, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 

Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. William Sohmer, 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. James Speyer, 

Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Louis Stern, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. J. Leonard Varick, 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 



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Executive Committee 



Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.A., Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Col. William Jay, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. John La Farge, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

General Connmemorative Exercises Committee 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Hon. David A. Boody, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Col. Wm. Gary Sanger, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Invitations Committee 

Hon. Grover Cleveland, Chairman. Princeton, N. J. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

The Secretary, ex officio. 

In-wood ParK Committee 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William St., New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr George F. Kunz, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

La-w and Legislation Committee 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-officio. 

Memorials Committee 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 85 Liberty Street, New York. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 



May 27, 1908 515 

Foreign Correspondent Councillors Elected. 
Mr. Bergen, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
congratulated the Trustees that the delicate movements 
begun a year ago with a view to enlisting the participation 
of the people of Holland in the celebration had come to 
the happy issue indicated in the correspondence from Ad- 
miral Roell and Minister van Swinderen already read. 
With reference to the matter of Foreign Correspondent 
Councillors (see pages 418 and 473) he was now prepared 
to offer the following resolutions : 

Resolved, That the following gentlemen of the Nether- 
lands, some of whose services have been of value to this 
Commission and who may be of great assistance in the 
Celebration, be and they hereby are appointed Foreign 
Correspondent Councillors to the Commission, namely : 

Mr. C. G. Hooft, No. 609 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, the 
Director of the Fodor Museum and one of the highest 
authorities on the subject of Dutch ship building; 

Dr. E. W. Moes, No. 85 Franz von Mierisstraat, Amster- 
dam, the Keeper of Prints of the Rijks Museum, a great 
authority on engravings and prints and assistant editor of 
magazines ; 

Dr. A. Bredius, No. 6 Prinsegracht, The Hague, the 
Director of the Mauritshuys Museum, editor of " Oud 
Holland," etc. ; and a great authority on the Dutch School 
of Art ; 

Dr. W. Martin, No. 26 Emmastraat, The Hague. As- 
sistant at the Mauritshuys Museum and Professor at Ley- 
den University, and 

Mr. D. Hudig, No. 105 Wijn Flaven, Rotterdam, a gentle- 
man who has already shown a great interest in tracing draw- 
ings of the Half Moon or of vessels of that period, and 
has corresponded with the Chairman of the Committee on 
Memorials on this subject. 

Resolved, That proper certificates of the appointment of 
these gentlemen, in accordance with the previous resolution 
of the Trustees on this subject, be made and executed and 
forwarded to the above named gentlemen by proper officers 
of the Commission. 

Mr. Bergen said that nearly all of these gentlemen were 
known by Mr. August F. Jaccaci, one of the trustees of 



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the Commission, who has met some of them on a recent 
visit to Holland ; that they all bore a high character, and 
were men of reputation in their country, as he was credibly 
informed. 

The resolutions were adopted. 

Couuncuwratk'c Coins and Postage Stamps Rccoinuicndcd. 

Mr. Bergen reported on the subject of commemorative 
coins and postage stamps, referred to the Committee on 
Memorials at the last meeting of the Commission, (see 
page 492) that the Committee was in favor of taking 
steps to have such coins and stamps issued as soon as pos- 
sible. Although he had not had an opportunity of hearing 
the views of all the members of his Committee, he ventured 
to report, subject to the approval of the Trustees, that such 
coins should have on one side a representation of the Half 
Moon, and on the other side a representation of the Cler- 
mont. He therefore offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That the Committee on Memorials, or its 
Chairman, be authorized to confer with the United States 
Government and with the Secretary of the Treasury and 
the Postmaster-General in order to have the Government, 
if possible, undertake the making of such coins and of 
such postage stamps, and that the details thereof be referred 
to the Committee on Memorials for further report thereon 
after hearing from the officials of the United States Govern- 
ment on this subject. 

Adopted. 

The Building of the Half Moon and Clermont. 

Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Committee on Naval 
Parade, reported that the correspondence already read 
indicated the progress of the preparations in Holland for 
the reproduction of the Half ]\Ioon. With respect to the 
Clermont, the drawings, embodying the best information 
obtainable, were about to be prepared. During the past 
month, Mr. R. Fulton Ludlow, of Claverack, a member of 
this Commission, a grandson of Fulton, and the possessor 



May 27, 1908 517 

of some very interesting memorabilia of Fulton, had kindly 
placed his documents and opinions at the service of the 
Committee. The Committee had also taken some steps to 
sound maritime and commercial interests of New York, to 
see if they would not emulate the generosity of the people 
of the Netherlands and give the Clermont to the Commis- 
sion. Commissioner Wm. McCarroll had promised to lay 
the matter before the executive committee of the New 
York Board of Trade and Transportation. Mr. William 
Harris Douglas, President of the New York Produce 
Exchange, had informed Admiral Coghlan that as an 
Exchange, their Board had no authority to make a sub- 
scription of this kind, but suggested that a notice might be 
posted on the floor of the Exchange, so that those who 
desired to contribute might do so. Admiral Coghlan said 
that further inquiry in this direction would be made. 
Report of progress received. 

Official Literary Exercises. 
General Wilson reported briefly on the progress made in 
the preparations for the official literary exercises, and the 
report was received. 

Plan and Scope Still Open. 

Mr. Seward said that there was nothing new to report 
from the Plan and Scope Committee. The arrangements 
for the celebration were still open for any new suggestions, 
and if the Committee on Aeronautics could find anything 
that would fly in 1909, his Committee would find a place 
for it in the programme. 

Conditional Adjoiinnnent Until October 28th. 

Mr. Sackett moved that the regular monthly meetings 
of the Trustees under the by-laws, be omitted until the 
meeting of Wednesday, October 28, 1908, unless the Presi- 
dent should deem it advisable to call a meeting before that 
time. He said that the work of the Commission was much 
better in hand now than a year ago, when the Trustees 



5i8 Minutes of Trustees, May 27, 1908 

adjourned from June to October ; that the Committees were 
actively at work and that they could probably continue their 
preparations without the necessity of reporting before Octo- 
ber ; and that the small attendance of Trustees at the June 
meeting last year, indicated the inconvenience of attendance 
at that time. The motion was carried. 

The President, before entertaining the motion for ad- 
journment, especially thanked the Mayors of Hudson and 
Newburgh for their attendance, wished all the Trustees a 
restful summer's vacation, and expressed the hope that 
they would all be reunited in the work in the fall. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of Sept. 18 and Sept. 23, 1908 



520 



MtmhtYB of t\}t (EnmmtBston* 



Abraham Abraham. 

Herbert Adams. 

^oAn G. Agar. 

R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alpbonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Chas. H. Armaiagc. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballou. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batdieller. 
Constructor VV'iUiam J. 

Ba.xter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. IVilliam Berri. 
Hon. John Bigelow. 
Hon. Frank S. Black. 
E. W. Bloomingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
Herbert L. Bridgman. 
George V. Brozver. 
Dr. E. Family Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen, 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh 

Ian. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Robt. Fulton Cutting. 
Hon. Rcl't. W. de Forest. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montayne. 



E. S. A. deLima. 
Hon. C. M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
Gtorge G. DtW'itt. 
Hon. William Uraper. 
Charles A. DuBois. 
John C. Fames. 
George Ehret. 
Hon. Smith Ely. 
Dr. Thos. A. Emmet. 
Arthur English. 
Most Rev. John ^L 

Farley. 
Hon. J. Sloat Fasselt. 
Barr Ferree. 
Stuyzesant Fish. 
Theodore Fitch. 
Wi-nchester Fitch. 
James J. Fitzgerald. 
Fredk. S. Flower. 
Thomas Powell Fozvler. 
.\iisten G. Fox. 
Hon. Chas. .S. Francis. 
Henry C. Frick. 
Frank S. Gardner. 
Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 
Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 
Robert Walton Goelet. 
Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 
Dr. E. R. L. Gould. 
George J. Gould. 
Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant. 
Cart. R. H. Greene. 
George F. Gregory. 
Henry E. Gregory. 
Hon. Edward M. Grout. 
Ahner S. Haight. 
Edw. Hagntnan Hall. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
Geo. A. Hearn. 
Tames A. Hearn. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 
Hon. It'arren '^.'V ''• 
Hon. David B. Hill. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 

berg. ' 

Samuel J'erplanck Hoff- 
man. 
Tames P. Holland. 
Willis Holly. 
William Homan. 
Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 
Colgate Hovt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henrv Hudson. 
Walter G. Hudson. 
Archer M. Huntington. 
T. D. Huntting. 
A ugust F. Jaccaci. 
Col. IVilliam Jay. 
Jacob Katz. 



Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Ketcham. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kuns. 
Dr. John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Tulius Lehrenkrauss. 
'Dr. Henry M. l.eipsiger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 
Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Lo-v. 
R. Fulton T.udlow. 
Hon. Arthur Mac.Arlhur. 
William .\. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 
Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. John J. McCook. 
Donald McDonald. 

William J. McKav. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear-Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Com. Jacob II'. .l//7Av. 

Hon. Warner Miller. 

Frank D. Millet. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogden Mills. 

J. Pierpont Morgan. 

lion. F"ordham ^lorris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Wm. C. Muschenheim. 

Nathan Newman. 

C. H. Niehaus. 

Ludwig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Chas. R. Norman. 

H»n. .^tore:an A O' I^rUn. 
W. R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
Wm. Church Osborn. 
Prof. Henrv F. Osborn. 
Percv B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 
Hon. Geo. IV. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
George A. Plimpton. 



f Names of Trustees in italics.] 



521 



Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Tl'.omas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Cen. Chas. !•'. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W, Sackctt. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 

Clias. A. Schermerliorn. 

Hon. Charles A. "^chieren. 

Jacob H. Schiff. 

Prcst. Jacob G. Schur- 
man. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

Hon. Townsend S -udder. 

Isaac A^ Sr\'/c'"^a/i. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. renner. 

//oh. Fr,-d'/,-. W. .Sc-.vard. 

Hon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 



/. Edward Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

E. \^ Skinner. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry I,. Stoddard. 

Hon. Oscar .?. Straus. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

Stevenson Tavlor. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Spencer Trask. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

L/.-Com. Aaron Vander- 

bilt. 
Alfred G. 
Cornelius 
Rev. Dr. 

Dvke. 



Vanderbilt. 
Vanderbilt. 
Henry Van 



Warner Van Norden. 
[Names of Trustees in italics ] 



Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 
John R. Van Wormer. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Hon. E. B. \'reeland. 
Col. John W. Vrooman, 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells. Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Wliitnev. 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
George Wilson. 
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 
Hon. John S. Wise. 
Charles B. Wolffram. 
Hon. Joseph S. Wood. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Wood' 

ruff. 
W. E. WooIIey. 
James A. Wright. 
Hon. Richard Young. 



M.^YORS O F CITIES* 

Albany Hon. Charles H. Gaus. 

Amsterdam 

Auburn Hon. C. August Koenig. 

Binghamton Hon. C. M. S/atis >«. 

Buffalo Hon. James N. Adam. 

Cohoes Hon. M. D. Hanson. 

Corning 

Cortland Hon. Grove T. Ma.von. 

Dunkirk 

Elmira Hon. Daniel Slieeltan. 

Fulton 

Geneva Hon. Arthur P. Rose. 

Glens Falls 

Gloversville Hon. Frederick M. Young. 

Jlornell Hon. Ricliard Af. Prangen. 

Hudson Hofi. Hetu-y Hudson. 

Ithaca 

Jamestown Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 

Jolmstown Hjn. F. Beebe. 

Kingston Hon. Walter P. Crane. 

Little Falls Hon. A . B. Santry. 

Lockport Hon. William H. Barker. 

I\?iddletown 

Mount Vernon 

Newburgh Hon. Benjamin lilcClung. 

New Rochelle Hon. George G. Raymond. 

New York Hon. George B. McClellan. 

Niagara Falls Hon. A ntliony C. Douglass. 

North Tonawanda Hon. Eugene de Kleist. 

Ogdensburg 

Olean Hon. W. H. Mandeville. 

Oneida Hon. C. A . Frost. 

Oswego 

Plattsburg 

Poughkeepsie Hon. John K. Sague. 

Rensselaer Hon. ll'in. J. Rockefeller. 

Rochester Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 

Rome 

Schenectady //on. Horace S. I'an I 'oast. 

*Ex-officio, Members and Trustees. 



522 

Syracuse Hon. A Ian C. Fobes. 

Tonawanda 

Troy Hon. Elias P. Mann. 

XTtica //('«. Thomas WhceU'r. 

Watertown Hon. Francis M. Hugo. 

Watervliet Hon. Daniel P. Quinn. 

Yonkers }!on. Nathan A. Warren. 

PRESIDENTS OF VILLAGES t 

Athens 

Castleton Hon. John T. Flynn. 

Catskill Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Cold Spring 

Corinth 

Cornwall 

Coxsackie 

Croton-on-Hudson Hon. Clarence E. Powell. 

Dobbs Ferry Hon. Lyman C. French. 

Fishkill Hon. James H. Doyle. 

Fishkill Landing ITon. Irving J. Justus. 

Fort Edward lion. James F. FitzGerald. 

Green Island ITon. Robert B. Waters. 

Hastings-on-Hudson Hon. F. G. Zinsser. 

Haverstraw Hon. Thomas Lynch. 

Trvington Hon. M. S. Heltzhoover. 

Matteawan Hon. Roswell S. Judson. 

Mechanicville 

North Tarrytown ITon. John Wirth. 

Nyack Hon. Horace W. Boyd. 

Ossining Hon. Joel D. Madden. 

Peekskill Hon. Isaac H. Smith. 

Piermont 

Red Hook 

Ithinebeck 

Sandy Hill Hon. C. W. Higley. 

Saugerties Hon. A. Rowe. 

Schuylerville Hon. D. A. Bullard. 

South Glens Falls Hon. Dennis Moynihan. 

South Nyack , „, j 

Stillwater Hon. Edward J. Wood, 

Tarrvtown 

Tivoii Hon. James L. 1* reeborn. 

Upper Nyack 

Victory Mills ^ , ^ ^^ , 

Wappingers Falls Hon. John L. Hughes. 

Waterford 

West Haverstraw 

tEx-officio, Members of the Commission. 



FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT COUNCILLORS 

Dr A Bredius The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Hon C G Hooft Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Hon D Hudig Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr W. Martin The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr E. W Moes Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 



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President 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York. 

"Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder. Presiding Vice-President. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

U. S. N., Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Treasurer 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Aeronautics Committee 

Hon. Wm. Berri, Chairman, 526 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 

Art and Historical HxHibits Committee 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 22 Wall Street, New York_ 
Sub-Committee ( Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Chairman, 
on ■] Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Art Exhibits. ( Mr. Edward Robinson. 
Sub-Committee ( Dr. George F. Knnz, Chairman. 
on Historical -j Mr. S. V. Hoffman, 

Exhibits. ( Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

Auditing Committee 

Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroll. 

Banquet Committee 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Carnival Parade Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. B. Altman, Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Mr. August Belmont, Mr. Eben E. Olcott. 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. William Church Osborn, 

Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 

Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. Howland Pell, 

Hon. George C. Clausen, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Mr. George Ehret, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Mr. Frank S. Gardner, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 

Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. William Sohmer, 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. James Speyer, 

Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Louis Stern. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. J. Leonard Varick, 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 



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Executive Committee 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, i8 Wall Street, New York, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 

Hon. Janies M. Beck. Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon. N. Taylor PhilHps, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan,U.S.N.. .Air. Henry W. Sackett, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, 3.1r. Isaac N. Seligman, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. John H. Starin, 

Col. William Jay, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. John La Farge, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. William McCarroll, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 

General Commemorative Exercises Committee 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Hon. David A. Boody, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Col. Wm. Gary Sanger, 

Hon. Edward I\I. Shepard. 

Invitations Committee 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

The Secretary, cx-oificio. 

In-wood ParK Committee 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, qj William St., New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Air. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

La-w and Legislation Committee 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Memorials Conimittee 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Wm. R. Willco.x. 



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Military Parade Committee 

Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Naval Parade Committee 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 
29 Park Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Const'r Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob W. Miller, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, 
Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
Mr. William T. McKay, 
Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 
U. S. N., 

Nominations Committee 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Col. John W. Vrooman, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, The President, cx-ofUcio. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman, 157 W. 7gth St., New York. 
Mr. R. P. Bolton. Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Mr. Edward DeWitt, :\Ir. Albert Ulmann, 

Air. Edmund Wetmore. 



Mr. Chas. R. Norman, 
Mr. Louis T. Romaine, 
Hon. John H. Starin, 
Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 



Plan and Scope Committee 



Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Hon. William Berri, 
Rear Adm. T. B. Coglilan.U.S.N., 
Mr. Robert W. De Forest, 
Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, U.S.A., 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Hon. Seth Low, 
Hon. Wm. McCarroll, 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 



Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Herman Ridder, 
JMr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
The President, cx-oMcio. 



Reception Committee 



Hon. Seth Low, Chairman, 30 
Col. John Jacob Astor, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Hon. Frank S. Black, 
Hon. A. J. Boulton, 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 
Mr. John Claflin, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.N., 
Most Rev. John M. Farley, 
Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, 

U. S. A., 
Mr. E. H. Hall, 
Hon. David B. Hill, 



East 64th Street, New York. 

Hon. Henry E. Howland, 

Col. William Jay, 

Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 

Col. John J. McCook, 

Hon. St. Clair IMcKelway. 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 

U. S. N.. 
Hon. John G. Milburn, 
Mr. Ogden Mills. 
Mr. J. P. Morgan, 
Mr. Fordham Morris, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Gen. Horace Porter, 



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Reception Committee {^continued') 



Mr. Thos. R. Proctor, 
Mr. Herman Riddcr, 
Mr. Wm. Rockefeller, 
Mr. Henry \V. Sackett, 
Pres. J. G. Schurman, 
Mr. I. N. Scligman, 
Hon. Frederick \V. Seward, 
Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 



Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 
Hon. William R. Willcox. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 



VerplancK's Point ParK Committee 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill. N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Hisrley, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Sanuiel B. Ward. 

"W^ays and Means Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William St., New York. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 



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Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

September i8, 1908. 

The sixth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was held pursuant 
to call of the Chairman at the headquarters of the Commis- 
sion in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau Street, New 
York City, on Friday, September 18, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call. 

Present: Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Rear Admiral Joseph B. 
Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Theodore 
Fitch, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. George Frederick 
Kunz, Hon. William McCarroll, Commandant Jacob W. 
Miller, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. 
Henry "^V. Scckett, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Gen. James 
Grant Wilson, and Mr. Stewart L. Woodford. 

In the absence of Chairman Woodford, the Secretary 
called the meeting to order and Mr. Curtis was elected 
Chairman pro tempore. Soon after the meeting was opened 
the Chairman arrived and Mr. Curtis relinquished the chair 
to him. 

Excused for Absence. 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Col. William Jay, Hon. Seth 
Low, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Her- 
man Ridder, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Spencer Trask, 
and Dr. Samuel B. Ward, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the fifth meeting of the Executive Com- 
mittee, held February 3, 1908, having been printed (pp. 405- 
409) and sent to all the members, were approved as printed. 



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Death of Ho)i. Grover Cleveland. 

The Chairman announced the death of the Hon. Grover 
Cleveland, a Trustee and a Vice-President of the Commis- 
sion and a member of the Executive Committee, which oc- 
curred at his late home in Princeton, N. J-. on June 25, 1908, 
and suggested the propriety of having a suitable minute pre- 
pared for presentation at the next meeting of the Board of 
Trustees. 

A motion was adopted authorizing the Chairman to ap- 
point a Committee to prepare the minute, and he appointed 
the Assistant Secretary as such. 

Death of Bishop Potter. 

The Chairman also announced the death of the Right 
Reverend the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese 
of New York, Henry Codman Potter, who died at Coopers- 
town, N. Y., on July 21, 1908, at the age of 74 years. 

It was voted that the Chairman appoint a Committee to 
prepare an appropriate minute to be presented at a future 
meeting of the Trustees. 

Mr. John E. Parsons Re-elected Viee-Chairnian. 

]Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations, 
presented a report from that committee nominating Mr. 
John E. Parsons for re-election as Vice-Chairman of the 
Executive Committee. 

The report was received and the Chairman invited other 

nominations from the floor. There being none, Mr. Fitch 

moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast a single ballot 

in behalf of the meeting for Mr. Parsons. The motion was 

unanimously carried, and the ballot having been cast as 

directed, the Chairman announced the unanimous election of 

Mr. Parsons. 

( 
Carnival Parade Proposition by Mr. A. H. Stoddard Based 

on Nezv Orleans Mardi Gras. 
Mr. Sackett stated that one of the principal reasons for 
calling this meeting of the Executive Committee was to con- 
sider an important proposition concerning the Carnival 



September i8, 1908 529 

Parade feature of the celebration which had been offered by- 
Mr. A. H. Stoddard of New Orleans, who for many years 
had been Master of the Mardi Gras pageants in that city. 
Now that the plans for the construction of the fac-similes of 
the Half Moon and Clermont were under way, there re- 
mained no other feature of the proposed celebration that re- 
quired so much time for preparation as the Carnival Parade, 
which was the principal event of the programme for Satur- 
day, October 2, 1909. In view of the importance of this sub- 
ject and some others included in the order of business, the 
Secretary had conferred with the President of the Commis- 
sion and with Mr. Ridder, Chairman of the Carnival Parade 
Committee, with the result that the present meeting had 
been called to consider the advisability of making some 
recommendation on the subject to the meeting of the Trus- 
tees called for Wednesday, September 23d. Mr. Ridder had 
intended to be present at this meeting but had been called 
away unexpectedly to attend a meeting of the Democratic 
National Committee. Mr. Stoddard was here, however, and 
the Secretary moved that he be accorded the courtesy of the 
floor and be requested to explain his proposition. The 
motion was carried. 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard, whose home address is New Orleans, 
but whose temporary address in New York City is in care 
of Messrs. Crusel, Peters and Connor, No. 72 Beaver Street, 
then took the floor. He said that for many years he had 
been Master of the Mardi Gras pageants in New Orleans, 
and that at present he had charge of the preparations being 
made in Chicago for a Carnival Parade there. When he 
went to Chicago he had no idea of going into this as a busi- 
ness, but there seemed to be a demand for it, and he believed 
that he was the most experienced man in this line in the 
country. The pageants in New Orleans, he believed, enti- 
tled it to be called the Carnival City of the World. 

The New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration, he continued, had 
been the evolution of three quarters of a century. The first 
notable street procession of masqueraders was held in 1827, 
the inaugurators including a number of young gentlemen 



530 Minutes of Executive Committee 

who had just returned from France after finishing their 
Parisian education. Ten years later this was followed by 
another on a grander scale on the Mardi Gras of 1837, and 
from that the custom had been handed down from father 
to son until the present splendid Carnival had been de- 
veloped, 

Mr. Stoddard then proceeded to explain the methods pur- 
sued in New Orleans. The pageants there are conducted 
by four secret societies, namely : The Knights of Momus, the 
Mystick Krewe of Comus, the Knights of Proteus, and the 
Court of Rex. The Court of Rex is the business pivot of the 
Carnival ; the other three organizations being practically the 
social features. Rex invites everybody to participate in the 
carnival, to mask, and to have functions of their own, and 
there were about 24 mystic balls. The leading functions, 
however, are by the four organizations named. Each of 
these societies give a ball and street parade in the Mardi 
Gras season. The festivities begin with the Momus parade 
and ball on the Thursday before Mardi Gras ; then follow 
the Proteus parade and ball on the night of Monday; the 
Rex parade during the day of Mardi Gras; and the Rex 
ball, and the Comus parade and ball on the night of Mardi 
Gras. The features of the displays of each organization 
are kept secret to itself until publicly disclosed in the 
parade. In times past they had represented mythological, 
allegorical, classical and historical subjects, and had about 
exhausted the available ideas in these departments. On 
occasions they had had some humorous subjects but they did 
not prove popular. When a given subject has been selected, 
Mr. Stoddard said that the first step was for his artists to 
make a pen sketch of it, similar to specimens which he ex- 
hibited in a sketch-book about 4 by 6 inches in size. This 
sketch was submitted for consideration and modification if 
necessary. When the sketch was approved, an enlarged 
colored drawing was made about 17 by 22 inches in size. 
From this the float was constructed, the costumes made and 
the tableau composed. All of this was slow work and re- 
quired months of preparation. A year was none too much 



September i8, 1908 531 

time. As soon as one carnival was over, they began their 
studies and preparations for the next. The floats in the 
Mardi Gras pageant included no advertising or commercial 
features, but there were separate advertising features dur- 
ing the Mardi Gras season. The illumination of the night 
parades was a very simple matter. In New Orleans, they 
simply had men, costumed in tunics, carrying gasolene lamps 
and reflectors before, at the sides of and behind each float. 

As to the cost, Mr. Stoddard said that from the first of 
January to the first of March about $300,000 was spent on 
these festivities, of which not more than $100,000 was spent 
on pageantry. The last budget of the Rex Carnival for the 
reception-ball, military display on Monday and His Majesty's 
pageant on Tuesday amounted to $32,000. The construc- 
tion of the floats cost $6,000 or $7,000. The costumes cost 
about as much in addition. Some organizations spent 
$4,000 and some $7,500 on costumes. Twenty floats cost 
about $6,000, when built under his direction. A few years 
ago Milwaukee had a carnival and 19 floats cost $25,000, or 
about four times what they should have cost, because they 
did not know how to go about the business. Milwaukee 
spent altogether about $60,000 that year. 

The expenses of the Mardi Gras carnival in New Orleans 
were not defrayed by popular subscription or public appro- 
priation, Mr. Stoddard said. The subscription plan was 
tried originally but it was finally decided to pay the expenses 
by membership fees. The members of the organizations re- 
ferred to paid $100 apiece for annual dues, and the pro- 
ceeds were ample for the purposes. There should be no 
difficulty in securing funds in New York for a carnival 
parade next year. Milwaukee had a hard time financially 
the first year ; the second year was easier, and the third year 
they had a surplus. They gave it up the fourth year be- 
cause they had no one to look after it. 

Mr. Stoddard said he was nearing the end of his work in 
Chicago in preparation for a ten days celebration to be held 
there from October 10 to October 20, 1909. The celebra- 
tion would consist of a series of balls and public functions, 
including automobile parades, industrial parades, etc., in- 



532 Minutes of Executive Committee 

terspersed with pageants. He had been working there eight 
months and his part was nearly finished, so that he could 
take hold in New York if desired. He was willing to take 
charge iiere on the same basis as in Chicago — the allowance 
of a reasonable expense account and, if he secured the con- 
tract for building the floats, a commercial profit on the con- 
struction. The Commission could invite competitive bids 
on the construction and award to the lowest bidder, but he 
believed he would get the contract for he knew he could do 
it cheaper than anyone else on account of his 21 years' ex- 
perience in New Orleans. Asked to be more specific as to 
figures, he said that he would want about $350 a month to 
cover his services, artists' expenses, office rent, stenographer, 
etc.. or about $5,000 in all; and if he secured the contract 
for construction of the floats he would want 10 per cent, on 
cost of construction. This commission would apply only 
to the cost of construction of the floats, not to the gross cost 
of the carnival. He said it w'ould be easy work to create a 
revenue that would pay the expense of the carnival. As to 
the place of construction, he said that the floats could be 
built in New Jersey if more convenient than in New York, 
and brought across the river. 

After answering several questions put by members of the 
C'ommittee, Mr. Stoddard was thanked for his courtesy and 
withdrew. 

Mr. Sackett moved that Mr. Stoddard's proposition be re- 
ferred to the Carnival Parade Committee with the request to 
re])ort thereon to the next meeting of the Trustees. Carried. 

Caniiral Parade Proposition by Mr. JJ'iii. Parry, Based on 
the Quebec Pageants. 

General Wilson inquired if anyone present could state 
the cost of the recent celebration of the 300th anniversary of 
the founding of Quebec. 

The .'secretary replied that he expected here this afternoon 
]\Ir. William Parry, who co-operated with ]\lr. Lascelles, the 
Pageant Master at Quebec, and who was prepared to take 
up the carnival feature of our celebration on a difl^erent 
basis. 



September 18, 1908 533 

General Wilson said that in England these pageants were 
evolved from very ancient customs, which had a notable 
revival in the parade in honor of the loooth anniversary of 
King Alfred. His friends who attended the Quebec cele- 
bration had pronounced the pageants to have been extremely 
beautiful and by far the most interesting features of the 
celebration. 

A little later Islr. Wm. Parry arrived* and the Secretary 
moved that he be given the privilege of the floor and re- 
quested to make a statement. Carried. 

Mr. Parry, whose New York City address is the Hotel 
Woodstock, No. 127 West 43d Street, but whose temporary 
address is the Hotel Hanover, Philadelphia, Pa., stated that 
he was a stage manager by profession, having been Stage 
Director of the Metropolitan Opera House for fourteen or 
fifteen years. He was in Quebec assisting the Master of 
Pageants, Mr. Frank Lascelles of England. Mr. Lascelles, 
he said, was an independent gentleman of culture, a graduate 
of Oxford University, and the owner of his own manor in 
Kent. He had conducted the pageants at Windsor and else- 
where with such success that he had been invited to be the 
guest of a distinguished citizen of Canada and to take 
charge of the pageants in Quebec. For this, he was paid 
$50,000. Mr. Parry had assisted Mr. Lascelles, but he gave 
the latter all the credit for the brilliant success of the series 
of pageants depicting the history of Quebec from the sail- 
ing of Jacques Cartier in 1534 and his return to the court of 
Francois le Premier, to the founding of Quebec in 1608 by 
Samuel de Champlain and succeeding events. They left off 
the history during the last hundred years because it was not 
so interesting as the earlier events. Although Mr. Parry in 
his profession was well acquainted with the most brilliant 
stage spectacles, he said that in Quebec he learned what a 
pageant meant. Here, he said, was a new field outside of 
the theatre which was instructive to children as well as 
adults and which was a better teacher than the school ; for 



*In the interval before Mr Parry's arrival some other business, 
noted later, wps transacted : bnt for the sake df the continuity of the 
subject his statement is introduced here. 



534 Minutes of Executive Committee 

that which was impressed on the mind through the eye was 
more graphically impressed and more easily comprehended 
and retained than information dug out of books. He found 
that the children of Quebec knew more about the history of 
that city in consequence of the ter-centenary pageants than 
they could have acquired in years of study. Vice-President 
Fairbanks, who represented the United States at the Quebec 
celebration, said, apropos of the historical pageant: "' It will 
not be long before such a thing as this will be done for us in 
the States. It is too good a thing to leave to England 
alone." 

Quebec, said Mr. Parry, was originally antagonistic to the 
idea of the pageants. The priests at first did not want them 
because they feared that they would be too theatrical ; and 
the French, who predominate there, did not want them for 
fear that they would be too English and give the English 
the predominance. Apropos of the susceptibilities of the 
French citizens of Quebec, he mentioned the fact that when 
he became engaged in the work of rehearsing and drilling, 
he first wrote his orders in English ; whereupon he was re- 
quested by the Quebec Chronicle to write them in French. 
Then he wrote them in both English and French, which was 
no inconvenience to him as he spoke French fluently, but he 
found that he had unwittingly committed another mistake by 
pmting the English version first. It was not until he had re- 
verbcd the order and put the French first that everything 
was smoothed down. 

The Quebec pageants represented seven great historical 
scenes and one grand reunion, in which latter, the 3,600 
participants joined by 15,000 spectators, united in singing the 
Dominion anthem " Canada." No one who took part in the 
pageants was paid anything. There was not a number of 
paid supers. The participants were all volunteers, the lead- 
ing parts being taken by lineal descendants of the historical 
prototypes. The whole Quebec celebration cost about 
$350,000, of which amount $200,000 was appropriated by the 
Canadian government and about $150,000 by the City of 
Quebec. The seven pageants cost less than $200,000. 
About $60,000 was spent on costumes. The wearers of the 



September i8, 1908 535 

costumes were very proud of them, and wore them in the 
streets and at home when not on parade.* 

Preparations for the celebration began more than a year 
ago by working up popular interest. Mr. Lascelles was 
there four months. At the beginning of the preparations, 
dances and performances of various kinds were held in 
Quebec for the purpose of raising funds, and a large sum 
was thus raised ; but it proved not to be necessary and was 
returned. 

In response to the inquiry as to whether it would not 
be more expensive to prepare such a celebration in New 
York than in Quebec, Mr. Parry replied that on the con- 
trary, things had to be imported in Canada which could be 
found here, and he could do it at the same expense here as 
in Quebec. He said that the success of Quebec could read- 
ily be duplicated on the Hudson. Indeed, he did not hesi- 
tate to promise to excel it, and make the celebration here 
one of the most glorious ever held. What was needed first 
was natural surroundings, forming a natural setting for the 
scenes enacted. The Plains of Abraham at Quebec, over- 
looking the St. Lawrence, were admirably adapted to the 
purpose. The same could be said of the shores of the 
Hudson river. The next thing was to interest the leading 
families and the lineal descendants of Peter Stuyvesant and 
other hisorical characters to participate. But it was neces- 
sary to get to work without delay to make a success, and he 
urged the Committee to spare no time and get ready as soon 
as possible. He was now preparing the pageant with which 
Philadelphia is to celebrate Founders' Week from October 5 



*When the National Battlefields Commission started to collect the 
costumes, arms and properties used in the pageants, so many of the 
participants expressed the wish to J<eep their costumes that on Sept. 
12 the Commission voted, " in consideration of the sacrifices of time 
and money so willingly made by the Pageant performers, the warm 
readiness with which they have lent themselves to the exigencies of 
the service required of them, and the patriotic and continued enthu- 
siasm which tended so greatly to its success, to accede to their 
demand that each of the performers should preserve the costume, 
accoutrements, etc., etc., worn during the festivities as a rare and 
lasting souvenir of the grand celebration of the Tercentenary of the 
founding of Quebec." 



536 Minutes of Executive Committee 

to October 10, icp8. after which he could place his services 
at the disposal of the Commission. 

The Chairman asked ^Iv. Parry what place in New York 
he regarded as most eligible for such a pageant. 

Air. Parry suggested Peekskill, adding: "We don't want 
theatrical scenery. We want natural scenery." 

The Chairman : " Peekskill is an attractive place ; but 
where would be the people?" 

The Assistant Secretary : " It seems to me the Chairman 
has made an important point. We are spending the money 
of the people of the State, and this feature ought to be 
enacted where it can be seen by the greatest number." 

Th.e Secretary : " How about Riverside, in New York 
City? Is it not practicable to take the natural adjuncts of 
Riverside and add the floats and other necessary equipments 
of the pageant?" 

Air. Parry: " Riverside is all right if the spectacle is to be 
free. We must have the river. If no admission is to be 
charged, Riverside is an ideal spot. We could have the 
embarkation of Henry Pludson represented on the New 
Jersey side and his arrival on the New York side." 

Mr. Stetson referred to the presence of the railroad along 
the shore, in New York as well as at Peekskill. 

Mr. Olcott thought the difficulty could be obviated at 
Riverside by building a shed over the track. 

The Secretarv asked if the floats could not be constructed 
so as to be towed up the river. 

Air. Parry replied affirmatively. 

Air. Stetson suggested that the pageant could be repro- 
duced at different places up the river. 

Air. Parry said the pageant might be given three times the 
first week and three times the second week. 

General Wilson suggested that the second week, proposed 
for " old home week," would afiford suitable opportunities 
for repetitions up the river. 

After some further discussion, participated in by Dr. 
Kunz, Admiral Coghlan. Air. Curtis and others, it was 
voted, on motion of Air. Curtis, that the subjects of both Air. 



September i8, 1908 537 

Parry's and Mr. Stoddard's propositions be referred to a 
committee consisting of Mr. Ridder and Mr. Sackett, with 
the request to report if possible at the next meetmg of the 
Trustees. 

Miss C. E. Mason's Proposal for a Pageant at Tarrytown. 
The Assistant Secretary read a letter from Miss C. E. 
Mason, principal of the private school "The Castle' at 
Tarrytown-on-Hudson, dated September 9, 1908, and ad- 
dressed to the President of the Commission, in which, after 
alluding to her recent visit to Holland, her presence at the 
beautiful pageant at the Ranelagh Gardens in Old Chelsea, 
London, and the suggestion of the Commission that local 
towns along the Hudson join in the celebration next year, 
she says that these things have crystallized in the following 
idea: 

" Let us have a great pageant at Tarrytown, the home of 
Washington Irving, the historian of the Dutch m New Am- 
sterdam. , .1 -r „ 
"We people of Tarrytown look out upon the iappan 
Zee ' where the Old Dutch Mariner breathed his prayer to 
good St. Nicholas ;' here was the scene of the first American 
dassic, ' The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' through our village 
street the Headless Horseman pursued Ichabod Crane ; here 
the action of Tarrytown, where the British men of war at- 
tacked barges bearing supplies for Washington s army and 
Captain Sheldon fell while saving them; here the scene of the 
attack by Hessians on the American Paymaster ; here Wash- 
ington came as visitor to Philipse Manor House; here was 
th? scene of Cooper's ' Spy;' here was the capture of Major 
Andre, and here many other scenes which it is needless at 
this time to name; here are beautiful legends of happenings 
in Indian times, prior to the Dutch ; the Half Moon doubt- 
less stopped here, for in the little creek which flows through 
our village was the ancient landing place of the Dutch sliips 
coming with their cargoes direct from Holland ; The Old 
Dutch Church ' still stands, the bricks of which were sent 
from Holland. , 

" We could thus have ten to fourteen great traditional or 
historical events, which actually took place here. Some 

scenes proposed are : . , • . 1 4.1 ^ 

" I. Legend of White Rock, using an airship to lower tlie 
Indian maiden from the clouds. 



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"2. Another Indian Scene; Corn Husking, Indian fortune 
telling, Indian Dancing, etc. 

" 3. First sight of the ' Half Aloon ' by the Indians in 
their canoes, landing of the Dutch in old costumes. The 
Dutch play ten pins, have archery, etc. 

" 4. Spectacular characters from Knickerbocker History 
pass in Review before Washington Irving. 

" 5. Scene from Katrina Van Tassel and Ichabod Crane. 
Old Dutch Dances. 

" 6. Arrival of American troops under Washington. 

" 7. March of British Troops. 

" 8. Attack of Hessians on Paymaster. 

" 9. Scene of Action of Tarrytown; attack by British men 
of war on Washington's barges. 
10. Capture of Major Andre. 

" II. Scene from Cooper's ' Spy.' 

" 12. Arrival of the Clermont; spectators in Costumes of 
Fulton's day. 

" These are merely suggestions. Probably when we come 
to consult books on local and national events better subjects 
will be preferred. But remember the air ship is our sugges- 
tion here and don't let the Newburgh people have it. It 
was just here the Indian Bride came down from Heaven, 
so we have the best right to it. We can, I think, secure a 
tract of land where the audience can see on one side The 
Phillipse Manor House, and the Old Mill which ground 
grain for Washington's Army, and on the other, the Old 
Dutch Church, so ' Washington ' could enter the very 
house he visited in the Revolution and Ichabod Crane flee 
to the same bridge. 

" I could not get this up alone, especially as it would come 
at a time when my school is not in session, but the Congrega- 
tion of the Old Christ Church, Tarrytown, where Washing- 
ton Irving was warden for many years, could take the matter 
in charge, and I believe would do so. 

" It would cost thousands to produce magnificently with 
the correct historical costumes, etc. The Church could not 
afford to do it unless we could erect seats and charge the 
spectators for viewing the spectacle, but if this could be 
done, the Church being allowed to keep the amount over 
and above the cost for the grounds, expense of costumes, ex- 
pense of drilling, etc., I think we could get the whole town, 
which takes a pride in the historic Church, to enter into it, 
and produce a spectacle on the banks of our great river, to 
which our Dutch guests and Foreign Officers would be in- 
vited guests, but the general public pay for their seats. 



September i8, 1908 539 

"Kindly let me know if this idea would meet with your 
entire approval and if we could arrange for the landing of 
the Clermont ship, as well as the 'Half Moon,' and how 
many days they could spend in Tarrytown, in case it would 
be possible to repeat the pageant, because I am satisfied it 
will be so beautiful and on so superb a scale, that we should 
have to repeat it to allow the crowds who would come to 
see it. 

" We propose to erect seats for 15,000 people, and charge 
from $2 to $10, according to whether they are single seats 
or seats in private boxes, and to engage a master of the 
pageant equal to the one who trained the people at Quebec ; 
and to have the whole historically and artistically 'correct, 
advertising it all over the state, and in magazines, outside 
the state, etc. 

" I shall be very glad to know if this plan is approved 
before we engage the master of pageant and arrange for the 
chorals, musical director, etc. As there would probably be 
1,000 performers, it will take a year to make the plan, ready 
for a creditable presentation." 

Mr. Olcott said that if they were going to have any cele- 
bration lasting several days, the naval procession would 
never get up the river. While not disparaging the sugges- 
tion contained in the letter, he pleaded for a celebration 
which would leave something permanent as its memorial. 
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was a body of 
busy men and they should formulate this celebration so that 
it should be lasting in its effect. He hoped the trustees 
would not fall too readily into plans of ephemeral tinsel. The 
Commission wanted to put an impress on the people com- 
ing after them that would be a dignified reminder of what 
Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton did and what the country 
had done since their times. The Commission had suggested 
as one permanent memorial the Public park at Inwood Hill. 
When such a practical and lasting memorial had been sug- 
gested, it seemed a pity to spend much money on a passing 
show. 

Mr. Stetson said there was a real basis for Mr. Olcott's 
remarks ; but we were drawing money from the State, and 
the State would never consent to the spending of its money 
on a permanent memorial in New York City. We must 



540 Minutes of Executive Committee 

provide an adequate, worthy and dignified celebration on 
the week we have selected. 

The Assistant Secretary advocated the approval of Miss 
Mason's plan. It would cost the Commission nothing, and 
such local celebrations were of very great value. In fact, 
the Commission had already, in its Plan and Scope Report, 
invited the local communities to hold local celebrations. 

Mr. Stetson thought that if we were to have an inter- 
national celebration and entertain foreign guests, we ought 
not to endorse officially such representations,— like the sur- 
render of the British — as might oflfend the susceptibilities 
of the visitors. 

Dr. Kunz recalled the fact that when the Stony Point Bat- 
tlefield State Reservation was dedicated under the auspices 
of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society 
in 1902, the distinguished English artist Sir Philip Burne- 
Jones was a much pleased guest, and gave the Society a 
pensketch representing the artist clasping hands with the 
ghost of Gen. Anthony Wayne. This drawing was repro- 
duced in the Society's Annual Report to the Legislature in 

1903. 

Commander Miller saw nothing in the programme as out- 
lined for the celebration which would prevent some local 
pageant every day of the week. He regarded ^liss Mason s 
project as praiseworthy and desirable, and thought that her 
letter should be published and other local celebrations en- 
couraged. 

\t the conclusion of the discussion it was voted that Miss 
Mason's letter be referred to the same committee to which 
the propositions of Messrs. Stoddard and Parry were re- 
ferred, namely, to ^Ir. Ridder and Mr. Sackett. 

Design for Medal Submitted by American Numismatic 
Society. 

The Secretary read the following letter from ^Ir. 
Edward D. Adams of No. 71 Broadway, New \ork, sub- 
mitting the design for a commemorative medal m accord- 



September i8, 1908 54^ 

ance with the action of the Trustees March 25, 1908, 
recorded on pages 444-445 of the Minutes : 

New York, September 18, 1908. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett, Secretary, Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission, Tribune Building, New York City 
Dear Sir: While preparing for the publication of a medal 
commemorative of Hudson and Fulton on behalf of the 
American Numismatic Society, Dr. George F. Kunz sug- 
gested that such a souvenir of the joint celebration of next 
year might be desired for the use of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission. . 

Pursuant to this suggestion, I have caused the design to 
be adapted for this purpose, and beg to submit the same 
herewith, being photographs of the wax model in an in- 
complete state, but showing the general scope of the design 
and the material facts incorporated in the composition. 

I beg to submit the proposal that should the Commission 
wish to use this design, I will cause the same to be com- 
pleted with such alterations as may be suggested on your 
behalf for its better adaptability to your purposes, and will 
agree, on behalf of the Numismatic Society, to pay one-half 
the expense of the design and the execution of the dies, 
which I calculate would not exceed the sum of $2,000 

It should be further understood that each party shall have 
the right to cause to be struck from these dies as many 
medals and in whatever metal they may wish, but at the ex- 
pense of the partv ordering the same. 

It would be the purpose of my Committee to strike at 
least one hundred examples in silver for distribution among 
the members of the Society, and to the extent that this was 
done, we would wish the sole right to have such medals con- 
secutively numbered on the edge from one upwards ; t le 
examples struck for account of the Commission to be with- 
out numbers. 1 xt • 

Furthermore, that the dies shall be returned to the Numis- 
matic Society within the year following the celebration. 

Respectfully yours, 

Edward D. Adams, 

Chairman, 
Committee on the Publication of Medals 
of the American Numismatic Society. 

The communication was referred to Dr. Kunz, to be 
brought up for consideration at the next meeting of the 
Trustees. 



542 Minutes of Executive Committee 

Tcutatiz'c Plan of the Clermont Submitted. 

Admiral Coghlan reported that under date of June 19, 
1908, he had received a letter from Mr. C. R. Norman, 
President of the Maritime Association of the Port of New- 
York, statino^ that in accordance with the authorization of 
the Board of Directors of that Association he had appointed 
Messrs. Wm. D. Dickey, W. Freeland Dalzell and Frederick 
Bolander a committee to confer in regard to the suggestion 
that the various commercial bodies furnish a replica of the 
Clermont. Admiral Coghlan had conferred with these 
gentlemen and was encouraged to believe that the reproduc- 
tion of the Clermont would be furnished under the auspices 
of the Maritime Association. He laid before the Committee 
a drawing showing the plan of the Clermont prepared as the 
result of his investigations. This was a tentative plan, but 
he did not believe that it would be much changed. It was 
estimated that the cost of construction so as to present the 
outward appearance of the Clermont would be inside of 
$15,000. He stated that Mr. Fred B. Dalzell of the firm of 
Fred B. Dalzell & Co. had ofifered as his contribution to the 
success of the celebration one of the firm's tugs to tow the 
Clermont on the day of the parade. 

The report was received and referred to the Trustees. 

Nominated as AI embers of the Commission. 

Admiral Coghlan proposed Mr. Fred B. Dalzell, above 
mentioned, for appointment as a member of the Commis- 
sion. 

The Chairman proposed Mr. Edward D. Adams of 71 
Broadway, Chairman of the Publication Committee of the 
American Numismatic Society; and Mr. John C. Sinclair of 
the Bowery Savings Bank. 

The names were referred to the Committee on Nomina- 
tions. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



543 
Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

September 23, 1908. 

The twenty-seventh meeting of the Trustees of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held, pursuant to 
call by the President, at the headquarters of the Commis- 
sion in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau Street, New 
York City, Wednesday, September 23, 1908, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present: The President, Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; 
and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. William Berri, Mr. George 
V. Brower, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Edward H. Hall, Mr. 
Samuel V. Hoffman, Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. August F. 
Jaccaci, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Hon. 
William McCarroll, Hon. Benjamin McClung, Mr. William 
C. Muschenheim, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Cornelius 
A. Pugsley, Mr. Herman Ridder, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. 
Edmund Wetmore, and Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Absentees Excused. 
Regrets for absense were received from Mr. R. Fulton 
Cutting, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, ]\Ir. Henry E. 
Gregory, Mr. James A. Hearn, Hon. Warren Higley, Col. 
William Jay, Hon. Seth Low, Commander Jacob W. Miller, 
Mr. Frank D. Millet, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. John E. 
Parsons, Hon. George G. Raymond, President Jacob G. 
Schurman, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Mr. Isaac N. Selig- 
man, Mr. James Speyer, Mr. Spencer Trask, Col. John W. 
Vrooman, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, ]Mr. Charles R. Wilson 
and Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff', and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the Trustees meeting of May 27, 1908, 
having been printed and sent to all the members, were ap- 
proved as printed. 



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Minutes of Commission Corrected. 

The Secretary read a letter from Dr. E. Parmly Brown, 
dated July 8, 1908, requesting a correction of the minutes 
of the annual meeting of the Commission printed on page 
491, as follows: 

"The report of my remarks gives the idea that each 
citizen giving $15 should bring one guest. My intention 
was that each citizen thus contributing paid for himself and 
one of the invited guests." The letter continues with a list 
showing that 9,000 guests paying $15 each would cover the 
expenses not only of themselves but also of 9,000 more 
official guests. 

The correction was ordered printed in the next minutes. 

Minute on the Death of Hon. Or over Cleveland. 
Pursuant to the vote of the Executive Committee Septem- 
ber 18, 1908, the Assistant Secretary presented the follow- 
ing minute on the death of the Hon. Grover Cleveland : 

On June 25, 1908, the Hon. Grover Cleveland, the first- 
named Charter Member of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission, died at his home in Princeton, N. J., at the 
age of 71 years. . 

In the event which has bereaved the Nation of its illus- 
trious ex-President, this Commission has sustained an irre- 
parable loss. Although the pressure of the large affairs 
which engaged Mr. Cleveland's attention prevented his per- 
sonal attendance at our meetings, yet his loyal devotion to 
the State which he served with distinguished honor as Gov- 
ernor from January i, 1883 to January 6, 1885, and his 
realization of the great significance of the events which the 
Commission is preparing to commemorate, caused him to 
lend to this body the influence of his preeminent name as 
one of its Incorporators, Trustees and Vice Presidents and 
as Chairman of the Committee on Official Invitations ; and 
in his correspondence to express his cordial interest in and 
wishes for the success of the plans made for the celebration 

in 1909. , , ... 1 

To the members of this Commission, the loss of his moral 
support and generous sympathy is an occasion for sincere 
sorrow; while the remembrance of his confidence is their 
much prized legacy. 



September 23, 1908 545 

As a testimony of respect to his memory as a Statesman, 
as a Citizen, as a Member of the Commission and as the 
Personal Friend of many of its members be it ^^^.^ 

Resolved, That this minute be spread upon the records 
of the Commission, and that a copy thereof be sent to Mr 
Cleveland's widow, with assurances of the affectionate 
esteem in which she is held by the American people and of 
this Commission's sincere sympathy for her and her chil- 
dren in their great grief. 

The minute was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. 

Treasurer's Report. 
The report of the Treasurer was read as follows : 
To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : 
I have the honor to report the state of the Treasury on 
September 23, 1908, as follows: 

DEBIT. 

To balance on hand May 27, 1908 • • $5357 47 

. CREDIT. 

By paid on approved vouchers : 
7Q. New York Law Journal, advertising annual 

meeting • • • ;^ 

80. J. B. Lyon Co., printing. • • • •. •. • -^ ^/ 

8r. Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings in ^ 

April • 5 

82. Joseph Hawkes, reproducing photos 3 b^ 

83. J. A. Cooke, mimeographing i 35 

84. Polhemus Printing Co., stationery. . . » ^ 

8=; E H. Hall, disbursements ?33 95 

E. H. Hall, salary for May ^50 00 ^^^ ^^ 

Total credit ^K^ II 

Total debit 5>»57 47 

Balance September 23, 1908 $5.532 35 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman. 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 



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Bills Approved for Payment. 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 

J. B. Lyon Co., i,ooo copies minutes of April 22 $32 00 

J. B. Lyon Co., 1,000 manila envelopes 4 50 

J. B, Lyon Co., 800 copies minutes of J\Iay 6 

and 27 46 43 

J. B. Lyon Co., 1,000 letterheads 2 88 

J. B. Lyon Co., 1,000 white envelopes i 35 

Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings, May- 
August 2 76 

Nautical Gazette, 13 extra copies I 95 

Ames & Rollinson, engrossing five 

diplomas $25 00 

Ames & Rollinson, five tin tubes . . 2 00 

2y 00 

Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing letters 4 90 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 3 05 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $47 85 

E. H. Hall, salary, June, July, Au- 
gust, September i.ooo 00 

1,047 85 



$1,174 67 



Appropriation of $150,000 and Reappropriation of $12,500. 

The Secretary reported that Chapter 466 of the Laws of 
1908, (the " Supply Bill,") which became a law May 22, 
1908, contained the following appropriation: 

" The sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars (re. 
12,500), being the unexpended balance of an appropriation 
made by chapter three hundred twenty-five of the laws of 
nineteen hundred six for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission, is hereby reappropriated for the same pur- 
pose, and the further sum of one hundred thousand dollars 
($100,000), is hereby appropriated and made immediately 
available for the same purpose, and the further sum of fifty 
thousand dollars ($50,000), which is hereby appropriated 
and made available therefor on and after January first, 
nineteen hundred nine." 



September 23, 1908 547 

Report of Special Committee on Carnival Parade. 

The Secretary read from the minutes of the Executive 
Committee meeting held September 18, 1908 (see pp. 
528—537), the portions relating to the proposed Carnival 
Parades and the appointment of JNIr. Ridder and Mr. 
Sackett as a special committee to report upon the subject 
to the present meeting of the Trustees. He then read the 
following report : 

The subject of securing the services of suitable persons 
to organize and supervise, on behalf of the Commission, 
certain forms of celebration, and particularly the carnival 
and pageantry features which would require much time in 
their preparation, was, at the last meeting of the Executive 
Committee on Friday, September 18, referred to the under- 
signed as a Committee, with the request that we report at 
the next meeting of the Board of Trustees. 

The appointment of this Committee grew out of the ap- 
pearance before the Executive Committee at that meeting 
of Mr. A. H. Stoddard, the Master of Ceremonies of the 
Mardi Gras Carnival in New Orleans, and of Mr. William 
Parry of New York, who assisted Mr. Lascelles, the Pageant 
IMaster in the recent celebration at Quebec. As what was 
there said by them is fully reported in the minutes of that 
meeting of the Executive Committee it will be unnecessary 
to quote at length from the remarks of those gentlemen in 
substantiation of our conclusions. 

Both of them expressed the strong conviction that the 
main features of the Carnival Parade and of the historical 
pageantry contemplated for our Celebration would require 
the whole of the year that remains to us for satisfactory 
preparations. It is also manifest that such preparations 
must be placed in the hands of competent and experienced 
experts who will devote their time and talents to the under- 
taking, if it is to be. as we all hope and expect, the greatest 
and most instructive exhibition of this character ever pre- 
sented. It will probably be found necessary to secure the 
services of one expert like Mr. Stoddard to supervise and 
manage that portion of the Carnival parade to be held on 
the last day of the Celebration that bears a close analogy, 
so far as concerns the labor of preparation and the details 
of presentation, to the New Orleans Carnival. For the 
historical pageantry and other like portions of the Celebra- 
tion, particularly if they are to be laid out on a large scale 
on the Hudson River, it seems desirable that we secure a 
stage manager who has had such experience as Mr. Parry 



548 Minutes of Trustees 

obtained at Quebec and who has handled other enterprises 
requiring similar executive qualities. It also seems to 3^our 
Committee desirable to secure, if possible, the services of 
some person of commanding abilities in that direction, upon 
whom could be imposed the general business and directorial 
management of the entire Celebration, under the control 
and supervision, of course, of this Board of Trustees and 
of the officers. 

It may be that we shall be so fortunate as to find in one 
person the qualities requisite to the satisfactory performance 
of the duties of general management and of the details of 
the historical pageantry. But the time at the disposal of 
this Committee has not been sufficient to enable them to 
make an investigation sufficiently thorough to justify rec- 
ommendations by them either upon this point or as to the 
qualifications of any person or persons for appointment to 
the two positions first mentioned. 

Your Committee, however, are convinced that some defi- 
nite action on the subject should be taken at this meeting 
of the Board. The time has now arrived for prompt, ex- 
peditious and constant preparation for the Celebration, 
which will begin its programme almost exactly a year from 
the date of the meeting at which this report is presented. 
No harm can come from too prompt action; much injury 
may result from delay. It is unnecessary to point out that 
neither the members of this Board of Trustees nor the offi- 
cers of the Commission are able individually to carry on 
the managerial duties incident to the enterprise. Experts 
trained for such work must be secured. It will be good 
economy to retain the best men obtainable, even though the 
rate of compensation should be high. Much of the ultimate 
success of the Celebration must depend upon them. 

In all the circumstances of the case, therefore, your Com- 
mittee recommend that the matter under consideration be 
referred to the Executive Committee of this Board, with 
full power to appoint, upon the recommendation of the 
President, a General Alanager of the entire Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration, a Manager of the historical pageantry features 
of the Celebration, a Manager of the Carnival Parade of 
the Celebration; or to make one or more of such appoint- 
ments ; and to authorize the officers of the Commission to 
make contracts with such appointee or appointees at such 
rate of compensation and upon such conditions as shall be 
fixed by the Executive Committee. 

Your Committee asks leave to report at a later meeting of 
the Board their recommendations concerning the proposals 



September 23, 1908 549 

contained in the letter of Miss Mason which was referred 
to them. The suggestions of Miss Mason deserve more 
careful consideration than we have as yet been able to give 
to them. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Herman Ridder, Chairman. 
Henry W. Sackett, 

Committee. 

Col. Satterlee moved, for the purpose of bringing the re- 
port before the meeting for discussion, that the report be 
adopted. The motion was seconded. 

Dr. Kunz inquired if it was the intention to turn each 
division of the carnival parade and pageantry over to Mr. 
Parry and ^Ir. Soddard, or whether the Commission would 
retain supervising control. He was afraid that unless there 
were some regulation by the Commission, the carnival might 
run into opera bouffe at the sacrifice of historical correct- 
ness. There was historical ability of a high order available 
within the Commission which ought to be consulted in the 
designing of costumes and the preparation of historical re- 
productions : and if the costumes were historically accurate 
they might be welcomed by some such institution as the 
New York Historical Society whose distinguished President, 
T^Ir. S. V. Hoffman, was present at this meeting. He also 
suggested that if a contract should be made along the 
lines indicated in the report just read, a clause should be 
inserted to provide against unforseen contingencies, which 
would permit the Commission to cancel the contract on pay- 
ment of a suitable compensation. 

In answer to Dr. Kunz's question, the President read 
from the report the clause indicating that the management 
should be " under the control and supervision, of course, of 
this Board of Trustees and of the Officers." He added that 
if the final responsibility concerning the contract were left 
with him, he would see that Dr. Kunz's suggestions were 
embodied in the contract. 

Col Satterlee said he was not sufficiently familiar with 
the former proceedings of the Commission to know whether 
it were committed to the carnival idea or not. 



550 Minutes of Trustees 

The President replied that the Commission was honorably 
committed to the idea of a Carnival Parade but not as yet 
to an historical pageant. Mr. Ridder, Chairman of the 
Carnival Parade Committee, had already begun tentative 
arrangements with the German singing societies with such 
a parade in view. 

Col. Satterlee said that he believed it was possible to make 
a great success of the historical pageant; but if done here, 
It must be done better than anywhere else, and second to 
none. New Yorkers could do in six months what would 
require a year's preparation in Quebec or New Orleans. 
The practical problem which confronted the Commission, 
however, was to find a suitable place for it. He doubted 
the advisability of a historical pageant on the river. The 
floats would be so far from the spectators on land that the 
figures would be very small and would be recognizable only 
with an opera glass. Only great mass effects could be pro- 
duced advantageously at such a distance. Furthermore, the 
idea of repeating the pageant at various points up the river 
did not comport with the suggestion that lineal descendants 
of the historical characters take the impersonations; for 
such persons, and indeed the other participants, would 
hardly care to travel from place to place for the purpose 
of a series of appearances. He thought the Commission 
should get down to the idea of holding the historical parade 
in the avenues of New York City, possibly in connection 
with Central Park or Van Cortlandt Park. 

Air. Stetson said that this subject was certainly as im- 
portant as any matter that would come before the Commis- 
sion and should not be decided without careful deliberation. 
Those who were present at the Executive Committee meet- 
mg Friday must have been impressed with the sagacity of 
Mr. Parry's remarks. Mr. Stoddard's proposition was also 
set forth by that gentleman very ably,— as ably, probably, 
as it could have been,— but Mr. Stetson was in great doubt 
as to whether the New Orleans plan was in itself what we 
wished. He therefore felt that the report of the Committee 
should be received but not adopted; and that it should be 



September 23, 1908 551 

printed in the minutes and sent to all the members, with 
the notice that it will be made the special order of business 
at a future meetino^. 

Carnival Parade Report Made Special Order for October 14. 
Mr. Stetson therefore moved as a substitute for .Col. 
Satterlee's motion, that the report be received and printed 
in the minutes ; and that it be sent to all the members with 
notice that it will be the special order of business at an 
adjourned meeting of the Board of Trustees, to be held on 
Wednesday, October 14, 1908, at 3 p. m. Col. Satterlee 
accepted the substitute. 

j\Ir. Sackett said he did rise to oppose Mr. Stetson's 
motion. On the contrary, he approved of it. But he hoped 
that the Commission would not rely too much on the ca- 
pacity of New Yorkers, alluded to by Col. Satterlee, to ac- 
complish in six months what would require a year in New 
Orleans or Quebec. New Yorkers have that capacity ; but 
it should also be observed that no people has the capacity 
of postponement more highly developed than the people of 
New York. He pointed to the lack of readiness which 
caused the delay in the opening of the Philadelphia Exposi- 
tion and the postponement of the Columbian Exposition 
from the anniversary year 1892 to 1893 and the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition from 1903 to 1904, and cautioned 
against unnecessary delay. While it was right to postpone 
the consideration of this report, he felt that the Trustees 
should see to it that from this date till the opening of the 
celebration, not a day went by without accomplishing some- 
thing practical in the direction of preparation. 

Mr. Berri said that as there was to be a celebration in 
Philadelphia from October 5 to October 10, in which Mr. 
Parry had charge of the pageantry, it might be advisable 
for members of the Commission to go there and see how 
it was conducted. Information as to methods, cost, etc., 
could be obtained from those in charge, and the members 
could judge for themselves how successful the afifair proved. 
If this feature should be decided on for New York and the 
Commission desired to repeat it, Mr. Berri wanted to present 



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the claim of the Borough of Brooklyn for a presentation 
of it. There were one and a half million people in Brook- 
lyn who would like to see the pageant. The school children 
could not go over to Manhattan; and if they could, the line 
of march could not be made long enough for them all to 
see it. If a reproduction were given in Brooklyn, the en- 
thusiastic cooperation of the local societies could be de- 
pended upon. 

Mr. Ridder said that everyone was in sympathy witli Mr. 
Berri's remarks. It was possible that the Carnival Parade 
might be given in Alanhattan on Saturday, October 2, and 
repeated in Brooklyn the following Saturday. As to attend- 
ing the Philadelphia celebration, Mr. Ridder said he would 
be there, as he was to deliver an address in the Academy 
of Music on that occasion. 

Dr. Kunz said that in judging of the success of the Phila- 
delphia pageants, the Trustees should make allowance for 
the tardiness of the Philadelphia managers in making their 
arrangements with ]\Ir. Parry. The latter had said that he 
did not have time to do what was really necessary in Phila- 
delphia. 

After some further discussion, Mr. Stetson's motion was 
unanimously adopted. 

Members Requested to Attend Philadelpliia Celebration. 

]\Ir. Berri moved that a committee be appointed by the 
President, of which the President should be a member, to 
attend the celebration of Founders' Week in Philadelphia 
from October 5 to October 10, 1908, and report their obser- 
vations to the Trustees. Carried. 

After the President had named i\Ir. Berri. Dr. Kunz, Mr. 
Muschenheim, ]\Ir. Ridder and Col. Satterlee as members 
of the Committee. Mr. Ridder suggested that the President 
call for volunteers. 

It was therefore voted that the Secretary be requested to 
send a notice to all the members of the Board of Trustees 
asking them to attend the Philadelphia celebration. 



September 23, 1908 553 

The President stated that it was understood that the ap- 
pointed and volunteer members of the Committee should 
bear their own expenses. 

Medal Design Referred to Sub-Couiinittce on Historical 

Exhibits. 

Dr. Kunz presented a report on the subject of the design 
for a commemorative medal submitted to the Executive 
Committee by the American Numismatic Society, the sub- 
stance of which is embodied in the letter from Mr. Edward 
D. Adams printed on page 541 of the minutes. He added 
that the med.al had been designed by Emil Fuchs, an ex- 
pert medalist, who had designed four or five important 
medals for Mr. Archer ]\I. Huntington, President of the 
American Numismatic Society ; and that the design had 
already received high professional approval. It was the 
idea that medals in gold, costing $300 or $400 each, be struck 
for the rulers of nations; copies in silver, costing $10, $15 
or $20 each, depending on the size, be struck for Admirals 
and other especially distinguished guests ; and that medals 
in bronze costing perhaps $5 each, be struck for minor dele- 
gates and members of the Commission. 

Col. Satterlee inquired if it were the intention to permit 
the Numismatic Society as well as this Commission to strike 
medals. 

The Secretarv read Air. Adams' letter answering that 
point in the affirmative. 

Col. Satterlee thought that if the medal were to be struck 
without limit, it would be deprived of its value to a monarch. 
The value of a medal depends very largely on its rarity. 

Dr. Kunz explained that the medal was intended as the 
joint production of this Commission and the Numismatic 
Society. By the cooperation of the latter, the accuracy and 
standing of the medal in the numismatic world were ensured. 

]\Ir. Berri said he understood that the medals for the 
members of this Commission were to be paid for by them- 
selves. He did not approve of Aldermen, Commissioners, 
etc., having medals struck for themselves at public expense. 

The President said that the value of such a medal as that 
proposed would be very great. It would provide perhaps 



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the most accurate recognition of the celebration that could 
be devised. If Holland sends us the " Half ]\Ioon/' we 
should send something in return to go into the Royal 
Archives. If England should participate by sending a rep- 
resentation, we should send a gold medal to King Edward. 
One should also be sent to the President of the United 
States. Those sent abroad would remain forever in the 
Royal Treasuries and be perpetual memorials of the cele- 
bration. 

Mr. Stetson suggested that Col. Satterlee's objection 
might be met by entering into an agreement with the Numis- 
matic Society that no medal should be struck in gold except 
under the direction of the Commission. He therefore 
moved that Mr. Adams' letter be acknowledged with the 
sincere appreciation of the Commission ; and that the sub- 
ject matter be referred to such committee as the President 
should deem advisable. Carried. 

The President referred the matter to the sub-Committee 
on Historical Exhibits, of which Dr. Kunz is Chairman. 

Abominated for Appointment to Commission. 

Mr. Fitch, Qiairman of the Nominating Committee, pre- 
sented a report recommending the appointment by the 
Mayor of New York, of the following named gentlemen as 
members of the Commission: Mr. Edward D. Adams, of 
No. 71 Broadway, financier, trustee of the IMetropolitan 
Museum of Art, member of many art and scientific organ- 
izations, and chairman of the Publication Committee of the 
American Numismatic Society ; Mr. Frederick B. Dalzell, 
of the marine firm of Frederick B. Dalzell & Co., No. 70 
South street ; Mr. Morris P. Ferris, of No. 35 Nassau 
street, counsellor-at-law and member of several patriotic 
societies; Mr. John C. Sinclair of the Union League Club, 
I East 39th street, a retired banker and manufacturer ; 
and William G. Ver Planck, descendant of one of the old 
Dutch families of New York and counsellor^at-law at No. 
149 Broadway. 

The report was adopted. 



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Admiral Coghlan Elected a Vice-President, 

Mr. Fitch also presented a report nominating Rear 
Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., as a Vice-President 
and Hon. Robert W. DeForest as a Trustee, respectively, 
in place of the Hon. Grover Cleveland, deceased. 

The report was received. 

Mr. Berri moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast 
a single ballot in behalf of the meeting for Admiral Coghlan 
for Vice-President. The motion was unanimously adopted ; 
and the Secretary having cast the ballot as directed, the 
President declared Admiral Coghlan unanimously elected 
a Vice-President. 

Hon. Robert W. DeForest Elected a Trustee. 

Mr. Berri also moved that the Secretary be instructed 
to cast a single ballot in behalf of the meeting for Mr. De- 
Forest for Trustee. The motion was unanimously carried ; 
and the ballot having been cast as directed, the President 
declared Mr. DeForest unanimously elected. 

Request for Appointment of Neiv Jersey Members 
Rencivcd. 

Mr. Stetson called attention to the action of Gov. Stokes 
of New Jersey, recorded on page 389 of the minutes, 
pursuant to proceedings recorded on pages 139, 191 and 192 
recommending to Gov. Hughes for appointment on this 
Commission ten distinguished citizens of New Jersey, in- 
cluding four ex-Governors ; also to the statement on page 
498 of the minutes that Gov. Hughes had received the 
recommendations but had been too preoccupied to take 
the matter up. In view of the desirability of having New 
Jersey represented in the preparations for a celebraition 
affecting that state as well as New York, and in view also of 
the prominence of the gentlemen proposed by Gov. Stokes, 
Mr. Stetson suggested the propriety of the President's writ- 
ing to Gov. Hughes and inquiring if it would be agreeable 
to him to make the appointments. 

The President said that he would be happy to act on Mr. 
Stetson's suggestion. 

Appointed by Mayor McClellan. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of Mayor 
McClellan, dated June 15, 1908, appointing Hon. Richard 



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Young and Air. George Wilson as members of this Com- 
mission in accordance with the recommendation of the 
Trustees. The letter was ordered on file and the Secretary 
directed to place the names of the gentlemen on the roll 
of the Commission. 

Certificates Sent to Foreign Correspondent Councillors. 
The Secretary reported that in accordance with the 
action of the Trustees recorded on page 515 he had caused 
to be engrossed for the five Foreign Correspondent Coun- 
cillors, Mr. C. G. Hooft, Dr. E. W. Moes, Dr. A. Bredius, 
Dr. W. Martin and Mr. D. Hudig certificates of their 
election in the following form : 

THE HUDSOX-FULTON CELKRRATIOX COM MISSION. 

Chartered by Chapter 325 of the Laws of 1906 of the State of 
New York. 

This Certifies that the Trustees of this Commissioii 
which has been appointed by the Governor of the State 
and the Mayor of the City of New York to arrange for 
the Celebration in 1909 of the 300th Anniversary of the 
Discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in 1609 
and the looth Anniversary of the First Sticcessful Appli- 
cation of Steam to the Navigation thereof by Robert Fulton 
in 1807, reposing Confidence in the Character, Ability and 
Public Spirit of 

The Honorable C. G. Hooft 

have unanimously elected him to be a 

Foreign Correspondent Councillor 

of the Commission. 

In Witness Whereof, the Commission 
has caused its corporate seal to be affixed 
to these presents and the same to be 
(Seal of the) signed by its President and its Secretary 
(Commission) ajt the City of New York, State of New 
York, U. S. A., this fourth day of July 
in the year one thousand nine hundred 
and eight. 

Stewart L. Woodford, 

President. 

FIenry W^ Sackett, 

Secrctarv. 



September 23, 1908 557 

These had been sent by the hand of Mr. Bergen who 
visited Holland during the past summer, and had been 
acknowledged with much appreciation. 

Call from Prof. H. Bavinck. 

The Secretary reported that on September 9 he had been 
honored by a call from Dr. H. Bavinck, a Professor of 
the Free I^niversity of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, com- 
mended b)' a letter from the Dutch Minister of Foreign 
Affairs Van Swinderen. Dr. Bavinck stated that he visited 
this country to lecture at Princeton University- in Novem- 
ber and to arrange for the publication of his lectures; that 
he was a member of the Committee appoint-ed in Holland 
to cooperate with this Commission and that he desired to 
learn what he could do. during his travels in this country, 
to enlist the cooperation of the Dutch people in America 
with those in Holland in sharing in the celebration. After 
an informal exchange of views, Dr. Bavinck was requested 
to confer further with this Commission at his convenience. 

Dr. Bavinck left with the Commission a copy of a cir- 
cular, of which the following in a translation: 

Half Moon Committee in Holland. 
(Translation.) 

HUDSON-FULTON MEMORIAL CELEBRATION. 
I 609- I 809- I 909. 

On the 8th day of January, 1609, " the Directors of the 
East India Company of the Chamber of Amsterdam " 
closed a still existing contract with commission to " Henry 
?Iudson, Englishman," to discover, in a " small ship or 
yacht " to be furnished to him, a passage to China by 
going to the northeast by way of Nova Zembla. The ship 
placed at his disposal was named the Half Moon. On 
April 4, 1609, Hudson sailed from Amsterdam with this 
ship, and finding no passage tn the northeastward, turned 
his course to the westward and on September 9 following 
sailed by Alanhattan Island, the present New York, up the 
stream which is named after him the Hudson River. 

Two hundred years thereafter, in September, 1809. Rob- 
ert Fulton, with Livingstone, the inventor of steam naviga- 



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tion, and the first one to navigate the Hudson river v^ith 
an entirely steam-driven vessel, received a monopoly for 
steam-navigation on this stream. 

These two events they desire to celebrate at New York 
in September, 1909, in an impressive manner and with great 
splendor, while at the same time the Holland Society will 
unveil a statue of William the Silent, the model for which 
has been designed by Henry ]\I. Shrady, whose name has 
already been made by his statues of Washington and Grant. 
The sum of a hundred thousand guilders '•' has been col- 
lected for this statue. 

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, which has 
been formed for the management of these grand celebra- 
tions, consists of 246 persons. Among their vice presidents 
are Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan and Joseph H. 
Choate, who are also well known among us. 

This Commission, already formed in 1906, has proposed 
for the celebration the following plan:t 

1. Saturday, 25 September, thanksgiving and prayer in 
the synagogues. 

2. Sunday, 26 September, thanksgiving and prayer in 
the various Christian churches. 

3. Monday, 2^ September, arrival in the harbor of 
New York of reproductions of the Half Moon and the 
Clermont, Fulton's first steamboat ; the reception of the 
guests of honor; and at the same time the inauguration of 
an Indian village on the shore. 

4. Tuesday, 28 September, commemoration in all vmi- 
versities, high and common schools of the State of New 
York ; and in the evening in New York City, in each of the 
five boroughs, literary meetings where men of distinction 
shall deliver orations. 

5. Wednesday, 29 September, historical procession on 
land with historical and allegorical representations of every- 
thing connected with American labor and industry, arranged 
as an American carnival. In the evening, reception of the 
guests of honor in the Department of the East on Gov- 
ernor's Island. 

6. Thursday, 30 September, dedication of a new park 
and unveiling of monuments in various places in towns 
along the Hudson River accompanied by aquatic sports. 
In the evening, great music festival in New York City. 



*$40,ooo. fThe programme recommended by the Plan and Scope 
Committee April 22, 1908, differs somewhat from this outline. See 
pp. 459-467- 



September 23, 1908 559 

7. Friday, i October, Naval Parade of a procession of 
war-ships, merchant vessels and mail-boats from New York 
to Newburgh, with land festivals on both banks of the 
river. The Half Moon and the Clermont will lead the way. 
Bon fires will be kindled on both banks after sunset. A 
similar procession of ships will come down from Albany 
to Newburgh and both processions will unite at Newburgh. 

And 8. Saturday, 2 October, return of the Half IMoon 
and the Clermont to New York City; children's festivals 
along the whole coast on both banks ; and in the evening 
the celebration will end with an illumination of the whole 
of New York City and with the lighting of a monumental 
historical firework. 

Taking cognizance of these plans, the question immedi- 
ately arose whether the Netherlands was not called, on its 
own part, also to participate in these festivities. 

At the time of the celebration of the great Columbus 
festivals, Spain sent across the sea fac-similes of the three 
caravels of Columbus. Should not tlie way lie open also 
to us now to build a fac-simile of the Half Moon to sail 
within Sandy Hook on the third festival-day? 

This idea, discussed at New York by our then envoy to 
Washington, Jonkheer de Marees van Swinderen, now Min- 
ister of Foreign Affairs, found warm approbation with the 
parties interested. Historically, the Netherlands itself was 
indeed concerned with the event to be celebrated ; New 
York, shortly afterward founded by our people, formerly 
bore the name of New Amsterdam; to descend from the 
families of Old Holland is still considered in the entire 
state of New York as a patent of nobility. 

Knowing that our non-participation in the celebration in 
America would be regarded as a disappointment and would 
thus injure us, the Messrs. Vice Admiral Ellis, .E. Baron 
Mackay and J. C. de Marez Oyens invited a small number 
of gentlemen from the capital, from the residential City and 
from Rotterdam to a preliminary conference on this matter. 
This meeting took place at The Hague on April 1 1 . 

Those taking part in this meeting were unanimously of 
the opinion that our country must not hold back. The 
glory of our past as well as the national interest in the tie 
binding us to America should compel us to participate. And 
as little difference of opinion existed there concerning the 
question as to how our participation should manifest itself. 

It was found desirable to form a Netherland Committee 
for this object. This Committee would send a fac-simile 
of the Half ]Moon to New York Harbor in September, 



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1909; and delegates from the Netherlands should go to 
show their interest in the great New York Celebration, in 
order at the same time to offer the Half Moon as a gift; 
while at the same time it might be supposed that our Gov- 
ernment would add luster to this Dutch manifestation by- 
sending a squadron. 

The money needed for the building of the Half Moon, 
for her equipment and crew, as well as for the presentation 
at New York is estimated at the minimum of 75,000 florins * 
— an amount that will possibly be exceeded. 

Such a Committee was thereupon appointed, and entered 
upon its duties by immediately appealing to the great pub- 
lic of the Netherlands in order to collect the requisite sum 
by large and small contributions. 

But the Committee does not intend to stop here. It must 
not be forgotten that in former times a great number of 
their fellow-countrymen emigrated to America, who, though 
permanently settled, especially in Michigan. Iowa and 
Illinois, nevertheless did not lose the memories of the old 
Fatherland and always knew how to unite patriotic senti- 
ment for America with a warm sympathy for the Nether- 
lands. They have therefore invited their fellow member, 
Prof. Dr. H. Bavinck. who had the intention shortly to 
visit the new Dutch colony, to bring this matter also to the 
attention of the families of Dutch descent. 

It would be so beautiful if the Old Netherlands could 
then unite with these new colonists of Dutch descent as a 
deputation at New York in the Hudson-Fulton celebra- 
tion, in order there to pay homage to the achievements of 
our common forefathers especially in the state of New 
York during the days of our glory. 

The offer of the Half Moon to the Committee in charge 
of the Festivities at New York would then be a gift of 
honor to America, as well from the ancient Fatherland of 
the new Dutch colony as from that colony itself, and 
through the fund jointly contributed for this purpose the 
bond which, as members of the same race, we still feel 
toward each other, could impressively manifest itself. 

The Committee is composed as follows : 

Patron. 
His Royal Highness, the Prince of the Netherlands, Duke 
of Mecklenburg. 

*$3o,ooo. 



September 23, 1908 561 

Honorary President 

A'ice Admiral A. G. Ellis, Adjutant extraordinary of Her 
Majesty the Queen. 

Air. ^E. Baron Alackay, ^Minister of State, at The H^ague, 
President. 

J. T. Cremer, President of the Netherland Commercial 
Association, at Amsterdam, 

E. P. de Monchy Rzn., President of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, at Rotterdam, Vice-Presidents. 

J. W. P. van Hoogstraten. Adjutant of Her Majesty the 
Queen, at the Hague, First Secretary. 
"^ ]. Heldrmg, at I'he Hague, Second Secretary. 

Mr. R. van Rees, at Amsterdam, Treasurer. 

The Directors of the Netherland-American Steam Navi- 
gation Company, 

Mr. J. Baron d'Aulnis de Eourouill, Professor at the 
State University at Utrecht. 

Dr. H. Bavinck, Professor at the Free University at 
Amsterdam. 

Dr. P. J. Blok, Professor at the State University at 
Leiden. 

S. P. van Eeghen, President of the Chamber of Com- 
merce at Amsterdam. 

Dr. A. Kuyper, ex-AIinister of Interior Affairs, at the 
Hague. 

Mr. W. F. van Leeuwen. Burgomaster of Amsterdam. 

C. L. I^der, Director of Shipbuilding at the Department 
of Marine, at the Hague. 

Mr. F. S. van Nierop, member of the First Chamber of 
the States General, at Amsterdam. 

Mr. J. C. de \larez Oyens, ex-Minister of Water De- 
partment, Commerce and Industry, at the Hague. 

Mr. L. H. W Regout, member of the First Chamber of 
the States General; at Maastricht. 

Mr. W. J. van Welderen Baron Rengers, member of the 
First Chamber of the States General, at Leeu warden. 

Jonkheer Mr. J. Roell, President of the Second Chamber 
of the States General, at the Hague. 

Mce-Admiral Jonkheer J. A. Roell, Adjutant extraordi- 
nary of Her ^Majesty the Queen, at the Hague. 

T. E. N. Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye van 
Hoevelaken, President of the First Chamber of the States 
General, at the Hague. 

J. E. Scholten, member of the First Chamber of the 
States General, at Groningen. 



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D. W. Stork, member of the First Chamber of the States 
General at Hengelo. 

Vice-Admiral J. H. L. J. Baron Sweerts de Landas Wy- 
borgh, Director and Commandant of -Marine, at Amsterdam. 

]\Ir. C. J- Baron van Tuijll van Serooskerken, Treasurer 
of the Crown domains, at Arnhem. 

J. J. G. Baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Adjutant extraor- 
dinary of Her Majesty the Queen, at Arnhem. 

Jonkheer P. J. J. S. M. van der Does de Willebois, mem- 
ber of the First Chamber of the States General, at 's Herto- 
genbosch. 

Mr. A. R. Zimmerman, Burgomaster of Rotterdam. 

Exhibit Representing Holland Life Proposed. 

The Secretary read the following letter from Mr. Eben 
E. Olcott, a Trustee of the Commission : 

New York, September 23, 1908. 
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, Tribune 
Building, City. 

Gentlemen. — I beg to send an extract from a letter re- 
ceived from Miss Van Santvoord while she was in Holland, 
suggesting that Baroness Harinxma and Miss Kuyper, a 
daughter of the former Prime Minister of Holland, should 
get up a collection representative of Holland life for an 
exhibit next fall. The Dutch Government paid $4,000 for 
the Russian exhibit. I have written to know whether this 
sum will fully cover the expense. It is possible that the 
$4,000 was merely a contribution by the Russian Govern- 
ment, and that Holland paid part of the exhibit. 

I send herewith a Journal in Dutch, illustrating and de- 
scribing the exhibit. I believe that it will be a fine thing to 
encourage ; no doubt the American Museum would grant 
us space for this exhibit, which might be rushed here early 
in the year so as to attract attention to the fall celebration. 

I regretted that I had to run away from the Executive 
meeting the other day to attend another engagement. Still 
more that I cannot possibly get down this afternoon, as 
I wrote you from the house this morning. 

Very truly, 

E. E. Olcott. 

Accompanying the foregoing was the following extract 
from Miss Van Santvoord's letter: 

Miss Kuyper was telling me the other day of an ex- 
hibition of the " Child-Life of Holland " that the Baroness 



September 23, 1908 563 

of Harinxma and she got up for Russia, and which was 
received there with great interest and enthusiasm. 

It seems that for centuries toys have been made which 
have been exact reproductions of furniture, such as minute 
cabinets made w^ith the same carving as the large ones, 
models of windmills, carriages, foot-stoves, cooking utensils, 
etc. Consequently these toys handed down from generation 
to generation are really reproductions of the old Holland 
life — say of the time of Hendrick Hudson. No other na- 
tion has anything like it. Besides this, in the Museums of 
Holland are dolls dressed in the great variety of costumes 
of the different provinces of this land. 

Everything being small, a more interesting exhibition 
could be made for a comparatively small expense. It oc- 
curred to me that if something of this sort could be taken 
over to New York and exhibited in connection with the 
Hendrick Hudson Celebration, that it would give a great 
deal of local color and charm. 

Miss Kuyper says that if the Tri-Centennial Committee 
would care to have them do it, that Baroness Harinxma 
and she would be willing to organize it — getting together 
the models from the Museums, through the help of the 
present Prime Minister, and having some made, and buy- 
ing others." 

Mr. Olcott's letter and accompanying extract were re- 
ferred to the Plan and Scope Committee. 

Collegiate Reformed Church Offers to Participate. 
A letter dated 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, June 8, 
1908, from the Rev. Edward B. Coe, was read, stating that 
the Consistory of the Collegiate Reformed Church, — the 
oldest Church in the city — had appointed a committee of 
which he was Chairman to consider what action should be 
taken by the Church looking to participation in the religious 
observances of the celebration. Referred to the Committee 
on Memorials, of which Mr. Bergen is chairman. 

Dobbs Ferry Improvement Society Tenders Cooperation. 

A letter from the Dobbs Ferry Improvement Society, 
dated Aug. 17, 1908, was read, tending the cooperation of 
that Society. 

The Secretary was requested to acknowledge the letter 
with thanks and to make suitable suggestions. 



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Exempt Firemen of Xezc York Apply for Place in Land 

Parade. 
A letter from ]\Ir. Thomas Fitzpatrick. Assistant Fore- 
man of Exempt Firemen of the former city of New York, 
dated Aug. 24, 1908, was read, applying for a place in the 
land parade. Referred to the Carnival Parade Committee. 

Daugliters of the Empire State Apply for Place in Xaz'al 

Parade. 
A letter from Mrs. Gerard Bancker, President of the 
Daughters of the Empire State, dated June 27, 1908, was 
read, asking to be authorized to secure a suitable boat at 
their own expense and to be assigned a desirable place in 
the water parade ; also that the Society be represented on the 
Reception Committee. The application concerning the boat 
was referred to the Xaval Parade Committee. 

Resignation of Col. Jay as Chai>-man of Banquet Committee. 

A letter from Col. Wm. Jay, dated June 30. 1908, was 
read, regretting that on account of his health and protracted 
absence abroad, he must insist on his resignation as Chair- 
man of the Official Bancjuet Committee. 

The resignation was accepted with much regret and with 
the thanks of the Trustees for the valuable services al- 
ready rendered, and the President was authorized to ap- 
point Col. Jay's successor. 

Report of Iinvood Hill Park Committee. 
The Secretary read a .letter from "Sir. John E. Parsons, 
Chairman of the Inwood Hill Park Committee, dated Sep- 
tember 15, 1908, stating that all through the summer he 
had had more or less negotiation about Inwood Hill with 
the result that one of the owners on the west side of the 
Hill had agreed to sell at $2,000 a lot, buildings to be added. 
The land on the east side of the Hill is naturally very much 
less valuable. On any such basis, Mr. Parsons thought that 
the Hill should be acquired at something less than our 
original estimate, as stated to the Mayor. The letter re- 
ferred to the combination formed by one of the owners on 
the basis of $3,500 a lot, the aggregate of which would be 



September 23, 1908 565 

nearly double our original estimate and a total which Mr. 
Parsons would not feel justified in approving. If authority- 
could be given to acquire parcels the price of which is satis- 
factory, he believed the adverse combination could be broken 
and a successful conclusion reached. Our difficulty was 
tlie financial condition of the City. He suggested that much 
could be accomplished if members of the Executive Com- 
mittee would speak to the Mayor on this subject. 
The report was received and ordered on file. 

MonuDiciit to Henry Hudson on Spuytcn Duyvil Hill 

Proposed. 

The Secretary read a letter dated June 20, 1908, from 
Mr. J. J. McKelvey, Secretary of the Park District Pro- 
tective League, of which J\Ir. James Douglas is President, 
referring to the lack of progress thus far on the proposed 
Pludson Memorial Bridge across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek 
from Inwood Hill to Spuyten Duyvil Hill and proposing 
to erect a monument to Hudson on the latter eminence at 
the northerly terminus of the proposed bridge. The letter 
continues : 

" Subject to the approval of your Celebration Commis- 
sion we intend to initiate a movement to raise, by private 
subscription, the necessary funds for such monument. We 
realize that any monument of this character must, in design 
and structure, be acceptable to the Municipal authorities 
and meet' with the approval of the Municipal Art Com- 
mission. The expense of such a monument cannot well be 
determined in advance, but with a substantial sum sub- 
scribed as a nucleus to the necessary amount to be raised, 
we believe that many citizens would be glad to take part 
in the completion of the fund and that there would be no 
difficulty in raising whatever amount might be deemed 
necessary. 

" We beg to ask an expression as to the views of your 
Commission : 

" (i) Upon the merit of the plan suggested for a Hen- 
drick Hudson monument. 

" (2) Upon the desirability of having some ceremony 
with respect to such monument, for example the laying of 
its corner-stone, a part of the commemorative exercises, 
of which vour Commission will have charge. 



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" If the plan meets with your approval, we beg to request 
that you will appoint some Committee to cooperate wath 
those who have expressed a willingness to initiate the 
movement, in the securing of appropriate designs, the as- 
certaining of the probable cost of construction and the 
securing of further contributions necessary to complete the 
amount required. 

" We are enclosing herewith as evidence of the interest 
in this project which has been manifested by a number of 
our members to whom it has been submitted, a paper 
indicative of their willingness to further the plan by their 
personal contributions. 

Yours very truly, 

Park District Protective League, 
J. J. McKelvey, 

Secretary. 

" The undersigned express their approval of the plan 
proposed by the Park District Protective League for the 
erection of a suitable memorial to Hendrick Hudson at a 
suitable site to be selected near the Northerly terminus of 
the proposed Hudson Memorial Bridge and request the co- 
operation of the Hudson-Fulton Commission in the carry- 
ing out of such plan. They also suggest that in the pro- 
gram for the Celebration there be included appropriate 
commemorative exercises in connection with said monu- 
ment. 

"As evidence of their interest in the plan and willingness 
to help carry it out they subscribe the amounts set opposite 
their respective names. Said amounts to be payable to 
such permanent Committee or Body, as shall take charge 
of the erection of said monument and to be used towards 
the cost of the construction thereof. 

Names. Amounts. 

Estate of Isaac G. Johnson $1 ,000 00 

Wm. C. Muschenheim 1,000 00 

Emma M. Radley 500 00 

Henry Kroger 500 00 

Along the Hudson Co.. by J. J. McKelvey, 

Sec'y 1 .000 00 

J. J. McKelvey 500 00 

Cleveland H. Dodge 1,000 00 " 

The communication was referred to the Committee on 
Memorials. 



September 23, 1908 567 

Description of Half Moon Confirmed. 
In the absence of Admiral Coghlan, the Assistant Secre- 
tary reported that the Admiral had received the following 
letter from Vice-Admiral Roell of the Royal Dutch Navy, 
confirming the description of the " Half Moon " as con- 
tained in Admiral Coghlan's letter printed on pages 501- 

508 of the minutes : 

3rd Bosch street 3. 
The Hague 
June the ist-08. 
Dear Admiral, 

I received your letter of May the 12th containing infor- 
mation with regard to the " Half Moon," for which many 
thanks. I was pleased to see that the information you gave 
coincides with our own investigations about the said vessel. 
We are now ready to fulfill our plan of constructing a ship 
entirely similar to the " Halve Maan." 

Believe me sincerely yours, 

J. A. Roell, 

Vice Adm. Retired. 
The letter was ordered on file. 

Cost of Naval Entertainment. 

The Secretary laid before the meeting a letter from 
Lieut. W. F. Bricker, U. S. N., aide to Admiral Goodrich, 
Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, dated May 28, 
1908, giving information concerning the cost of enter- 
taining foreign men of war and expressing his readiness 
to confer with the Commission and offer any information 
which his experience with the Atlantic fleet might suggest. 

Also a letter from Mr. G. T. Sheppard, Secretary of the 
Jamestown Exposition, dated Norfolk, Va., May 23, 1908, 
giving information concerning the entertainment of visit- 
ing ships at Jamestown. 

Ordered on file for future reference. 

Death of Mr. IViUiani L. Stone. 
Gen. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Official 
Literary Exercises, reported the death, on June 11, 1908, 
of a valued member of his Committee, Mr. Wm. L. Stone ; 
and the Secretary was directed to make note of the same 
in the minutes. 



568 ]\Iinutes of Trustees 

Air. Stone was a native of New York City where he was 
born in 1835. He graduated from Brown University in 
1858 with the degrees of A. M. and LL. B., and was ad- 
mitted to the bar the following year. He was an eloquent 
speaker and proHfic writer on historical subjects, his writ- 
ings including a Life of John Hay, late Secretary of State, 
who was his bedfellow at Brown, and about 90 sketches in 
Appleton's Genealogical Cyclopedia and Appleton's Bio- 
graphical Cyclopedia. His home was in Mount Vernon, 
N. Y. He was highly esteemed as a gentleman and a 
scholar, and his death deprives the Commission of one of 
its most valuable members. 

The President announced the appointment of Mr. Ed- 
ward Hagaman Hall to the vacancy in the Committee on 
C)fficial Literary Exercises caused by Mr. Stone's death. 

A Coniuiittcc 011 Hudson Rk'cr Scenery Authorized. 

Iw the absence of Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman 
of the Plan and Scope Committee, the Assistant Secretary 
reported that since the last meeting of the Trustees, Mr. 
Seward had received letters as follows urging the Commis- 
sion to take some more definite action looking toward the 
preservation of the scenery of the Hudson River: From 
Mr. F. P. Albert of New^ York, June 16. 1908; Mr. George 
F. Neidlinger of West Park, N. Y.. July 4, 1908: Mr. 
Charles R. Lamb of New York, July 7, 1908; Capt. George 
A. White of New York, Aug. 10, 1908; Mr. J. Horace 
McFarland, President of the American Civic Association, 
Philadelphia, Aug. 19, 1908; Mr. R. U. Johnson of New 
York, Associate Editor of the Century Magazine, Sept. 9, 
1908 ; and Mr. F. R. Cruikshank of New York, Sept. 22, 
1908. Strong editorials had also appeared in the New 
York Times, the Brooklyn Standard LTnion, and other lead- 
ing papers expressing the view that the Commission should 
do something to promote the movement. These and other 
expressions from influential sources, both editorial and per- 
sonal. Mr. Hall said, would seem to justify the Commission 
in taking some active steps to encourage the movement. 



September 23, 1908 569 

He believed that a Committee could be appointed which 
could lend very efficient aid w^ithout involving the expendi- 
ture of money by the Commission or any immediate call 
upon the State Treasury for funds. 

Mr. Jaccaci heartily endorsed the suggestion for a com- 
mittee on this subject. He believed that the Commission 
had a unique opportunity to lend its influence toward the 
crystallization of this sentiment which was too strong to 
be ignored. In some respects, the subject was more im- 
portant than the Inwood Hill Park, for it involved miles 
of the most beautiful scenery of the river. If the Com- 
mission could do something effective in this direction, it 
would be to its lasting credit. The Commission has already 
approved of the general idea, he said, but he thought that 
it should do more than give a mere passive approval ; it 
should do something assertive. 

The President expressed the fear that if the Commission 
took the initiative the other laborers in the cause would 
transfer their burdens to the Commission's shoulders ; and 
he thought that the Commission already had its hands full. 
He would prefer to have some other organization go to 
the front and have the Commission back it up. 

Dr. Kunz advocated the appointment of a committee on 
the subject. He intimated that information would become 
public in the near future which would show how import- 
ant the matter was regarded by certain influential citizens. 

After some further discussion, it was voted that the 
President be authorized in his discretion to appoint a 
committee to represent this Commission in promoting the 
movement for the preservation of the scenery of the 
Hudson River. 

The meeting then adjourned until Wednesday, October 

14, 1908, at 3 P. M. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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'Minutes of October 14 and October 28, 1908 



572 



ii^mteB 0f tlif (EnmmtBatnn. 



Abraham Abraham. 
Eduaid D. Adams 
Herbert Adams. 
/ohn G. Agar. 
R. B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 
Alphonse H. Alker. 
B. Altman. 
Louis Annin Ames. 
Hon. John E. Andrus. 
Hon. James K. Apgar. 
Chas. H. Armatagc. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atter- 

bury. 
Geo. Wm. Ballon. 
Theodore M. Banta. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett. 
Geo. C. Batcheller. 
Constructor William J. 

Ba.xter, U. S. N. 
Dr. James C. Bayles. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 
August Belmont. 
Tunis G. Bergen. 
Hon. William Berri. 
Hoa. John Bigelow. 
Hon. prank S. Black. 
E. W. Blooniingdale. 
George C. Boldt. 
Reginald Pelham Bolton. 
Hon. David A. Boody. 
Hon. A. J. Boulton. 
Hon. Thos. W. Bradley. 
Herbert L. Bridfjman. 
George V. Broivcr. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
Henrv K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 
Sir Caspar P. Clarke. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Rear Adm. J. B. Cogh- 

Ian. 
Fredk. J. Collier 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Fred'k R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis 
Rohf. Fulton Cutting. 
Frederick B. Dalzell. 
//<?«. A'n^'f. ir. ih- Forest. 



Hon. Charles He Kav. 

James de la Montayne. 

E. S. A. deLima. 

Hon. C. M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

Gtorge G. Dell'itt. 

Hon. William l>raper. 

Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Fames. 

George Ehret. 

Hon. .'^mith Ely. 

Dr. Thos. .\. Emmet. 

Arthur English. 

Most Rev. John M. 
Farley. 

Hon. J . Stoat Fassett. 

Karr Ferree. 

Morris P. Ferris. 

Stuy.'csant Fish. 

Theodore Fitch. , 

Wi-nchester Fitch. 

Hon. J.imes I Fitzgerald. 

Fredk. S. Flower. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Chas. .S". Francis. 

Henry C. Frick. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garret- 
son. 

Hon. Theo. P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Rear Adm. C. F. Good- 
rich. 

Dr. E. R. L. Gould. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj.-Gcn. F. D. Grant. 

Capt. R. H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

.Ahner .S. Haight. 

Edzv. Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

Geo. A. Hearn. 

Tames A. Hearn. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

Hon. Ifarren Hi^^lev. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirsch- 
berg. 

Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 

Tames P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 
William Homan. 

Hon. Henry E. How- 
land. 

Colgate Hoyt. 
Dr. LeRoy Hubbard. 
Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henrv Hudson. 
Walter G. Hudson. 
Archer M. Huntington. 
T. O. Huntting. 



.-/ II gust F. J ace act. 

Lot. William Jay. 

Jacob Katz. 

Hugh Kelly. 

Hon. John H. Ketcham. 

Gi-n. Horatio C. A'ni^. 

Albert E. ICleinert. 
Dr. George F. Kunz. 

Jolin LaParge. 

Charles R. Lamb. 

Frederick S. Lamb. 

Homer Lee. 

Charles W. Lefler. 

Julius Lehrenkranss. 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 

Clarence E. Leonard. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow. 

Hon. Gustav LindenthaL 

Herman Livingston. 

Comdr. Chas. H. Loring. 

Hon. P. C. Lounsbury. 

Hon. Seih Low. 

R. Fulton Ludlow. 

Hun. .Arthur Mac.Arthur. 

William A. ATarble. 

George E. Matthews. 

Hon. Wm. McCirroll. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook. 

Col. John J. McCook. 

Itonald McDonald. 
William J. McKay. 

Hon. St. Clair McKel- 
way. 

Rear- Ad. Geo. W. Mel- 
ville. 

Hon. John G. Milburn. 

Con,. Jacob IT. Miller. 

Hon. Warner Miller. 

Frank D. Millet. 

Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills. 

Ogden Mills. 

J. Pierpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham Morris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Wm. C. Muschenheim. 

Nathan Newman. 

C. H. Xiehaus. 

Ludwig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Chas. R. Norman. 

H»n. .^for^atr /. O'Brien. 

W. R. 6'Donovan. 

Eben E. Olcott. 

Wm. Church Osborn. 

Prof. Henrv F. Osborn. 

Percy B. O'.Sullivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel .\. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel PI. Parsons. 

Comdr. R. E. Peary. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Howland Pell. 



(Names ni Trus'.ees in /t,il,'cs.'\ 



573 



Hon. Geo. \V. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugs- 
ley. 

Louis C. Raegcner. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Henry W. Sackctt. 

Col. Wm. Cary Sanger. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 

Chas. A. Schermerhorn. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren 

Jacob H. SchiflF. 

Prest. Jacob G. Schur- 
man. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Isaac N. Seh'c^iiran. 

Louis Seligsburg. 

Hon. Joseph H. Senner. 

Hon. Fred'k. /r. Seivard 

Hon. Wm. F. Sheehan. 



Hon. Edward ^L Shepard 
Hon. Theo. H. Silkman. 
J. Edward Simmins. 
John W. Simpson. 
John J. Sinclair. 
E. V. Skinner. 
Prof. John C. Smock. 
William .Sohmer. 
Nelson S. .Spencer. 
James Speyer. 
Hon. John H. Starin. 
Isaac Stern. 
Hon. Louis Stern. 
Francis Lynde Stetson. 
Louis Stewart. 
James Stillman. 
Henry L. Stoddard. 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 
George R. Sutherland. 
Hon. Theodore Sutro. 
Stevenson Taylor. 
Henry R. Towne. 
Dr. Irving Townsend. 
Spencer Trask. 
C. Y. Turner. 
Albert Ulmann. 
Lt.-Coin. Aaron Vander- 
bilt. 

Vanderbilt. 
Vanderbilt. 
Henry Van 



Alfred G. 

Cornelius 

Rev. Dr. 

Dyke. 



[Names of Trustees in italics ] 



Warner Van Norden. 
Wm. B. Van Rensselaer. 
John R. Van Wormer. 
J. Leonard Varick. 
Wm. G. Ver Planck. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 
Col. John W. Vrooman. 
Hon. Chas. G. F. Wahle. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 
Hon. W. L. Ward. 
Edward Wells. Jr. 
Charles W. Wetmore. 
Edmund Wetmore. 
Henry W. Wetmore. 
Hon. .Andrew D. White. 
J. Du Pratt White. 
Fred C. Whitney. 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 
Charles R. Wilson. 
Edward C. Wilson. 
George Wilson. 
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 
Hon. John S. Wise. 
Charles R. Wolffram. 
Hon. Joseph S. Wood. 
Stewart L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. Wood- 
ruff. 
W. E. Woolley. 
James A. Wright. 
Hon. Richard Young. 



MAYORS Of cities* 

Amstl^dam' ■::;::::: ^r '• f^'^i^'f/ ,?• 9°"'- 

Auburn Z"" J%^°^^^- ^<^^(y 

Binghamton '.V. )^°"- ^- ,^"f.»«* Koemg. 

Buffalo ^""^ ^i '^^- Hr'v^- 

Cohoes Z"""- {?'"^^ ^; ^'^'""■ 

Corning .... ^""^ ,/f- D. Hanson. 

Cortland . . „ "• ^^""'"^^ --^ JJcA'a»,ara. 

Dunkirk ■.■.■;. ^/^2- ^r""" ^ .^'"-\''"- 

Fulton Hon. IMmel Sheehan. 

Geneva .W ^f"' ^f^f'"'^ Q'^^'k. 

Glens Falls V. hT.' A ;'" u^ n^V'' 

Gloversville ^^ S v • f" f^i: 

Hudson Hon. R,c hard M.Frangen. 

Xthaca non. Henrv Hudson. 

TnmeQtr,wV Hon.Jared T. Newjiian. 

Tohn.town ^^''"- ■5'«"'«^' A. Carlson. 

Kingston ^T„., ,,- ,. „ „ 

Little Falls ^Tn \ 1^"'^ P- Crane. 

T nrknnrt """■ ^"i • -D Santry. 

MidXTown- :::::::::: ^::;- ^''f 77 "■ ^'"■^•'•- 

AT^„^t \T non. Kobert La7urence. 

Newh, r^h " ""''■ ^l'''^''^>" D. Howe. 

New Rocheli; '^'"*- •^^«^''»"'" McClung. 

New York ^t^"- 9~'°^^' ^- R'^y^^ond. 

Niagara Fafi; i^""- ^^°''S^ ^- McClellan. 

T^^%XJ% ^ ^"S . //^,^_ ^ nthony C ! ^ou .-'lass 

i\orth Tonawanda /;/^„ i.-,.„ j^.'ot,iass. 

Ogdensburg ^//"„ ^ T If ' 

Ofpor. Hon. John Hannon. 

Oneida-;:::: //-.".//.. i/.«^.wv/.. 

§a...-;;;.::-;;;;.v.v--;;.-.-;.v.-; Sj <if x.^.-f- 

S:ias" ;;;;;;/;/;.■■•,■••.•■■•• S; ,/i"AS^&.. 

•Ex-officio, Members and Trustees. 



574 

Rochester Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 

Kome . . Hon Albert Kessinger. 

Schenectady Ho,,. Horace S. I «« / -oas/. 

Syracuse Ho>i. A/an C. Fohes 

Tonawanda Hon. II illiam FolUttc 

Troy Hon. Elias P. Mann. 

JJtica Hcui. Thomcxs IV/u-cUr. 

Watertown Hon. Francis M. Hugo. 

Watervhet Hon. Daniel P. Quinn. 

Yonkers Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

IRESIUENTS OF MLLAGEst 

Athens Hon. Fred W. Titus. 

Castleton Hon. John T. Flynn 

Catskill Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Cold Spring Hon. Vincent A Murray. 

Corinth Hon. Clifford Bush 

Cornwall on-Hudson Hon. J. H. Clarkson 

Coxsackie Hon. F. Herbert Sutherland 

Croton-on-Hudson Hon. Clarence E. Powell. 

Dobbs Ferry Hon. Lvman C. French. 

Fishkill Hon. Tames H. Doyle. 

Fishkill Landing Hon. Irving T. Justus. 

Fort Edward Hon. James F. FitzGerald. 

Green Island Hon. Robert B. Waters. 

Hastings-on-IIudson Hon. F. G. Zinsser. 

Haverstraw Hon. Thomas Lvnch. 

Irvington Hon. M. S. Belt'zhuover. 

Matteawan Hon. Roswell S. Judson. 

Mechanicville Hon. C. E. Vredenbui g. 

North Tarrytown Hon. John VVirth. 

Nyack Hon. Horace W. Boyd. 

Ossining Hon. Joel D. Madden. 

Peekskill Hon. Isaac H. Smith. 

Piermont Hon. W. H. Myers. 

Red Hook Hon. L. L. Stillman. 

Rhinebeck Hon, A. F. Quick 

Sandy Hill Hon. C. W. Higley. 

Saugerties Hon. A. Rowe. 

Schuylerville Hon. D. A. Bullard. 

South Glens Falls Hon. Dennis Moynihan. 

South Nyack Hon. Charles McElroy. 

Stillwater Hon. Edward J. Wood. 

Tarrytown Hon. John Gross. 

Tivoli Hon. James L. Freeborn. 

Upper Nyack Hon. Arthur C. Tucker. 

Victory Mills Hon. John McLindon. 

Wappingers Falls Hon. John L. Hughes. 

Waterford Hon. Anthony J. Weaver. 

West Haverstraw Hon. E. L. Wemple. 

fEx-officio, Members of the Commission. 



FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT COUNCILLORS 

Dr. A. Bredius The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Hon. D. Iludig Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr. W. Martin The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W Moes Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 



575 



President 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting President. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

U. S. N., Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Andrew D. White. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Treasurer 

i\Ir. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Aeronautics Committee 

Hon. Wm. Berri, Chairman, 526 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
Hon. James M. Beck. 

Art and Historical E,xhibits Committee 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 23 Wall Street, New York. 
Sub-Committee ( Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Chairman, 
on •\ Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Art Exhibits. ( Mr. Edward Robinson. 
Sub-Committee ( Dr. George F. Kunz, Chairman. 
on Historical < Mr. S. V. Hoffrnan, 

Exhibits. ( Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

Auditing Committee 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarrolI. 

Banquet Committee 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad Street, New York. 
Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. 



576 



Carnival Parade Committee 



Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 

Mr. B. Altman, Hon 

Mr. August Belmont, Mr. 

Hon. William Berri, Mr. 

Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. 

Hon. David A. Boody, Mr. 

Hon. George C. Clausen, Hon 

Mr. George Ehret, Mr. 

Mr. Frank S. Gardner, Mr. 

Mr. George A. Hearn, Mr. 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. 

Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 



William Street, New York. 
. Lewis Nixon, 
Eben E. Olcott. 
William Church Osborn, 
Bayard L. Peck, 
Howland Pell, 
. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Louis C. Raegener, 
Jacob H. Schiff, 
William Sohmer, 
James Speyer, 
. Louis Stern, 
J. Leonard Varick, 
Edmund Wetmore. 



Executive Committee 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York, 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 



Hon. James M. Beck, 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 

Hon. William Berri, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan,U.S.N., 

Mr. William J. Curtis, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Col. William Jay, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, 

Mr. John La Farge, 

Hon. Seth Low, 

Hon. William McCarroll, 

Comdt. Jacob W. Miller, 

Mr. Frank D. Millet, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 



Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Hon. George W. Perkins, 
Hon. .N. Taylor PhiUips, 
Gen. Horace Porter, 
Mr. L<ouis C. Raegener, 
Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
]\Ir. J. Edward Simmons, 
Hon. John H. Starin, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Mr. Spencer Trask, 
Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Hon. Andrew D. White, " 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 



General Commemorative Exercises Committee 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D.. Chairman, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Hon. David A. Boody, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Col. Wm. Cary Sanger, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hudson River Scenery Committee 

Hon. Alton B. Parker, Chairman, 32 Liberty Street, New York. 
Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. Gen. Charles F. Roe, 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee. 



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577 

Invitations Committee 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, . Hon. Andrew D. White, 

The Secretary, c.v-oMcio. 

In'woocl ParK Committee 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman, S- Wilham St., New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett. 

Law and Legislation Committee 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman. 15 Broad St., New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Col. William Jay, 

Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, The President, ex-oMcio. 

Memorials Committee 

Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street, New York. 
Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Wm. R. Willcox. 

Military Parade Committee 

Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., Chairman, 
Governor's Island, New York. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. Chas. F. Roe. 

Naval Parade Committee 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan. U. S. N., Chairman, 
29 Park Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Const'r Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob W. Miller, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Chas. R. Norman, 

Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Mr. Louis T. Romaine, 

Mr. William J. McKay. Hon. John H. Starin, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 
U. S. N., 

Nominations Committee 

Mr. Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York. 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Col. John W. Vrooman, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-oiHcio. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman, 157 W. 79th St., New York. 
Mr. R. P. Bolton. Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Mr. Edward DeWitt, Mr. Albert Ulmann, 

Mr. Edmund Wetmore. 



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Plan and Scope Cornrnittee 



Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Hon. William Berri, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan,U.S.N., 
Mr. Robert W. De Forest, 
Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, U.S.A., 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Hon. Seth Low, 
Hon. Wm. McCarroll, 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 



Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
]\Ir. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, 
The President, ex-ofUcio. 



Reception Committee 



Hon. Seth Low% Chairman, 30 
Col. John Jacob Astor, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Hon. Frank S. Black, 
Hon. A. J. Boulton, 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
Hon. Joseph- H. Choate, 
Mr. John Claflin, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 
Rear Adm. J. B. Coghlan.U.S.N., 
Most Rev. John M. Farley. 
Maj.-Gen. Fred'k D. Grant, 

U. S. A., 
Mr. E. H. Hall, 
Hon. David B. Hill, 
Hon. Henry E. Howland, 
Col. William Jay, 
Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 
Col. John J. McCook, 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 
Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 

U. S.N., 
Hon. John G. Milburn, 



East 64th Street, New York. 

Mr. Ogden Mills, 

Mr. J. P. Morgan, 

Mr. Fordham Morris, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Hon. Alton B. Parker, 

Gen. Horace Porter, 

Mr. Thos. R. Proctor, 

Mr. Herman Ridder, 

Mr. Wm. Rockefeller, 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Pres. J. G. Schurman, 

Mr. L N. Seligman, 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Hon. William R. Willcox, 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 



VerplancK's Point ParK Committee 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

"Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William St., New York. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Spencer Trask, 

Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, The President, ex-ofUcio. 

Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 



579 
Minutes of 

Trustees' Meetin^r 

October 14, 1908. 

The twenty-eighth meeting of the Trustees of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held pursuant to 
adjournment at the headquarters of the Commission in the 
Tribune Building, at No. 154 Nassau street, New York 
City, Wednesday, October 14, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present : The President, Stewart L. Woodford, presid- 
ing; and Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Sir 
Caspar Purdon Clarke, Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, 
U. S. N., Hon Walter B. Crane (by Mr. A. W. Van Gaas- 
Beek), Mr. Theodore Fitch, Hon. Charles H. Gaus, Mr. 
Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. 
Henry Hudson, Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Benjamin 
McClung, Mr. Wm. J. McKay, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Mr. Louis C. Raegener, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Col. Her- 
bert L. Satterlee, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Francis 
Lynde Stetson, and Gen. James Grant Wilson, of the Board 
of Trustees. Also Naval Constructor William J. Baxter, 
U. S. N., Mr. Frederick J. Collier, and Hon. Charles A. 
Elliott, members of the Commission. Also Mr. Cornelius 
F. Burns, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Troy, 
and ]\Ir. William Wortman, City Clerk of Hudson. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Dr. 
George F. Kunz, Commander Jacob W. Miller, Mr. Herman 
Ridder, President Jacob Gould Schurman and Mr. James 
Speyer, and they were excused. 



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Minutes Corrected and Approved. 
The minutes of the last meethig, having been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved with the following 
corrections: On page 551, in the 12th line from the top, 
insert the word " not " after the word " did," so that the 
sentence will read, " Mr. Sackett said he did not rise to 
oppose Mr. Stetson's motion." On page 552, in the 7th 
line from the bottom, insert the name of Mr. Boldt after 
Mr. Berri's name. On page 554 in the 6th line from the 
bottom, change the middle initial of Mr. John Sinclair 
from C. to J. 

Executive Committee Authorized to Engage Manager of 
Pageant, etc. 

The special order of the day — the report of the special 
committee on Carnival Parade, (pp. 547-549) — was tirst 
taken up. 

In the absence of Mr. Ridder, Mr. Sackett, the other 
member of that committee, quoted the recommendations of 
the report to the effect that the Executive Committee be 
empowered to engage, upon the recommendation of the 
President, a General Manager of the entire Celebration, a 
Manager of the Historical Pageantry features of the Cele- 
bration and a Manager of the Carnival Parade, or any one 
or two of such managers, at such rate of compensation and 
upon such conditions as should be fixed by the Executive 
Committee. He also called attention to the desirability of 
engaging some person who should make it his business to 
give proper publicity to the preparations of the Commission 
for the celebration next year. He read an extract from a 
newspaper editorial, urging the Commission to greater ex- 
pedition in its arrangements, which, while it contained a 
foundation of truth, disclosed a lack of information about 
the progress which had already been made. He believed 
that the appointment of a qualified person to give the 



October 14, 1908 581 

public full information concerning the movements of the 
Commission would do much to correct such misapprehen- 
sions and also greatly facilitate the work of the Commis- 
sion. In behalf of his committee, therefore, he asked per- 
mission to make the additional recommendation that the 
Executive Committee be authorized, upon recommendation 
of the President, to engage such other persons as may be 
deemed necessary to assist in the preparations for the Cele- 
bration. 

The President : " The Special Committee on Carnival 
Parade asks permission to amend its report by inserting 
the further recommendation that the Executive Committee 
be authorized, upon recommendation of the President, to 
engage such other persons, in addition to those mentioned 
in the report, as may be deemed necessary to assist the 
Commission in its preparations for the celebration. Is 
there any objection? There being none, the report is so 
amended, and as amended, is now before you for action." 

Mr. Seward said he entirely approved of the measures 
proposed. The only suggestion that occurred to himi was 
that we had now reached the point when we were about to 
begin to spend, or contract to spend, the public money, and 
it might be wise to put some restriction on ourselves. He 
thought it might be well to know just what these engage- 
ments would cost before authorizing them. 

Mr. Sackett said that some figures had already been ob- 
tained. If Mr. Stoddard were employed in connection 
with the pageantry, he had stated that the Commission 
would be obligated to him for an amount not exceeding 
$5,000, which sum would include his office expenses. The 
only other expense would be that of bringine- on from New 
Orleans a special designing artist for two or three months 
at an expense not exceeding $900. His expenses would, 
therefore, all come within $6,000. Mr. Stoddard had 
stated since the last meeting^ that he would be willing to 



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make an arrang-ement with the commission for three 
months at a proportionate rate of the $5,000 sum, named, 
phis the $900 for the artist, and that the Commission could 
then decide whether it wanted him to go on with the work.. 
This, it should be understood, however, did not include the 
expense of such a man as Mr. Parry for General Manager. 

Mr. Raegener spoke in terms of hig'h approval of the 
recent celebration of Founders" Week in Philadelphia. He 
said that while the pag'eant of the Red Men on Thursday 
evening was very monotonous and uninteresting, partly for 
lack of proper illumination, the Historical Pageant on Fri- 
day afternoon was very fine ; and he described the groups 
and costumes in some detail. The lighting of the streets 
was superb and he doubted if New York could equal it. 
The illumination of the City Hall was particularly beauti- 
ful. The management of the great array of viewing 
stands was also very good and there were no accidents. 

It being stated that Mr. Stoddard, the Captain of the 
New Orleans Mardi Gras carnival, who was in an adjacent 
room, had attended the Philadelphia celebration, he was in- 
vited to enter the meeting and give his impressions of the 
affair. 

Mr. Stoddard said that he regarded the Philadelphia 
celebration very creditable for a first attempt. Pageantry 
was new in this part of the country and managers had 
much to learn about it. The Philadelphia night pageants 
were not properly lighted, which detracted a great deal 
from their eft'ectiveness. In New Orleans, they had tried 
all kinds of lighting, including electricitv, and had settled 
down to gasolene lamps carried by men as described by him 
to the Executive Committee. This was an effective and 
economical method. In New Orleans they hired men at a 
dollar each to carry the reflector lamps and never had less 
than 400 or 500 lamps. The floats in Philadelphia were 
constructed entirely of wood, cloth and trees, while in New 



October 14, 1908 583 

Orleans they use papier luache work almost exclusively, 
producing very artistic effects. The New Orleans floats 
were also on a much larger scale than those in Philadel- 
phia. For the money spent, he believed that New Orleans 
accomplished more than Philadelphia. He had been in- 
formed that the Red Men in Philadelphia spent in the 
neighborhood of $300,000. For much less than that he 
could g;ive a better show in New York. In New Orleans 
they never spent more than $100,000 a year on pageantry. 
His artist had been in the work over 30 years. A very 
nice item of revenue was made in New Orleans by build- 
ing the floats so that they could be used elsewhere. The 
New York floats could readily be built so that the display 
could be repeated in Brooklyn or elsewhere. He said he 
did not believe in too long parades, as the people, who, 
perhaps, had been standing an hour or two waiting for the 
procession, grew tired when they stood 3 or 4 hours more 
looking at it. 

Mr. Sackett said it was obvious that what the Commis- 
sion needed, and needed at once, was to get a thorough ex- 
pert who would instruct it what to do as well as help it to 
carry out its plans. It needed a general manager immedi- 
ately. 

Mr. Seward inquired what was meant by a general 
manager. 

Mr. Sackett explained that by that term was meant a 
person, who, under the direction of the officers of the Com- 
mission, should devote himself entirely to the mapping out 
and execution of the details of the general plan adopted. 

Mr. SteLson said that what the Commission needed most 
was to wake up and get to work. If it did not, it was 
liable to be made a laughingstock. He agreed entirely 
with Col. Sackett's statement of the need of greater activity. 
The Commission had been planning for a year and a half. 
Now it should get to work. But it needed money. It 



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needed $500,000. If the State would not give it, then it 
must be raised by subscription. First, the Commission 
should raise the money, and then cut its garment according 
to the cloth. Quebec had paid yir. Lascelles $50,000 and 
this Commission would have to pay for genius. He was 
not getting discouraged, he said ; but everybody should 
now wake up. Meet again to-morrow if necessary, or the 
next day. He hoped that having in view the necessities of 
the situation, all would go to their members of the legis- 
lature and make their lives uncomfortable until they had 
provided the means for a celebration creditable to the 
city and the State. He hoped the authority asked for by 
the report under discussion would be given. He, there- 
fore nioved that the report be received and the recom- 
mendations be adopted. 

Mr. Raegener said he would like to know more about 
what it would cost, but if it were necessary to spend 
$10,000, or $20,000 or $30,000. it ought to be spent. 

Mr. Phillips asked if any idea had been given as to how 
much the pageantry and other features of the programme 
would cost. He was used to handling money and getting 
it, and he thought the Commission ought to know what it 
was going to do^. It was well enough to talk about worry- 
ing your legislators — he had been one himself and did not 
think that they were easily worried : — what was necessary 
was to get at the man higher up. If the Governor were 
favorable, the legislators would be all right. If the Com- 
mission tried to raise money by subscription it would have 
great trouble. People who formerly gave $100 were now 
giving $50; and those who formerly gave $5 now gave $2. 

Mr. Stetson referred Mr. Phillips to page 360 of the 
minutes upon which would be found a general estimate of 
expenses, amounting to $255,000. The Commission had 
asked for $300,000 and the Governor had been heartily in 
favor of it; but Senator Armstrong, Chairman of the 



October 14, 1908 585 

Finance Committee of the Senate, had stood in the way of 
giving that sum this year. Philadelphia had raised $300,- 
000 ; Quebec had raised $300,000 ; and New York should 
do the same. 

The President said that the Commission had considered 
the subject of the celebration for a year and a half, and it 
was his opinion that with what the Commission hoped to 
get from New York City, the Celebration would cost 
$500,000. " We shall have to spend half a million dol- 
lars," he said, " to keep our birthday south of Newburgh. 
Gov. Hughes wanted the Legislature to appropriate $300,- 
000 at the last session, but it appropriated only $150,000, 
and we shall have to secure $350,000. The New York city 
government should contribute $150,000, and we ought to 
receive $200,000 from merchants, banks and other sources. 
The men who have made their money here ought to do 
their share. The State probably will not give any more 
than $300,000 for the celebration below Newburgh. If it 
does give more, it will be devoted to the celebration north 
of Newburgh. Our friends north of that point want $150,- 
000 and ought to have it." 

Mr. Beck said with reference to the Philadelphia celebra- 
tion that the city fathers gave $100,000, and $65,000 was 
raised by subscription. The expenses, however, were over 
$300,000, and the city would make good the deficit. In 
times past, whenever there had been such celebrations in 
Philadelphia, the greatest available source of funds out- 
side of the public authorities was the railroads. Last week, 
the railroad receipts increased $100,000, and doubtless a 
large part of the $65,000 subscriptions came from the rail- 
roads. He recalled that when the Commission's commit- 
tee went to Mayor McClellan, the latter gave them to 
understand that we could not look to the city for any 
financial aid. If we are to raise $500,000, Mr. Beck said, 
we should begin now, and should look to the railroad com- 
panies as a liberal source of support. 



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586 Minutes of Trustees 

The President called attention to the fact that so far as 
the street car lines of New York City were concerned, the 
whole system, except two arteries, was in the hands of re- 
ceivers and could not give a cent if it wanted to. 

Mr. Beck said that aside from the street car lines, the 
great transportation lines leading to the city were still 
available. With respect to popular subscriptions', he 
agreed with Mr. Phillips as to the difficulty of securing 
them, and cited as an illustration an incident of the popular 
subscription which finally took the form of the gift of a 
house to Admiral Dewey. The subscriptions came in 
slowly, and the Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the 
Treasury, said he would send a circular to every national 
bank in the country asking for $100 from each. He ex- 
pected the money to roll in and the required sum to be 
raised with great ease. As a matter of fact, they did not 
receive enough from this source to pay for the printing and 
postage. Mr. Beck was of the opinion that the merchants 
of the town were probably not in favor of large expendi- 
tures for spectacular purposes; but if they zvcrc ap- 
proached, we should concurrently look to the transportation 
companies. 

Mr. Phillips said that while campaign exhibitions were 
being held in our streets aiming to show how city funds 
were wasted, the Board of Estimate would be reluctant to 
make appropriations for the celebration. For the benefit of 
those who might approach the city authorities, however, he 
would say that if the appropriation were not included in the 
regular budget, it might be raised by revenue bonds on the 
passage of a resolution by the Board of Estimate. 

The President : " The question is on Mr. Stetson's 
motion that the report of the special committee on carnival 
and pageantry as amended be approved and the recom- 
mendations adopted. Are you ready for the question?" 

There being no further discussion, the motion was unani- 
mously carried. 



October 14, 1908 587 

Report of the Treasurer. 

The regular order of business was then taken up. 

The Treasurer's report stated that no disbursements had 
been made since the last report and that the balance in the 
treasury remained the same as on September 23, namely, 

$5.532.35- 

Received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following- bills were approved for payment, subject 
to approval by the Auditing Committee : 

Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing $2 70 

E. H. Hall, Salary for October 250 00 



$252 70 

Appointed by the Mayor. 

The Secretary read a letter from the secretary of Mayor 
IMcClellan, dated October i, 1908, appointing Messrs. E. D. 
Adams, F. B. Dalzell, ^I. P. Ferris, John J. Sinclair and 
AVilliam G. Ver Planck as members of the Commission 
upon the recommendation of the Trustees. 

The letter was ordered on file and the Secretary in- 
structed to place the names on the roll of the Commission. 

Mr. Ridder Appointed Acting President. 

The Secretary read a letter from the President of the 
Commission dated October 12, stating that he expected to 
sail for Europe on Wednesday, November 4, and should 
probably be absent from New York during the winter. In 
conformity with the by-laws, he therefore designated 
Vice-President Herman Ridder to act as President during 
his absence. 



588 Minutes of Trustees 

Letter from Hon. Alton B. Parker Concerniii!^ Hudson 
River Seenery. 

The Secretary read the following; letter from the Hon. 
Alton B. Parker, late Chief Justice of the Court of Ap- 
peals : 

New York, September 30, 190S. 

General Stewart L. Woodford, President, Hudson-Fulton 
Commission, 18 Wall Street, New York City. 

My dear General. — It has been suggested to me that 
the Ter-Centennial Celebration in 1909 should not pass 
without some decided action taken by our Commission to 
protect the scenery of the Hudson River from the ravages 
which are rapidly destroying many of its most attractive 
and prominent features. That initiative taken by the Com- 
mission, with the stimulation that would be given to the 
measure by the coming celebration, would result in accom- 
plishing a great public benefit, and in providing a memorial 
that would be worthy of our state and lead to general ap- 
proval throughout the country. 

I respectfully submit the matter for your consideration. 
Very sincerely yours, 

Alton B. Parker. 

The letter was referred to the Committee on Hudson 
River Scenery authorized at the last meeting of the Trus- 
tees, the members of which the President said he would 
appoint before the next meeting. 

House Boots on the Hudson. 

A letter from Mr. George F. Neidlinger, dated October 
I, 1908, was read, suggesting that the gathering of a large 
number of house-boats along the shores of the Hudson 
river during the celebration next year, after the fashion of 
the house-boats on the Thames, would afiford an excellent 
view of the river parade, while they, in their turn, by their 
grouping in colonies and by their decorations, would 
present a beautiful and enlivening picture. 

Ordered on file, with reference in the mimUes. 



October 14, 1908 589 

Publicity on Merchants' Envelopes. 

A letter from ]Mr. Frederick R. Cruikshank, dated Octo- 
ber 8, was read, suggesting that in addition to the proposed 
memorial coinage and postage stamps, attention might ex- 
tensively be called to the celebration by following the cus- 
tom, practiced by other cities, of having the title and 
dates of the anniversary printed on the envelopes used by 
merchants in their correspondence. 

Ordered on file, with reference in the minutes. 

Art Exhibit and Medal. 

In the absence of Mr. De Forest and Dr. Kunz, chair- 
men of the two sub-committees on Art and Historical Ex- 
hibits, the Assistant Secretary stated for Dr. Kunz that the 
latter and Mr. De Forest had been in conference and that 
he could report encouraging progress concerning the Art 
exhibit. 

In regard to the medal, Dr. Kunz requested that it be 
stated that Mr. Adams had said that there would be no 
trouble, so far as the American Numismatic Society was 
concerned, in meeting the suggestions of Mr. Stetson about 
restricting the issue of the miedal. 

In this connection, the following letters from Mr. Adams 
are given : 

New York, September 30, 1908. 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 401 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 

Dear Dr. Kunz. — We are quite willing to agree to any 
reasonable restriction, as to the striking of gold medals, 
that the Commission miay desire, as we contemplated the 
striking of only two gold medals, and these only if wished 
by the President of the Numismatic Society and a member 
of the Society who has had the privilege of taking in gold 
a copy of each of the medals issued by the Society since it 
established its Committee on the Publication of Medals. 

Very truly yours, 

Edward D. Adams. 



590 Minutes of Trustees 

New York, September 30, 1908. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett, Secretary, Hudson-Fviltoii Celebra- 
tion Conrmission, Tribune Building, New York City. 

Dear Sir. — Your letter of September 29th respecting the 
Hudson-Fulton medal communication, that I had the 
pleasure of presenting to you under date of September 
1 8th, has been received and I thank you for the informa- 
tion therein contained. 

Dr. Kunz has conferred with me regarding the striking 
of gold medals, and I have answered him to-day. 

Since writing you. it has occurred to me that the Numis- 
matic Society, as the future custodian of the dies, nlight 
undertake to strike from time to time hereafter, as a con- 
tinuing recognition of the activities of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission, as they might be desired, medals 
bearing on the obverse either the Hudson or the Fulton 
design, while the reverse might bear an appropriate in- 
scription, so that such medals might be used as an award, 
rmder conditions to be detcrniined by the School Board of 
the City of New York, for superiority in historical com- 
positions by the scholars in the High Schools or in the 
College of the City of New York. 

I have already suggested such use of the Hudson design 
for the schools of New Jersey, but as yet no action has 
been taken, as the reference has not yet reached the repre- 
sentatives of the Educational Boards of the State of New 
Jersey. 

Respectfully yours, 

Edward D. Adams, 

Chairman, 

Committee on the Publication of ^^ledals 
of the American Numismatic Society. 

Imvood HI!! Park. 
In the absence of Mr. John E. Parsons, chairman of the 
Inwood Hill Park committee, the Secretary stated that he 
had received a letter from \lr. Parsons, dated September 
30, indicating that he was still working on the problem, 
and that those who were holding their property at im- 



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October 14, 1908 591 

practically high figures were showing a disposition to come 
down. The Secretary said he believed that a favorable 
plan could eventually be worked out. 

Building of the Half Moon. 

Mr. Bergen said that during the past summer he had 
been in The Netherlands and had personally deli\'^red the 
certificates of appointment to the five Foreign Correspond- 
ent Councillors. The recipients, he said, received the cer- 
tificates with great appreciation. He had seen many mem- 
bers of the Half Moon committee and they had assured 
him that the Half Moon would be built from solid oak, 
from keel upward, according to the original design. They 
propose to furnish the vessel according to the period of 
Henry Hudson, and to man it with a crew in costumes of 
that period. He said that when he was asked what we 
would do with it after the celebration, he answered that we 
would find a place for it on some lake or in some park 
where it would remain as a permanent memento of the 
donors and of the celebration. Mr. Bergen declared that 
if nothing else were done by the Commission, the discovery 
of the Hudson would be duly celebrated when the Half 
Moon arrived and was greeted by the navy and the army. 
He said that personally he was not very keen about his- 
torical floats unless they were well done. If there were 
three or four pageants well executed in original costumes 
they would be an honor to the occasion. Otherwise, with 
our college, school and official literary exercises, and the 
Half Moon, we would have a celebration of which to be 
proud. 

In this connection, he said that there were certain other 
distinguished men in the Netherlands who ought to be ap- 
pointed as Honorary Councillors, and he would report their 
names at the next meeting. 



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As chairman of the Committee on Memorials, he re- 
ported that he was in correspondence with the Postmaster- 
General and the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to 
commemorative postage stamps and coinage, and hoped 
soon to be able to report designs. 

Final Plan of Clermont 'Adopted. 

Admiral Coghlan, chairman of the Committee on Naval 
Parade, presented the tinal plan for the reconstruction of 
the fac-siipile of the Clermont, and stated that while he had 
not yet received the written commitment of the ]\Iaritime 
Association to build it, he had just received information by 
telephone that that Association would undertake it. He 
recommended that in recognition of this generous gift, a 
tablet bearing the names of the donors be placed in the 
Clermont, and after the celebration erected permanently in 
some other appropriate place. 

He said that the data upon which his committee based 
their conclusions concerning the design of the Clermont 
were not now in suitable shape for embodiment in the 
minutes, and asked leave to present them at a later date. 

The report was accepted and the plan adopted. 

In anticipation of the more detailed report concerning 
the plan of the Clermont, it may be stated here that it is 
the result of prolonged and critical historical research with 
the aid of the best naval constructive authorities as con- 
sultants. It is a curious fact that the Naval Parade Com- 
mittee has had greater difficulty in determining the appear- 
ance of the Clermont wdiich was built in 1807, than in de- 
termining the appearance of Henry Hudson's Half Moon 
which entered the river in 1609. There is no contem- 
porary picture or drawing to be found in Europe or 
America of either the Half Moon or the Clermont, but 
there are so many references to the masting, rigging and 
draught of the Half Moon in Juet's Journal of Hudson's 



October 14, 1908 593 

voyage, that with the aid of contemporary pictures of the 
harhor of iVmsterdam and its shipping, the Half Moon can 
be accurately reconstructed. The findings of the Com- 
mittee, with respect to the Half Moon, have been approved 
by the highest naval authorities in Holland and the ship is 
now being built by the people of Holland, to be presented 
to the Commission. But in making the fac-simile of the 
Clermont the Committee not only lacked contemporaneous 
pictures of the vessel, but authentic descriptions of its de- 
tails were also almost entirely lacking; and still further, 
the Clermont being a pioneer vessel, it was not one of a 
type and no aid could be drawn from! the appearance of 
other vessels of that period. The anomaly was thus pre- 
sented of a greater difficulty in reconstructing a vessel 100 
years old than in reconstructing a vessel 300 years old. 
The plan adopted by the Commission, being the product of 
the most critical and painstaking technical and historical 
research, is, therefore, of great interest not only to per- 
sons interested in marine matters but also to historians and 
the public generally. 

Admiral Coghlan inquired whether the Trustees thought 
it would be better to have a separate committee on the 
building of the Clermont, or to leave it to the Naval Parade 
Committee. 

Mr. Raegener moved that the building of the Clermont 
be left to the Naval Parade Committee, with power to ap- 
point its own sub-committee if it so wished. Carried. 

Mr. Raegener moved that the tablet be placed on the 
Clermont at tlie expense of the Commission. Carried. 

Official Landing Places Requested. 
Admiral Coghlan asked if the jurisdiction of his Com- 
mittee extended to the matter of providing landings for 
the visiting vessels, and the consensus of opinion seemed to 
be that it did. 



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The President stated that at Admiral Cog-hlan's request 
he had addressed the following letter to the Commissioner 
of Docks : 

New York, October 13, 1908. 

Hon. A. N. Spooner, Commissioner of Docks, Pier A, 
North River, City. 

Dear Sir. — In behalf of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commlission, appointed by the Governor of the State and 
the Mayor of the City of New York to arrange for the 
celebration next year of the 300th anniversary of the dis- 
covery of the Hudson River and the looth anniversary of 
the first successful application of steam to the navigation 
of that stream, I respectfully apply to you to provide and 
place at the disposal of this Commission suitable and ade- 
quate dock landing facilities on the North River at about 
the following named streets for the proper reception of the 
Guests of Honor from the Navies of the United States 
and Foreign Nations : 

West 44th, 60th, 80th, 96th, 129th, 144th and 157th 
streets. 

The Celebration will begin formally on Saturday, Sep- 
tember 25, 1909, and continue at least one week. The ex- 
ercises may be prolonged another week. As some of the 
ships may arrive considerably in advance of September 
25th, we would be pleased to have the landings placed at 
our disposal as early as the ist of September, 1909. 

We would also be gratified if you would have these 
landings and their vicinities, as far as your jurisdiction ex- 
tends, cleaned up and made as attractive as possible, so 
that the first impressions of our Guests of Honor upon 
landing in this city may be both agreeable to them and 
creditable to the city. 

Assuring you in advance of this Commission's great ap- 
preciation of your courteous cooperation, I remain, 
Very respectfully yours, 

Stewart L. Woodford, 

President. 



October 14, 1908 595 

Report on Official Literary Exercises. 

General Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Official 
Literary Exercises, reported that there had been no meet- 
ing of his Committee since the last meeting of the Trus- 
tees. He said he was waiting for the expected tender of 
the use of the Brooklyn Academy of Music to arrange for 
a meeting in addition to those proposed to be held in the 
Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall. 

The Secretary said that he would call Mr. Berri's atten- 
tion to the subject and that doubtless the offer of the 
Academy of Music would be forthcoming. 

Desire for Appropriation for Upper Hudson. 

Mayor Gaus of Albany, chairman of the committee 
which had been organized by representatives of the cities 
and villages of the Upper Hudson, spoke in behalf of the 
people of that section for an appropriation for an ade- 
quate celebration along the upper reaches of the river. 
"As has been stated," he. said, " all the money thus far ap- 
propriated by the Legislature has been for the celebration 
below Newburgh ; but we above Newburgh feel that we 
would like to participate, and we will have to go to the 
Legislature at the next session and get a special appro- 
priation. We, therefore, want the support of this Board 
of Trustees in getting it. The Hudson River is the Hud- 
son River of all the people and we all want to take part in 
the celebration. I represent the city 'of Albany, the oldest 
city in this State and older than the oldest city of many 
other states ; and we feel that we should be represented. 
We expect to put up some kind of permanent monument 
and not to spend all our money in fireworks. We sincerely 
ask the Trustees to help us get an appropriation and give 
us their kindly cooperation." 

Mr. Raegener was very much in favor of the suggestion. 
He thought it was the duty of the Trustees to go to the 
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The President said that there was an honorable under- 
standing between him and the representatives of the Upper 
Hudson \'alley that if the additional $150,000 were ob- 
tained from the Legislature, it should be spent at and above 
Newburgh; and he asked if that were not so. 

Mr. Stetson, who was of the committee wdiich had gone 
to Albany on this subject last spring, amplified the Presi- 
dent's statement by saying that the distinct understanding 
was that we should have $300,000 for use south of New- 
burgh and $150,000 more for use at and north of New- 
burgh. 

Mayor Gaus coincided with Mr. Stetson's statement. 

Mr. McKay of Newburgh suggested a conference be- 
tween the chairman of the Committee on Law and Legis- 
lation (Mr. Stetson), and the members of the up-state 
committee. He believed that if it could be shown that it 
was the wish of their constituents that the money be ap- 
propriated, the Legislature would give it. 

Mr. Stetson said he would be glad to meet the gentlemen 
of the up-state committee and settle on a bill to be intro- 
duced in the next Legislature. He did not give up hope 
for more money from that source. 

Mr. Burns of Troy said : " The reason why we did not 
get what we asked for in the last session was that the state 
felt poor. Our understanding was that you were to have 
your part and we to have ours. We will help you to get 
yours, and we want you to help us to get ours. H you do 
not intend to ask for any more for yourselves, then help 
us anyway. I do not see why we should not be able to get 
more, and I feel encouraged to believe we will be success- 
ful." 

Mr. Sackett asked if it were the desire of Mayor Gaus 
and his colleagues to have a special committee of the Trus- 
tees appointed on this subject. 

Mayor Hudson and Mayor Gaus replied in the negative. 



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After a brief discussion of the date of the next meeting, 
adjournment was taken to the next regular date provided 
by the by-laws, namely, Wednesday, October 28, at 3 p. m. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



599 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

October 28, 1908. 

The twenty-ninth meeting of the Trustees of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held at head- . 
quarters in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street, 
New York City, Wednesday, October 28, 1908, at 3 o'clock 
p. M. 

Roll Call. 

Present: President Stewart L. Woodford, presiding; 
and Hon. William Berri, Hon. A. J. Boulton, Mr. George 
V. Brower, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. 
William McCarroll, Mr. William J. McKay, Hon. Levi P. 
Morton, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Hon. Cornelius A. 
Pugsley, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick W. 
Seward, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. William B. Van 
Rensselaer, and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Tunis G. 
Bergen, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Maj.-Gen. Frederick D. 
Grant, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, Mr. 
August F. Jaccaci, Hon. Seth Low, Rear Adm. George 
W. Melville, Hon. John E. Parsons, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. George G. Raymond, Mr. 
Herman Ridder, Col. Herbert L. Satterlce, President 
Jacob G. Schurman, Col. John W. Vrooman, Dr. Samuel 
B. Ward, Mr. Charles R. Wilson, and Hon. Timothy L. 
Woodruff, and they were excused. 

Approval of Minutes Deferred. 
As the minutes of the last meeting had not yet been 
printed and sent to the members, owing to the shortness of 
the interval since that meeting, their approval was deferred. 



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Treasurer's Report. 
The report of tlie Acting Treasurer, Hon. George W. 
Perkins, was read, showing the state of the treasury Octo- 
ber 28, 1908, as follows: 

DEBIT. 

Balance on hand September zt,, 1908 $5>532 35 



86 

87 
88 
89 
90 

91 
92 

93 
94 

95 



CREDIT. 

Paid on approved vouchers : 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing ^t^2 00 

J. B. Lyon, Co., printing 4 50 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing 49 31 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing I 35 

Henry Romeike, press clippings.. 2 76 

Nautical Gazette, papers i 95 

Ames & Rollinson, engrossing. ... 27 00 

J. A. Cooke, mimeographing 4 90 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery. 3 05 

E. H. Hall, disbursements 47 85 

E. H. Hall, salary June-September. 1,000 00 



1,174 67 
Balance on hand October 28, 1908 $4-357 68 



The report was received and referred to the Auditing 
Committee. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following bills were approved for payment, sub- 
ject to examination and approval by the Auditing Com- 
mittee : 

J. A. Cooke, mimeographing 

Polhemus Printing Co., i do.z. note books.. 

Polhemus Printing Co., i ream paper 

J. B. 'Lyon Co., Minutes of September 18-23, 



$1 20 
50 

2 75 
52 33 


$56 78 



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The Proposed Nczo Jersey Appointments. 
The President reported that on September 29. 1908, in 
pursuance of Mr. Stetson's suggestion (recorded on page 
555 of the minutes), he had written to Governor Hughes 
respectfully inviting his favorable consideration of the 
recommendations made by Governor Stokes of Xew Jer- 
sey concerning the appointment of ten distinguished citi- 
zens of that state as members of this Commission, and had 
received a letter dated October 20, 1908, from Mr. Robert 
H. Fuller, Secretary to the Governor, saying: " I think the 
Governor will be glad to make the appointments which you 
endorse as soon as he takes up the matter of additional ap- 
pointments to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
as he intends to do in the near future." 

Hudson River Scenery Connnittee Appointed. 
The President announced that in pursuance of the 
resolution adopted by the Trustees September 23 ( pp. 568- 
569), he had appointed the following committee on the 
subject of the preservation of the scenery of the Hudson 
River : The Hon. Alton B. Parker, chairman ; Mr. Henry 
E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, the Hon. George 
W. Perkins, Gen. Charles F. Roe, and Col. Herbert L. Sat- 
terlee. In making these appointments, the President stated 
that he had named Judge Parker as Chairman, not only on 
account of his distinguished position as a citizen, but also 
on account of his deep interest in the perpetuation of the 
natural beauty of the river in the valley of which he had 
lived the greater part of his life. Mr. Gregory had been 
one of the most earnest workers in this cause. Air. Hall 
was Secretary of the American Scenic and Historic Pre- 
servation Society. The sympathies of Mr. Perkins. Presi- 
dent of the Interstate Palisades Park Commission, were not 
limited to the jurisdiction of that Commission, but em- 
braced the whole river. Gen. Roe was Chairman of the 



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Association for the Protection of the Highlands, and- Col. 
Satterlee was a member of the Executive Committee of 
that Association. 

Resignation of Gen. Grant Tabled. 

A letter dated Governor's Island, New York, October 23,, 
1908, from Major-General Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., 
commanding the Department of the East, was read, tender- 
ing his resignation as a member of the Commission. Gen. 
Grant stated that he would leave New York for Fort 
Wayne, Detroit, on October 23, on court martial duty and 
would not return until between November i and 4. and 
continued as follows : 

I regret to say that on or about November 9, 1908, I 
will leave New York to take command of my new com- 
mand, the Department of the Lakes, and consequently will 
not be able to attend the meetings of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration in the future. It seems to me proper, there- 
fore, to submit my resignation as member of the Commis- 
sion, which I do with regret. 

Will you say to the Commission that this parting with 
them is a great distress to me, as I had laid great stress on 
being of assistance to them and a part of their great cele- 
bration ? 

Thanking you and them for the many courtesies and the 
great consideration shown me, believe me, 

Very sincerely yours, 

Frederick D. Grant, 
Major-General, U. S. A. 

The President expressed the very hearty appreciation 
felt bv the Trustees for the valuable and active cooperation 
of Gen. Grant thus far and their great regret at his pros- 
pective removal to Chicago; but he said that it was just 
possible that matters might be arranged so that Gen. Grant 
could serve the Commission, particularly in connection with 
the Military Parade, and he suggested that action on the 
resignation be deferred. 

The letter was, therefore, laid on the table. 



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Subject of Historical Pageant Referred to Plan and Scope 
Committee. 

The Secretary stated that at the last meeting- of the 
Trustees, the recommendations of the special committee on 
Pageantry and Carnival Parade had been approved, author- 
izing the Executive Committee, upon recommendation of 
the President, to engage a manager of the Historical Page- 
ant, a manager of the Carnival Parade, and such other 
persons as might be necessary to assist in the preparation 
of the celebration. Since that meeting there had been no 
meeting of the Executive Committee, and it was thought 
that as a matter of both propriety and practical assistance, 
the views of the Plan and Scope Committee should be in- 
vited. • In the programme as outlined by the Plan and 
Scope Committee, no provision was made for an Historical 
Pageant as a feature separate from and in addition to the 
Carnival Parade proposed for Saturday night. It would 
seem to be advisable, therefore, to determine first, whether 
we should have such an Historical Pageant ; second 
whether it should be a day or night parade; and third, who 
should have charge of it. In connection with the latter 
phase of the subject, applications had been received from 
Mr. William Parry of New York, who, as has been stated 
before, was assistant to Mr. Frank Lascelles, Pageant 
Master at Quebec ; Mr. William A. Ellis of New York, 
who had planned pageants, etc., at Coney Island and had 
contributed largely to the success of " Dreamland ;" Mr. 
Joseph Jackson of Philadelphia, who was assistant director 
of the recent Historical Pageant in Philadelphia; and ]\Ir. 
Nelson Roberts of New York. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the matter of an Historical Page- 
ant, together with the applications for the directorship, be 
referred to the Plan and Scope Committee. Carried. 



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Proposal of Pain Manufacturing Co. as Official 
Illnminators. 
The Secretary laid before the Trustees the proposition of 
Mr. James F. Graham, in behalf of the Pain Manufacturing 
Co. of New York, to be designated as Official Illuminators 
and to take charge of the illumination of the Hudson River 
from Xew York to Troy on Saturday night, October 2, 
1909. Following is a summary of the plan proposed: 

The Pain J\Ianufacturing Co. proposes that the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission shall designate that Com- 
pany as Official Illuminators and Pyrotechnists of the 
Celebration. The Company, without expense to the Com- 
mission, will assume all the labor and responsibility for 
carrying out a chain of scientific bon-fires and illuminations 
from New York to Troy, subject in every respect to the 
approval of the Commission. The Commission is desired 
to issue to the Company proper authority with which it can 
approach the officials of the various towns, cities and vil- 
lages interested and cause them to enter into the scheme as 
a whole, each community assuming the expense of its local 
illumination. With such authority, the Company will visit 
the various communities and offer to build three grades of 
Don-fires on the mountains, hill-tops, or other eligible 
points selected, as follows : 

Grade A : This fire, to be placed at the most important 
points, will have a base about 24 feet in diameter and be 
about 30 feet hig-h. This will burn brilliantly for 4 hours 
and cost $1,000. 

Grade B: About 18 feet in diameter, and 24 feet high, 
and will burn about 3 hours. Cost $500. 

Grade C: About 12 feet in diameter and 18 feet high, 
to burn about 2 hours. Cost $250. 

These bon-fires are not to be made of tar-barrels, faggots 
or other ordinary materials, requiring constant addition of 
fresh fuel to maintain their brilliancy and subject to the 
vicissitudes of the weather. They will be constructed of 
scientifically prepared cumbustibles, consisting chiefly of 
peat which has been dried and then saturated with a special 
preparation. Made of these materials and built up in a 
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October 28, 1908 605 

combustion, the fire will burn brightly even in a rain storm. 
In the big- bon-fires the fiames will closely resemble the Pil- 
lars of Fire of Bible times. The principal fires are to be 
connected by electricity and ignited simultaneously upon 
the touch of an electric button by the President of the 
United States if he will consent to perform that ceremony. 

In conjunction with the bon-fires there will be displays of 
aerial fireworks at intervals during the evening, ending at 
mid-night with salvos which will reach from shore to shore. 
The displays will consist of Aerial Salutes, Heavy Colored 
Lights, Exhibition Rockets, Parachute and Floating Efifect 
Rockets, Tourbillions. Batteries of various assortments, 
Magnesium Lights, Mines of Serpents, Colorerl Bombs, 
etc., in quantities according to grade. 

Among the eligible points suggested are Beldoe's Island, 
Riverside Drive near Grant's Tomb, and Fort George in 
New York City; Fort Lee, X. J.. 300 feet high, and at in- 
tervals along the Palisades, 400 to 500 feet high ; Hook 
Mountain, 610 feet; Bear ^^lountain, 1314 feet; Dimder- 
berg, 1 120 feet; Anthony's Nose, 900 feet; Sugar Loaf 
Mountain, 785 feet; Cro' Ne^t, 1.405 feet; Taurus, 1,425 
feet; and Breakneck and South Beacon, 1635 feet. The 
Catskills offer North Mountain. 3,000 feet ; Platterskill, 
3,135 feet; Outlook, 3.150 feet; Stoppel Point, 3,426 feet; 
Round Top, 3,470 feet ; High Peak, 3,660 feet ; Sugar Loaf, 
3,782 feet ; and Plateau, 3,855 feet. Some of the points 
where beacons were erected during the Revolution under 
the direction of Lord Sterling, the American General, 
might also be selected. 

The project proposed is the most stupendous of its kind 
in history, but is deemed entirely practicable. At the time 
of the Queen's Jubilee in England, a chain of such fires 
was executed with great success for a distance of seventy- 
five miles north of London. The peat proposed to be used 
in the Hudson celebration will be imported unless the Pain 
Company is successful in the search now being made for a 
suitable grade in this country. 

The Pain Company say that " The grand effect which 
will be produced by this unique illumination can hardly be 
told in words — a chain of beacons from New York to 
Albany in sight of each other, and the aerial signal being 



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responded to by the next station, forming a live link for 
164 miles, and both banks of the river being brought to- 
gether at intervals by the arching of the sky with beams of 
light. ... As soon as we are officially confirmed, we will 
begin operations to get all the cities, towns and villages to 
cooperate. But no literature will be put out until it has 
received the approval of your committee, for it is to be dis- 
tinctly understood that we work under your direction, so 
that the celebration will be official and a whole, no one 
having any advantage over another. . . . We guarantee 
success for the reason we have done something similar be- 
fore, only not quite so long."" 

The Seecretary added that from what ]\Ir. Graham had 
said he believed ^Ir. Berri could express an opinion con- 
cerning the responsibility of the Pain Company. 

Mr. Berri said that he knew nothing about the financial 
responsibility of the Company, but that as A^ice-President 
of the New York Commission to the Louisiana Purchase 
■Exposition he had had some relations with this company 
and its service had been very conscientious and even gener- 
ous, and it had carried out satisfactorily everything which 
it had undertaken. Personally, he would have abundant 
confidence in the company. We were now within eleven 
months of the celebration, with three summer months to 
come out. If the Commission should assume the responsi- 
bility of attending to the multitude of details of the illumi- 
nation and should fail, it would be exposed to criticism, but 
if it entrusted the work to the most responsible parties that 
could be found, it would be acquitted of its full duty. 
Somebody must go along the river, arouse the interest of 
the local communities, tell them how to do this thing and 
what it will cost. Circulars will not do it. It will require 
months of personal work. It did not matter who did it, 
■ provided it was done by some reliable party. 

Mr. Seward said that when the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee first considered Mr. Berri"s suggestion of the signal 



October 28, 1908 607 

fires, the members were highly pleased with it, but they had 
considered that it would be carried out spontaneously by 
the local communities as an expression of popular enthu- 
siasm. They had thought that the boys and young folk 
would build the fires without expense to the Commission. 
The idea of expensive illuminations and fireworks might 
be a good one. but it would be a departure from what he 
understood to be the original idea of the Plan and Scope 
Committee. 

Mr. Berri said that the original idea was not departed 
from. The Pain Manufacturing Co. did not expect the 
Commission to assume any expense unless for one or two 
fires to serve as connecting links where hiatuses might 
occur. 

After some further discussion the matter was referred to 
the Plan and Scope Committee, with power. (For the 
action of the Plan and Scope Committee, see page 615 
following). 

Additional Secretarial Assistance Authorised. 

The Secretary laid before the Trustees the applications 
of Mr. Eduardo Breker of New York and Mr. Clement H. 
Congdon of Philadelphia for engagement as assistants in 
connection with the secretary's office to perform duties 
which the demands upon the Assistant Secretary precluded 
him from performing. While he did not know enough 
about either of these gentlemen to recommend them, he 
was of the opinion that the engagement of an assistant 
with the right capabilities was eminently desirable, not only 
for the facilitation of work within the office, but also for 
the purpose of communicating to the public necessary in- 
formation concerning the arrangements for the Celebration. 
He thought that such a person might be secured at a salary 
of from $2,000 to $2,500. 

Mr. Berri expressed the idea that as a public commission 
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by correspondence, etc. to elicit expressions of popular 
opinion and to put the people in the fullest possession of 
the commission's plans. He would suggest, however, that 
the assistant be engaged not permanently, but only while 
his services were needed and satisfactory. 

]\Ir. Stetson approved of the suggestion and moved that 
the Secretary be authorized to employ a suitable person to 
perform such duties in connection with his office as he 
might deem necessary. 

After further remarks by Dr. Kunz. General Wilson and 
the Pressident, the motion was carried. 

Progress i^'ith Art Exhibit. 

Upon the regular call for reports from standing com- 
mittees, the chairmen of several advised the Trustees of 
progress. 

Dr. Kunz said that the subject of the proposed Art 
exhibit had received important consideration during the 
past few weeks and that at the next meeting ^Ir. De Forest 
would probably make an interesting report. 

Mr. Stetson Appointed Chairman of tJie Banquet Com- 
mittee. 
Upon reaching the Banquet Committee, the President 
announced the appointment of ^Ir. Stetson to the vacant 
chairmanship. He said that the dinner of the Xew York 
State Bar Association of which Mr. Stetson is President, 
given at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last January, at which 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, late United States Ambassador to 
Great Britain, and the Hon. James Bryce, British Ambas- 
sador to the United States, were guests of honor, was one 
of the most brilliant affairs of its kind ever given in the 
city. He did not ask Mr. Stetson to give an immediate 
answer, but asked him to take the appointment under con- 
sideration. 



October 28, 1908 609 

Mr. Stoddard's Proposal Referred to Carnival Parade 
Committee. 

In the absence of Mr. Ridder, chairman of the Carnival 
Parade Committee, the proposal of ]\Ir. A. H. Stoddard of 
New Orleans in connection with this feature of the cele- 
bration was referred to the Carnival Parade Committee. 

Imcood Hill Park. 
In the absence abroad of Mr. John E. Parsons, chairman 
of the Inwood Hill Park Committee, the Secretary stated 
that before ]\Ir. Parsons went away he had asked him to 
attend to certain details. The exaggerated prices demanded 
by some of the owners of real estate on Inwood Hill had 
deterred the city authorities from taking any action 
hitherto ; but now, fortunately, some of the property owners 
were coming to their senses and under the leadership of 
one very sensible citizen were evincing a disposition to sell 
at a satisfactory price. He hoped that at the November 
meeting the Committee would be able to report very dis- 
tinct progress. 

Official Literary Exercises. 

Gen. Wilson reported that the plans of the Committee on 
Official Literary Exercises were well advanced so far as the 
meetings in the ^Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie 
Hall were concerned, but that they were at a standstill 
with respect to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It had 
been intimated to the committee that the latter auditorium 
would be placed at the service of the Commission without 
money and without price, as the former two had been, but 
the committee was still awaiting, this generous tender. 

The President suggested that a letter to the Hon. Charles 
A. Schieren, President of the Brooklyn Academv of 
Music, would elicit a definite statement of the terms upon 
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Vcrplanck's Point Park. 
Air. Pugsley, Chairman of the Verplanck's Point Park 
Committee, reported that this committee intended to renew 
its apphcation to the next legislature for legislation creat- 
ing the park and hoped 'to secure favorable action. 

Resignation of President Woodford Tabled. 

At the end of the call for committee reports, the Presi- 
dent spoke substantially as follows : 

" I am sorry that the inclement weather has kept away 
so many Trustees from this meeting, but I am encouraged 
to see so many here. I greatly regret that I have to leave 
the country on Wednesday, November 4, to spend the 
winter either on the Riviera or in Rome. I have worked 
so hard to get the affairs of this Commission organized 
that 'it is a real grief to me that I shall be absent. But I 
feel that we are nou^ so near to the celebration that it is 
my duty to resign the presidency of the Commission so 
that vou may choose a successor who will be on hand dur- 
ing the winter to attend to the duties of this office. No 
honor during my life have I appreciated so much as that 
of being President of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission ; no duty has ever been so pleasant : and no one 
can have a greater or more affectionate interest in what 
you are doing. Yet duty and judgment unite in compell- 
ing me to present my resignation. If you do not act 
upon it to-day, I have, in accordance with the by-laws, 
designated Mr. Ridder as Acting President until you can 
select my successor. I cannot express to you my apprecia- 
tion of the friendship and helpful relations which I have 
enjoyed in this office, and if accident should prevent 
my coming back in the spring, I want to assure you now 
of the gratitude which I feel for the manifold evi- 
dences of your confidence and of my sincere wishes for 
your welfare and success. As I said before, it is my judg- 



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ment that I should resign the office of President of this 
Commission, which I do now hereby resign." 

Mr. Brower expressed great regret that the President 
felt it necessary to resign. He moved that the resignation 
be laid on the table and that the President be given a leave 
of absence. 

Mr. Stetson suggested that Mr. Brower divide his motion, 
and he would second the first half, to the effect that the 
resignation be laid on the table. "All of us who have been 
following the proceedings of the Commission," he said, 
" cannot but be profoundly regretful at the resignation. 
We cannot overestimate the great value of the President's 
contributions of time, interest and intelligent efitort to this 
work. I am usually apprehensive of the consequences of 
swapping horse while crossing the stream. But I know 
the sincerity of our President and I know the conditions 
that exist, and it is impossible to suppose that this great 
celebration can be carried through without some one acting 
and on the ground performing the duties of this office. We 
must have a President during these important six months, 
and I second the motion to lay the resignation on the table 
imtil we can consider the matter. If it shall prove. best to 
accede to his request and choose a successor, we cannot, 
perhaps, ask him to resume the presidency ; but we trust 
that he will come back with renewed health to resume his 
place as a member of this Board of Trustees — and to take 
the position of Chairman of the Banquet Committee. 

Mr. Berri thought it would be best for us to proceed 
during the winter till Gen. Woodford returned. " Our 
plans," he said, " are progressing in splendid shape, and we 
can almost see the celebration. The situation is so good 
that it doesn't seem fair to have someone else as President 
to carry out the plans when General Woodford has been so 
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Mr. Seward, addressing the President, said : " I heartily 
concur in what Mr. Berri and Mr. Stetson have said. We 
want you as President at the celebration. We can get along- 
without you for a while, but we want you here as Presi- 
dent at the end as you were at the beginning." 

Mr. Van Rensselaer: "Mr. President, can't you with- 
draw your resignation?" 

The President : " I am deeply touched by your most 
generous sentiments but I feel that I must adhere to my 
resolution. The motion is that my resignation be placed 
upon the table. Are you ready for the question?" 

After several other expressions similar to those already 
made, the motion was put and carried. 

The President: "Gentlemen; I can only say. I thank 

you." 

Assistcijit Secretary's Salary. 

At this point, the President asked the Assistant Secretary 
to attend to some matters in the adjoining office. 

The Secretary then said that he was only repeating what 
had been said to him by the President when he proposed 
that the salary paid to Mr. Hall as Assistant Secretary 
should be increased to an amount more nearly commen- 
surate with the actual worth of his services to the Com- 
mission. No one, Mr. Sackett said, could appreciate so 
well as the President and Secretary the real value of what 
Mr. Hall was doing and how indispensable his services 
were. But all the members familiar with the undertakings 
of the Commission knew that the salary that had been paid 
to the Assistant Secretary was meagre compensation, con- 
sidering the quality of his work. During the next year, 
the labors of the Assistant Secretary would be greatly in- 
creased and it would not be just to allow the salary to 
remain at the present rate of $250 per month. In making 
a recommendation for an increase of that salary, the Secre- 
tarv said that he would not name as large an amount as 



October 28, 1908 613 

should be paid Mr. Hall ; but he believed that the scantiest 
justice required that he should receive a salary at least at 
the rate of $3,600 per year. He therefore moved that be- 
ginning November i, 1908, the salary of Air. Hall as As- 
sistant Secretary be increased from $250 to $300 per month. 

The motion was seconded by several Trustees. Before 
putting the motion, the President spoke in emphatic terms 
of the value of Mr. Hall's services. The motion was^ car- 
ried unanimously. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



6i5 
Minutes of 

Plan and Scope Committee 

October 28, 1908. 

Pain Manxifacturing Co. Appointed Official Illuminators. 

Immediately after the adjournment of the Board of 
Trustees, on Wednesday, October 28, 1908, a meeting of 
the Plan and Scope Committee was held at the head- 
quarters of the Commission. 

Present : The Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, 
presiding; and Hon. William Berri, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Hon. William McCarroll, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Gen. 
James Grant Wilson and Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. 

The Chairman said that while the Committee had several 
subjects to consider, it would now take up the proposal of 
the Pain Manufacturing Co. to act as official illuminators 
and defer the other matters until a future meeting. As all 
the members of the committee present were also present at 
the Trustees' meeting earlier in the afternoon, they were 
familiar with the proposition and he need not recapitulate it. 
He said that Mr. Graham, representing the Pain Co., was 
in the adjacent room and was ready to answer any ques- 
tions that might be asked. 

A brief discussion of the general subject by Mr. Berri, 
Mr. Stetson, Dr. Kunz and Mr. McCarroll ensued. 

Mr. Berri was inclined to favor the arrangement if the 
Pain Co. was the best party, but he advised imposing such 
conditions that the Company would be entirely under the 
control of the Commission. 

Mr. Stetson remembered the amateur attempts to illumi- 
nate the Hudson on July 4, 1876, and thought they were 
not very effective. H it were distinctly understood that 
this Commission should not be financially responsible for 
more than two $1,000 fires, he was disposed to regard the 



6i6 Plan and Scope Committee 

project of the Pain Co. favorably. That concern had been 
in business many years and had a good reputation. 

Dr. Kunz suggested extending the ihumination along the 
Erie canal to Lake Erie. 

Mr. McCarroll hoped the illumination of the Hudson 
would not detract from the interest in the Celebration in 
New York City. 

Mr. Graham was then invited to enter and explained his 
proposal on the lines already indicated in the minutes of the 
Trustees' meeting (p. 604). He said that his Company 
would assume all responsibility for accidents, etc. and 
would submit the terms of its arrangements with the local 
authorities to this Commission for approval. 

Referring to Dr. Kunz's suggestion, Mr. Stetson sug- 
gested that the illumination might, with propriety, be ex- 
tended to the Champlain Valley, as the ter-centenary of the 
discovery of Lake Champlain was to be celebrated also 
next year. 

After some further discussion, Mr. Stetson moved that 
an arrangement in writing with the Pain Manufacturing 
Company on the basis outlined by Mr. Graham, be author- 
ized, with the understanding that the expense to this Com- 
mission should not exceed $2,000. Carried. 

Adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of November 20 and 30, 1908 

with 

Full list of Committees and 

Full list of Members and Addresses. 



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President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, i8 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting President. 
182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Rear Adni. J. B. Coghlan, U.S.N. Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Assistants to tKe Secretary 

Mr. George N. Moran, Mr. David T. Wells. 

General Executive Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



A list of Committees and a list of Members with their 
addresses will be found on pages 665-686 following: 



6i9 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

November 20, 1908. 

The thirtieth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held, pursuant to spe- 
cial call, at headquarters in the Tribune Building, No. 154 
Nassau street. New York City, Friday, November 20, 1908, 
at 3 P. M. 

Roll Call. 

Present : Acting President Herman Ridder, presiding ; 
and Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. Henry 
W. Cannon, Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel V. Hoff- 
man, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. 
William McCarroll, Mr. William J. McKay, Mr. William 
C. Muschenheim, Mr. Ludwig Nissen, Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Mr. 
Henry W. Sackett, President Jacob G. Schurman, Mr. 
Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Francis 
Lynde Stetson, Mr. Spencer Trask, Col. John W. Vrooman, 
Hon. Nathan A. Warren and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 
Also Mr. Howland Pell of the Carnival Parade Committee. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Curtis, Mr. Thomas Powell Fowler, Gen. Horatio C. King, 
Hon. Seth Low, Rear Adm. George W. Melville, U. S. N., 
Com. Jacob W. Miller, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, Dr. 
Samuel B. Ward and Mr. Charles R. Wilson, and they 
were excused. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the meetings of October 14 and October 
28, having been printed and sent to all the members, were 
approved as printed. 



620 Minutes of Trustees 

Report of the Treasurer. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. SeHgman, concerning 
the State fund of $12,500 received under Chapter 325 of 
the Laws of 1906, was as follows, there having been no 
disbursements since the last meeting: 

DEBIT. 

To balance on hand October 28, 1908 $4,357 68 

To interest on deposits June 30, 1908 103 31 

Total debit and balance Nov. 20, 1908 $4460 99 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Paymient. 
The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee : 

Henry Romeike, clippings $1 62 

De-Fi Manufacturing Co., carbon paper 3 5° 

J. B. Lyon Co., note-heads 5 00 

J. B. Lyon Co., envelopes and letter-heads 11 00 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $59 43 

E. H. Hall, salary for November. . . 300 00 

359 43 

State Treasurer, interest on deposits. June 30. . 103 31 

$483 86 

Nominated for Appointment on Conunissioji. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations, 
presented a report recommending the following named 
gentlemen for appointment by the Mayor of New York 
as members of the Commission : 

Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, of the firm of Phelps, Dodge 
& Co., at No. 99 John street. New York; a director of the 
National City Bank, the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., and 
other financial institutions; a Trustee of Prmceton Uni- 
versity and a Trustee of the John F. Slater Fund ; 

James Douglas, LL.D., mining engineer of No. 99 John 
street New York, formerly Professor of Chemistry at 
Morrin College, Quebec; President of the Copper Queen 
Consolidated Mining Co., and other copper companies; 



November 20, 1908 621 

author of " Canadian Independence," " Old France in the 
New World," etc. ; and twice President of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers ; 

Commander Wm. B. Franklin, of the firm of W. B. 
Franklin & Co., brokers, at No. 11 1 Broadway, New York; 
formerly Lieutenant in the United States Navy and for 
eight years Commander of the ist Battalion of the Naval 
Mihtia of the State of New York; 

Lieut. Charles E. Heitman, of No. 40 Wall street, late of 
the United States Navy ; 

Mr. John J. McKelvey, attorney and counsellor-at-law, 
No. 84 William street, New York; 

Captain Aaron Ward of the United States Navy, Army 
Building, New York; 

And Major General Leonard A. Wood, U. S. A., who 
has succeeded Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant in command 
of the Department of the East with headquarters at Gov- 
ernor's Island. 

Upon motion of Mr. Fitch, the nominations were unani- 
mously approved. 

Geii. Roe Appointed Chairman of Military Parade 
Committee. 
Mr. Fitch also reported with reference to the resignation 
of Gen. Grant as a member of the Commission which was 
laid on the table at the meeting held Oct. 28 (page 602) 
that he had been in correspondence with Gen. Grant, and 
that Gen. Grant had withdrawn his resignation as a member 
of the Commission, while resigning as chairman of the 
Military Parade Committee. Mr. Fitch therefore offered 
the following resolution : 

Resolved that the report of the Nominating Committee 
be approved ; that we are highly pleased that Gen. Grant 
has withdrawn his resignation and will remain a member 
of our Commission ; that his resignation of the Chairman- 
ship of the Committee on Military Parade be accepted, 
and that we recommend the appointment of Maj. Gen. 
Charles F. Roe as Chairman of such Committee. 

The resolution was adopted, and the Acting President 
announced that in accordance with the recommendation he 
appointed Gen. Roe as Qiairman of the Mihtary Parade 
Committee. 



622 Minutes of Trustees 

Historical Pageant Question Referred to Carnival Parade 
Committee. 

Mr. Seward, Chairman of the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee, reported that immediately prior to the present 
Trustees' meeting, a joint meeting of the Plan and Scope 
Committee and the Carnival Parade Committee had been 
held, (Gen. Wilson, presiding) at which was discussed the 
subject of the proposed Historical Pageant which was re- 
ferred to the Plan and Scope Committee by the Trustees 
on October 28 (page 603). He said that the Plan and 
Scope Committee did not wish to make a recommendation 
on the subject until it could learn whether a separate His- 
torical Pageant during the day-time would interfere with 
the Carnival Parade on Saturday evening, or whether the 
two parades could be combined satisfactorily. The result 
of the joint discussion was that the two committees recom- 
mended that the subject be referred to the Carnival Parade 
Committee for further consideration and report. 

The report was received and the recommendation 
adopted. 

Recomuiendations by the Acting President Concerning 
Committees and Employed Assistants. 

The Secretary read the following report of the Acting 
President, made pursuant to the action of the Trustees 
recorded 011 pages 580-586 of the minutes : 

To the Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration Commission, Gentlemen : 

In pursuance of the resolution passed Oct. 14, authoriz- 
ing the Executive Committee, upon recommendation of the 
President, to engage certain assistants to carry out the 
plans for the celebration next year, I respectfully make the 
following recommendations : 

I St. I recommend that we engage Mr. Parry* at once, 
under a revokable contract, as Business Manager or General 
Executive Assistant, at a salary not to exceed $625 per 
month. Until his duties in that capacity absorb all his 
time, I would suggest that he formulate a preliminary 



*Mr. Wm. Parry of New York. See pages 532 et seq. 



November 20, 1908 623 

scheme for an Historical Pageant, find out just what it will 
cost and prepare his plans so that if we find we can afford 
it he will be ready to begin work at once. If the Pageant 
scheme is abandoned, we can drop him or retain him in 
some other capacity. If we do have the Pageant, we may 
want to change the allotment of his duties by giving him 
the Directorship of the Pageant and getting somebody else 
as General Executive Assistant or making him General 
Executive Assistant and making somebody else Director of 
Pageant. 

2nd. I recommend that we engage Mr. Stoddardf under 
a revokable contract as Captain of the Carnival Parade 
for Saturday night at a salary not to exceed $416.66 per 
month, with an additional allowance not to exceed $1,000 
for services of artists, and set him to work at once on that 
feature of the celebration. It is possible that as prepara- 
tions progress, the relations of Mr. Stoddard to the cele- 
bration, like those of Mr. Parry, may advantageously be 
readjusted. 

3rd. I recommend the prompt engagement of a secretarial 
assistant, to prepare for current publication matter which 
will keep the public fully advised of the Commission's 
preparations and to perform such other duties as may be 
assigned to him by the President or Secretary. 

4th. And this I think is extremely important — I recom- 
mend that the Acting President be authorized to appoint a 
full complement of Committees to take charge of every 
branch of work that we can foresee. These committees 
should be requested to go to work at once ; to formulate 
tiie details of their particular part of the programme and 
to submit an estimate of cost at the December meeting of 
the Trustees. It will then be possible for the Ways and 
Means Committee to make these estimates up into a budget 
before the Legislature meets, so that we can get some con- 
crete idea of our financial requirements. Our present 
notions on this subject are only the most general and un- 
scientific. Then we must arrange our plans according to 
our resources. If we are going to raise a subscription we 
must begin work on that also. 

I submit herewith a scheme for a full set of Commit- 
tees. The Philadelphia celebration in October was car- 
ried on by 94 different committees, with a membership of 
898 persons. We have in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission 359 members, including 46 Mayors of Cities 



t Mr. A. H. Stoddard of New Orleans. See pages 528 et seq. 



624 Minutes of Trustees 

throughout the State and 38 Presidents of Villages along 
the Hudson river. 

We have at present 19 Committees. I suggest herewith 
a scheme of 39 Committees, namely, the 19 present Com- 
mittees and 20 more. These, I think, can take care of 
everything that has thus far shown any prospect of entering 
into our plans. If this plan meets with the approval of 
the Trustees, I propose to assign every member of the Com- 
mission to some Committee, so that we may have the benefit 
of the counsel and active work of every member of the 
Commission. 

5th. Following is the proposed list of committees by 
titles, existing committees being indicated by a cross mark. 
After this list of titles is an outline of the duties of each 
committee.* If this plan is adopted, I recommend that 
a meeting of the whole Coinmission be held 011 Monday, 
Nov. 30, at 3 o'clock p. m., in the Council Chamber of the 
City Hall, for the use of which we have already secured 
permission by the courtesy of Borough President Ahearn. 
By that date, I will endeavor to have the Committees made 
up, so that the membership can be announced and from that 
date every member of the Commission will know, not only 
that he is to have an active share in the preparations for 
the Celebration, but also that he shares the responsibility 
for its success. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Herman Ridder, 

Acting President. 

Titles of Committees. 

^Aeronautics. 

*Art and Historical Exhibits. 

Aquatic Sports. 
^Auditing. 

Badges, Flag and Poster. 
^Banquet. 
*Carnival and Historical Parades. 

Children's Festivals. 

Clermont. 

Decorations and Reviewing Stands. 

Dedications. 



*For outline of duties of committee, see list of committees on 
pages 665-679 following: 



November 20, 1908 625 

*Executive. 

^General Commemorative Exercises. 

Half Moon. 

Historical. 

Hospitality. 
*Hudson River Scenery. 

Illuminations. 
^Invitations. 
*Inwood Park. 
*Law and Legislation. 

Lectures. 

Local Celebrations. 

Medal. 
^Memorials. 
^Military Parade. 

Music Festival. 
*Naval Parade. 

Newburgh Ceremonies. 
*Nominations. 

North Hudson. 
^Official Literary Exercises. 

Old Home Week. 
*P;an and Scope. 
^Reception. 

Religious Services. 

Transportation. 
*Verplanck's Point Park. 
*Ways and Means. 

Scheme of Conniiittces, With Additions, Approved. 

Commissioner McCarroll moved the approval of the pro- 
posed scheme of committees. He said that the need for a 
complete organization was obvious and the plan proposed 
was valuable in putting the responsibility for the success 
of the celebration on all the members and arousing their 
interest. 

General Wilson suggested the addition of two more com- 
mittees, one oil Public Health and Convenience and one 
on Public Safety. 



626 Minutes of Trustees 

These additions were approved, and with this amend- 
ment Commissioner McCarroll's motion was adopted. 

Meeting of the Coininission Called for November 30. 

Judge Higley moved that the Acting President's recom- 
mendation for a meeting of the whole Commission, to be 
held in the Council Qiamber of the City Hall on Monday, 
Nov. 30, at 3 p. M., be adopted. 

Mr. Stetson moved to amend by changing the hour to 
2 o'clock. 

The amendment was adopted and the motion as amended 
was carried. 

Meeting of the Trustees Called for A'^ozrniber 30. 
Commissioner McCarroll moved that a meeting of the 
Trustees be held in the Council Chamber of the City Hall 
on Monday, Nov. 30, at 1.30 p. m., in order that the list 
of members of the committees might be read for informa- 
tion and informal suggestion before presentation to the 
Commission meeting at 2 o'clock. Carried. 

Engagement of JVni. Parry as General Executive Assistant 
Authorized. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the Acting President's recom- 
mendation concerning the engagement of Mr. William 
Parry as General Executive Assistant at a salary not to 
exceed $625 a month be approved. He urged that it was 
necessary for the Commission to start on its actual work, 
and it was essential to obtain information by means of 
some competent person hke Mr. Parry in order to find out 
our position. 

After a brief discussion the motion was carried. 

Engagement of A. H. Stoddard as Captain of Carnival 
Parade Authorized. 
Mr. Stetson also moved that the Acting President's 
recommendation concerning the engagement of ]\Ir. A. H. 
Stoddard as Captain of the Carnival Parade at a salary not 
to exceed $416.66 a month, with an extra allowance not to 



November 20, 1908 627 

exceed a total of $1,000 for artists, be approved. The 
remarks which he had previously made in regard to the 
necessity of employing Mr. Parry applied equally to Mr. 
Stoddard. 

The motion was carried. 

$15,000 Appropriated for Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
Dr. Kunz, member of the Committee on Art and His- 
torical Exhibits and chairman of the sub-committee on 
Historical Exhibits, reported that after a number of con- 
ferences with Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, President of 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hon. Robert W. 
De Forest, Chairman of the sub-committee on Art Exhibits, 
he was pleased to report that the Museum would use the 
new wing of the building for an art exhibition which would 
be a notable event in the American art world. The ex- 
hibition would probably last from three to six months and 
would be known as the Hudson-Fulton Exhibition of 
Art. It would be composed of works of the Dutch and 
English and possibly the Colonial schools of painters. 
Admission to the exhibition would be free. It was pro- 
posed to issue a popular priced catalogue of the pictures 
and possibly the Museum would also issue a catalogue 
de luxe. Toward the expenses of the exhibition and the 
popular catalogue, the Museum authorities and the Com- 
mittee of which Dr. Kunz was a member thought that this 
Commission should appropriate $15,000. Dr. Kunz said 
he had made a careful estimate of expenses and had 
thought that the Museum would ask for $30,000. He 
therefore offered a resolution (which he subsequently sub- 
mitted in writing) as follows : 

Resolved, That the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion hereby appropriates the sum of $15,000 to the sub- 
committee on Art Exhibits toward the expenses attending 
what is to be known as the Hudson-Fulton Exhibition of 
Art, to be held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 
year 1909 ; that this Commission does not assume any 
financial responsibility for the exhibition beyond the sum 
above named ; and that this appropriation is made with the 
understanding that each painting exhibited is to be labeled 



628 Minutes of Trustees 

with the name of the artist, the name of the owner, and, 
if possible, the subject; that out of the appropriation hereby 
made the committee is to issue a simple catalogue for gen- 
eral distribution, to be sold at a price not exceeding twenty 
cents a copy, and which may be mailed as a Bulletin of the 
Museum to be known as the Hudson-Fulton Exhibition 
Number; and that said committee may act in cooperation 
with any committee appointed for that purpose by the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Museum stafif or 
others, whether members of the Commission or not. 

President Schurman heartily endorsed the proposed ap- 
propriation. He thought that in view of the great value of 
the exhibition, the amount asked was small. 

Mr. Trask said that the amount asked was so small that 
he should not wait a moment. 

The resolution was adopted. 

$1,000 Appropriated to the American Museum of Natural 

History. 
Dr. Kunz also reported that he had been in conference 
with Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Director of the American Museum 
of Natural History, and that that Institution was also 
ready to cooperate actively. Under date of November 6, 
1908, Dr. Bumpus had written to him as follows: 

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 

New York, November 6, 1908. 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
401 Fifth Avenue, 
New York. 

Dear Dr. Kunz : 

In reply to your letter of October 30, I would say that 
I have consulted with the officers of the Department of 
Ethnology, and would say that not only is the Museum 
prepared to make a special exhibit illustrative of the life, 
character, and industries of the aborigines at the time of 
the discovery of the Hudson, but it will prepare a publi- 
cation for general sale and circulation at the time of the 
celebration, which shall embody a full description of the 
material exhibited and a general treatment of the subject 
that will be of popular interest and of scientific authority. 
In order to do this, however, it will be necessary for us 
to have a sum of money set apart, say $1,000, which shall 
be used exclusively in the preparation of the publication. 



November 20, 1908 629 

and for author and clerical assistance, for outline drawings, 
maps, reproductions of photographs, field work, etc. Since 
the time is none too long, we would like to be able to begin 
work at once, and to this end I would ask if it would be 
possible for your Committee to advance the sum of $200. 

Thanking you for the interest that you are taking in 
this matter, and assuring you of our disposition to cooper- 
ate in every way within our power, I am 

Very cordially yours, 

H. C. BuMPUs, 

Director. 

Dr. Kunz offered a resolution, (which he subsequently 
submitted in writing) as follows : 

Resolved, That the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion hereby appropriate the sum of $1,000 to the American 
Museum of Natural History, toward the expenses of an 
exhibition to be held in the year 1909 illustrative of the 
life, character and industries of the aborigines at the time 
of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson ; 
that this Commission does not assume any financial re- 
sponsibility for the exhibition beyond the sum above 
named ; and that this appropriation is made with the under- 
standing that the Museum is to prepare for publication, 
for general sale and circulation at the time of the Cele- 
bration, a catalogue which shall embody a full description 
of the material exhibited and which may be published as 
a separate number of the American Museum of Natural 
History Journal to be known as the Hudson-Fulton 
Memorial Number. 

(The remarks of President Schurman, Mr. Stetson and 
Mr. Trask concerning the appropriation for the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art applied equally to the appropriation 
for the Museum of Natural History, both recommendations 
having been laid before the Trustees simultaneously but 
separated in these minutes.) 

The resolution was adopted. 

Progress With Other Exhibits. 

Dr. Kunz also reported progress in the arrangements with 
Mr. Archer M. Huntington, President of the American 
Geographical Society, the American Numismatic Society, 
and the Hispanic Society, and with Mr. Samuel V. Hoff- 
man, President of the New York Historical Society, etc. 



630 Minutes of Trustees 

Mr. Hoffman, supplementing Dr. Kunz's remarks, said 
that tip to the present time his Society liad been vmcertain 
as to its ability to cooperate in this matter, owing to the 
incomplete condition of the new building at Central Park 
West and 77th street. He said that the Society had 
recently moved into its new quarters, but that the Museum 
was unfinished, and the Society did not want to commit 
itself to a Hudson-Fulton exhibition unless it was sure it 
would be prepared to hold one. He was happy to state 
that on that very morning, Mr. Henry M. Dexter, who 
had so generously patronized the Society in the past, had 
offered to complete the Museum. 

Dr. Kiins Thanked. 

Mr. Stetson spoke in high terms of Dr. Kunz's efficient 
services in connection with the art and historical exhibits 
and moved that the very hearty thanks of the Board of 
Trustees be offered to him. 

After remarks in a similar vein by the Acting President 
and other Trustees the motion was carried. 

Design of Medal Referred to Medal Committee. 
Dr. Kunz laid before the Trustees a photograph of the 
design for the Hudson-Fulton medal as prepared by Mr. 
Fuchs," under the direction of the American Numismatic 
Society. 



* Emil Fuchs, the medalist, sculptor and painter, is a Viennese. 
He studied in the Berlin Academy from 1888 to 1891 ; in Rome 
from 1892 to 1897, and went to London in 1899. While in London, 
he designed by royal command the " Queen Victoria," " Queen 
Alexandria," " Prince and Princess of Wales," " Princess Henry 
of Battenberg," " Official Coronation," " Science, Art and Music," 
and " South African War " medals ; also the portrait of King 
Edward VII, now used on the postage stamps of Great Britain. 
He has also designed portrait medals of Field Marshal Lord 
Roberts, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, Governor General of 
Canada Earl Grey, and Field Marshal Sir George White. He has 
designed for the Hispanic Society of New York, of which Mr. 
Archer M. Huntington is president, its annual medal and member- 
ship medal. He has been president of the " Langham Club " 
(officially known as the The Artists' Society) of London and has 
painted pictures which have been hung at the Munich Exposition 
in 1905, in the Paris Salon in 1907, and in other notable exhibitions. 



November 20, 1908 631 

The obverse of the medal is devoted to the Hudson com- 
memoration The central and main design represents 
inboard of the Half Moon, Henry Hudson and a group of 
SIX sailors, watching the heaving of the lead. In the back- 
ground IS a suggestion of the scenery of the Hudson River 
In the margin are the legends: "Discovery of the Hudson 
River by Henry Hudson, A. D. MDCIX," "The American 
Numismatic Society" and "Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission, divided by small representations of the Half 
Moon the seal of the American Numismatic Society the 
seal o the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, an 
astrolabe, a jack-staff and a sextant. 

Upon the reverse, the Fulton idea is treated with a 
classical design consisting first of three seated, draped 
female figures. The central figure holds in her lap a model 
of the Clermont, and represents the genius of steam navi- 
gation. The figure at her right rests one hand on an 
anchor and represents commerce, while the figure at her 
left holds a pen and scroll, representing history. Upon 
a tablet in the central back ground between two columns 
IS a portrait of Fulton, made after West's painting, sur- 
rounded by a wreath. Under the portrait are the name 
and dates: Robert Fulton, 1765-1815." In the dexter 
back-ground IS a view of New York from the Hudson 
River m 1807 and in the sinister back-ground a recent view 
of the same. At the bottom of the design is the legend: 
First Use of Steam in Navigation on the Hudson River 
I007. ' 

Dr. Kunz said that the proposition of the Numismatic 
Society was that this Commission should contribute $r 000 
toward the cutting of the dies; that the Numismatic Society 
should have the privilege of striking two copies in gold and 
the first 100 copies in silver or bronze; that this Commission 
should control all other issues; and that the dies should 

Socrety^ '"''"'''"^ '"^ '''' '"'''''^^ °^ '^'' Numismatic 

Dr Kunz said that after the first dies were cut. replicas 
could be cut in other sizes by mechanical means at compara- 



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tively small cost. Thus there could be one large size ex- 
clusively for royalty, and graduated sizes smaller for other 
purposes, down to a small pocket piece. At the cost of a 
few cents per medal, the name of the recipient could be 
struck on the medal by means of an " inset," if the medal 
were so designed.* 

Mr. Stetson said concerning the proposed restriction of 
the issue of gold medals (mentioned on page 554 of the 
mini-tes) that he saw no objection to the striking of two 
copies in gold for members of the Numismatic Society who 
usually had copies in that metal. 

Mr. Hall said that he had Mr. Adams' consent to say that 
the members of the Numismatic Society for whom the two 
gold medals were intended were the President of the 
Numismatic Society and the President of the Metropohtan 
Museum of Art. 

The subject of the medal was finally referred to the new 
Committee on Medal, to be appointed in pursuance of the 
action of the Trustees earlier in the session. 

The Half Moon — Mr. Adams Thanked. 

Dr. Kunz said that the Assistant Secretary, who had 
made a careful study of the design of the Half Moon, could 
make some statement in regard to that feature of the medal 
design. 

Mr. Hall said Mr. Edward D. Adams, Chairman of the 
Publication Committee of the American Numismatic So- 
ciety, had taken the utmost pains to secure an accurate 
representation of the Half Moon on the medal. In view of 
the many fanciful and erroneous pictures of this vessel 
which appeared in printed histories, it was a matter of 
congratulation that such care had been taken in the medal 
design. Mr. Adams had secured from Vice-Admiral Roell 
retired of the Royal Dutch Navy a print of the design by 
which the people of Holland are constructing the fac-simile 
of the Half Moon. This design agreed entirely with the 

* Since the meeting of the 20th, Mr. Fiichs has expressed his 
approval of the suggestion that the foundations of the arch be used 
for insets. A few other minor changes have also been adopted. 



November 20, 1908 633 

conclusions reached by this Commission (recorded on pages 
500-509). Mr. Adams had also been aided by a small 
plaster relief made by Mr. Baay, assistant at the Rijks 
Museum at Amsterdam, who is draftsman of the working 
drawings of the Half Moon now being constructed. He 
was also aided by the vignette of Amsterdam Harbor as 
it appeared in 1606 which had been so useful in arriving 
at the correct design of the Half Moon. The latter, a 
framed print five feet long and thirteen inches wide, Mr. 
Adams had sent to the Commission with the following 
letter: 

New York, November 19, 1908. 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Asst. Sec'y. 

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Building, New York City. 
Dear Sir : Herewith I send you a framed reproduction 
of an engraving, now in the possession of the Rijks 
Museum. Amsterdam, Holland, bearing the date 1606 and 
representing the harbor of Amsterdam and numerous ex- 
amples of the various types of ships and boats then in use. 
The three-masted vessel on the extreme lower left of the 
picture is the type of the " Halve Maen " that is now being 
reproduced as a contribution of modern Holland to the 
Hudson Celebration proposed for next year. 

I take much pleasure in presenting this picture to the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission upon the under- 
standing that when the Commission ceases its activities this 
picture shall be delivered to the City History Club for 
preservation among its possessions. 

Respectfully yours, 

Edward D. Adams. 

Mr. Hall moved that the cordial thanks of the Trustees 
be given to Mr. Adams for his generous gift. Carried. 

Reports of Progress. 

Mr. Stetson, who was appointed chairman of the Banquet 
Committee on October 28, stated that he held the appoint- 
ment under consideration but had not yet accepted it. 

President Schurman, Chairman of the Committee on 
General Commemorative Exercises, reported progress. He 



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expressed the strong desire to have Hon. Andrew S. Draper 
of Albany, Commissioner of Education of the State of New 
York, a member of this Commission. 

Mr. Sackett (referring to page 459 of the Minutes) said 
that Commissioner Draper had been recommended to Gov. 
Hughes for appointment but that the Executive had thus 
far been too much preoccupied to attend to this and some 
similar recommendations of the Trustees. 

Mr. Gregory, from the Committee on Hudson River 
Scenery, reported that a meeting of that Committee had 
been held at the office of the Chairman, Chief Justice 
Parker, on Wednesday, the i8th inst., at which, after a 
general discussion of the subject, it was decided to secure 
the cooperation of Mr. F. P. Albert as Secretary of the 
Committee if possible. 

Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Law and Legislation Com- 
mittee, reported that he proposed to go before the Governor 
at an early date and endeavor to secure the balance of the 
appropriation asked for at the last session of the Legisla- 
ture, and to aid the up-state representatives to get their 
appropriation. 

Mr. Bergen, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
reported progress in regard to the commemorative coinage, 
commemorative postage stamps and souvenir programme. 

Gen. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Official 
Literary Exercises, reported that his Committee had gone as 
far as possible in its preparations and was now awaiting 
word in regard to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 

Mr. Pugsley, Chairman of the Committee on Verplanck's 
Point Park, reported progress. , 

Hudson Monument Project Approved. 

Mr. Bergen reported in favor of approving the project 
for the erection of a Hudson monument on Spuyten Duyvil 
Hill by private subscription, as recorded on pp. 565-566 of 
the minutes. He thought that if public-minded citizens 
were willing to erect such a memorial, they should be 
encouraged. 



November 2C, 1908 635 

In response to an inquiry as to the location of the pro- 
posed monument, Mr. Hall said that he had been informed 
that it was intended to place the monument at the northern 
end of the land acquired by the city on Spuyten Duyvil 
Hill for the northern terminal of the proposed Hudson 
Memorial Bridge. 

Mr. Samuel Parsons thought that the question of site 
should be very carefully considered. He favored the ap- 
proval of the general idea of the monument without com- 
mitting the Commission to the approval of details. 

Dr. Kunz pointed out that the Art Commission of the 
City of New York would have a veto power over the de- 
sign and the Park Department would have a voice in its 
location. He thought that the public interests in those re- 
spects were well safeguarded in advance. 

Mr. Muschenheim, one of the subscribers to the proposed 
monument, said that he was greatly interested in the 
beautification of the city, and he was one of the projectors 
of this monument. He was also engaged in three or four 
similar enterprises. He said that his own house on Spuyten 
Duyvil Hill stood on the foundation of Fort No. i, one of 
the supporting works of Fort Independence of the Revolu- 
tionary period. He contemplated moving his house and 
suitably marking the historic site himself. This would be 
but one of a chain of landmarks extending southward to 
Claremont and Morningside Heights. Next south would 
be the Hudson monument. Across the Spuyten Duyvil, on 
Inwood Hill, was the site of the Cock Hill Fort and he 
was making inquiries as to ownership in order to have that 
marked. A little further south was Fort Tryon, and he 
was in negotiations with the owner for the erection of a 
tablet there. Less than a mile further south was Fort 
Washington, already marked by a monument. And so on 
down to the scene of the Battle of Harlem, now marked 
by a tablet on Columbia University. On account of the 
location of the old Indian castle of Nipinichsen on Spuyten 
Duyvil Hill and the battle between Henry Hudson and the 
Indians from this village, he regarded Spuyten Duyvil Hill 
as pre-eminently the proper location for a Hudson monu- 



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ment. He said that one of the hardest things in the world 
was to give anything to the City. He induced Mr. Astor 
to give two isles of safety to the City in Long Acre Square 
(now Times Square) and when he tried to give two elec- 
troliers to the City he could hardly persuade the authorities 
to accept them. He said that it was intended to raise 
the money for the Hudson monument by subscription and 
not ask the City for a cent, and they wanted the official 
endorsement of this Commission. 

Mr. Sackett asked how much money they expected to 
raise. 

Mr. Muschenheim said that such projects were always a 
process of evolution. He was not sure, but thought be- 
tween $50,000 and $100,000. 

Mr. Bergen moved that this Commission approve of the 
general idea of erecting a monument to Henry Hudson, 
without committing the Commission to its details, and ask- 
ing Mr. Muschenheim and his colleagues to proceed. 

Mr. Seward said that the only question was whether the 
Commission would approve of a very laudable movement. 
He thought the Commission might properly say that it had 
received with interest and pleasure the information that a 
number of public-spirited citizens were desirous of erecting 
a monument to Henry Hudson, that it expressed its cordial 
thanks to them for their generous undertaking, and that it 
wished them success. 

Mr. Bergen accepted Mr. Seward's statement as the sub- 
stance of his motion, and as such, it was carried. 

Appointments on Invitation Committee. 

When the Committee on Invitations was reached in the 
call of committees the Acting President announced the ap- 
pointment of the Hon. Joseph H. Choate as Chairman, in 
place of the late Hon. Grover Cleveland. This, he said, 
was with Mr. Choate's consent. He also appointed the 
Hon. Alton B. Parker as a member of that Committee. 

Upon recommendation of Mr. Stetson, Judge A. T. 
Clearwater was also added to the Committee. 



November 20, 1908 637 

Inzvood Hill Park Committee Report. 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman of the Inwood Park Com- 
mittee called attention to the fact that preliminary to the 
first interview with the Mayor a careful investigation and 
inquiry had been made by a competent real estate broker 
which demonstrated that a fair price for the property 
sought to be acquired would be something less than 
$2,000,000; that this was satisfactory for two reasons, 
first, because the amount was such as the City authorities 
would be more likely to consider, and, next, because it 
protected against the scandal which is liable to happen 
when the City seeks to acquire property for a public use. 
Mr. Parsons said that later on there had been negotia- 
tions, the outcome of which were claims by some of the 
property owners on a basis of almost twice that which 
had been assumed. He said that some of the owners 
had made an offer to sell at a price which corresponded 
substantially with the figures originally submitted to the 
Mayor ; but that others were claiming prices almost twice 
as large. He said that it was to be regretted that this 
had happened for the reason that the delay had tarried 
the situation along until the embarrassment coming from 
the present financial situation of the City ; that he had 
endeavored to impress upon the property owners that 
any attempt to obtain abnormal prices meant the possible 
defeat of the project altogether; that recently he had 
received a letter, and upon coming to the meeting this 
afternoon there had been put in his hands another letter 
to the effect that there might be a compromise between the 
Committee's figures and the amounts asked by property 
owners. Mr. Parsons said that he would call his Committee 
together during the coming week for such further action as 
seemed to be suitable. 

Mr. Parsons' report was followed by an informal dis- 
cussion, participitated in by Mr. Seligman and others. 

Construction of the Clermont. 
Admiral Coghlan, Chairman of the Committee on Naval 
Parade reported letters dated October 27, 1908, and No- 



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vember 8, 1908, received from Commander Edward McC. 
Peters of Hoboken, N. J., tendering the services of the 
Naval Reserve of New Jersey in manning the Half Moon 
and Clermont. 

The letters were referred to the Half Moon Committee 
and the Clermont Committee. 

Mr. Sackett asked Admiral Coghlan if the Maritime As- 
sociation of New York had formally undertaken to build 
the Clermont. 

Admiral Coghlan replied in the affirmative. He said that 
it would require about three months for the construction. 

Secretarial Assistant. 
Mr. Sackett reported that in accordance with authority 
previously given, he expected to be able to secure in a few 
days a competent secretarial assistant at a salary not ex- 
ceeding $2,500 a year. The person whom he had in view 
was a college graduate, now connected with one of the 
leading New York newspapers, and so far as he could 
learn, was excellently qualified for the position. 

Ci7'il Service Exemption. 
Mr. Sackett moved that the Secretary be authorized to 
make the necessary application to the State Civil Service 
Board for the exemption, from civil service examination, 
of the persons authorized by the Trustees to be employed 
by the Commission. Carried. 

Connnunications Referred. 

Communications were referred to various committees as 
follows : 

From Mr. Seth Thayer Stewart of 856 Quincy street, 
Brooklyn, dated October 22, requesting that the Parks 
and Playgrounds Association of New York be appointed a 
Committee on children's festivals. To Children's Festivals 
Committee. 

From Mrs. Robert Abbe, President of the City Plistory 
Club of New York, dated October 30 and November 17, 
requesting that the City History Club be given a place in 
the Historical Pageant or some other recognition. To 
Historical Pageant Committee. 



November 20, 1908 639 

From Miss C. E. Mason of Tarrytown, dated November 
7, renewing request for approval of the proposed historical 
pageant at Tarrytown. To Local Celebrations Committee. 

From Mr. Edward G. Unitt of New York, making sug- 
gestions as to the illumination of the land and water 
parades. To the Committees on Naval Parade and Carnival 
Parade. 

From Mr. Edgar Mayhew Bacon of Tarrytown, author, 
dated November 12, applying for position of historical 
agent and lecturer of the Commission. To Historical 
Committee. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Minutes of 

Trustees' Meetinor 



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November 24, 1908. 

The thirty-first meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was called, pursuant to the 
by-laws, to be held at headquarters in the Tribune Build- 
ing, No. 154 Nassau street. New York City, on Wednesday, 
November 24, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

There being no quorum present, on account of the date 
of the meeting falling on the day before Thanksgiving Day, 
no business was transacted, and the meeting adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



641 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

November 30, 1908. 

The thirty-second meeting of the Trustees of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held pursuant to 
resolution of November 20, in the Council Chamber of the 
City Hall, New York, on Monday, November 30, 1908, 
at I. 30 P. M. 

Roll Call. 

Present : Mr. Herman Ridder, Acting President, presid- 
ing; and Hon. James K. Apgar, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. 
William Berri, Mr. George V. Brower, Mr. Henry W. 
Cannon, Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. 
Theodore Fitch, Hon. Charles H. Gaus, Mr. Henry E. 
Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, 
Mr. Samuel V. Hofifman, Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. August 
F. Jaccaci, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Mr. William J. McKay, Com- 
mander Jacob W. Miller, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. Samuel 
Parsons, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. 
Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Hon. 
Nathan A. Warren and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Absentees Excused. 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. James M. 
Beck, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Gen. Horatio C. King, 
Hon. Seth Low, Hon. William McCarroU, Hon. Elias P. 
Mann, Rear Admiral George W. Melville, U. S. N., Mr. 
Frank D. Millett, Hon. George W. Perkins, Mr. Thomas 
R. Proctor, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, and Lieutenant Com- 
mander Aaron Vanderbilt, and they were excused. 



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List of Committees Submitted. 

In accordance with the suggestion made at the meeting 
of the Trustees on November 20, the Secretary, in behalf 
of the Acting President, laid before the meeting the list of 
Comimittees made up by the Acting President for presenta- 
tion to the meeting of the Commission at 2. p. m. He said 
that the Acting President desired to make one change from 
the printed list handed to the Trustees, namely, to separate 
the reception and hospitality functions assigned in the list 
to one committee and to give to a special committee the 
duties of providing hospitality for the guests of the 
Commission. 

The Acting President said that it was probable, that in 
the haste of preparation, some names might have been 
omitted and he desired to supply such omissions and make 
such additions as might make the committees more effective. 
He then asked the Trustees for suggestions. 

A few suggestions were made informally and embodied 
by the Acting President in the list submitted to the Commis- 
sion later. 

Additional Assistants to the Secretary Authorized. 
The Secretary asked authority to engage Mr. George N. 
Moran and Mr. David T. Wells as additional assistants to 
the Secretary at salaries not exceeding the rate of $3,500 
per annum for the former and not exceeding the rate of 
$2,500 per annum for the latter. He said that when he 
reported on this subject at the meeting of November 20, he 
had one of these gentlemen in mind. Since that time the 
Acting President and the Secretary had had interviews with 
the other gentleman and they were convinced that both 
were exceptionally qualified for the duties contemplated and 
that both were needed immediately. Pie therefore moved 
that he be authorized to engage them, such engagements to 
continue at the pleasure of the Board. The motion was 
carried. 

Additional Room Authorized. 

The Secretary also said that it was necessary to have 
additional room for the workinsf staff of the Commission. 



November 30, 1908 643 

The rent of room 805 in the Tribune Building is paid for 
by the City. The adjacent office, 806, and equipment are 
placed at the disposal of the Commission by Mr. Hall with- 
out charge. The next room, 807, can be obtained for an 
annual rental of $400 or less. He therefore moved that 
he be authorized to engage room 807 at a rental not ex- 
ceeding that figure, with the understanding that the City is 
to pay for it if it can so be arranged, otherwise the Com- 
mission is to pay for it. The motion was carried. 
The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



644 

Minutes of 

The Commission 

November 30 1908 

The fourth meeting of the entire Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission was held, pursuant to special call, in the 
Council Chamber of the City Hall, New York, on Monday, 
November 30, 1908, at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call. 
Present: Mr. Herman Ridder, Acting President, presid- 
ing; and Mr. Abraham Abraham, Mr. Alphonse H. Alker, 
Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. James K. Apgar, Constructor 
William J. Baxter, U. S. N., Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. 
William Berri, Mr. E. W. Bloomingdale, Mr. Herbert L. 
Bridgman, Mr. George V. Brower, Dr. E. Parmly Brown, 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce, Mr. Henry W. Cannon, Hon. A. T. 
Clearwater. Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Mr. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank, Mr. Frederick B. Dalzell, Capt. 
Charles A. DuBois, Hon. Charles A. Elliott, Mr. Morris P. 
Ferris, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Hon. Charles H. Gaus, Hon. 
Theodore P. Gilman, Capt. Richard Henry Greene, Mr. 
Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Benja- 
min F. Hamilton, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel V. 
Hoffman, Mr. James P. Holland, Mr. William Homan, 
Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Dr. George F. 
Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. Charles W. Lefler, Dr. 
Henry M. Leipziger, Mr. Clarence E. Leonard, Mr. Wilham 
J. McKay, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, Commander Jacob W. 
Miller, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Nathan New- 
man, Mr. Percey B. O'Sullivan, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. 
John E. Parsons, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Mr. Samuel H. 
Parsons, Mr. Bayard L. Peck, Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Mr. 
Louis T. Romaine, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Charles A. 
Schieren, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Louis Seligsberg, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. John J. Sinclair, Mr. 



November 30, 1908 645 

Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. George R. Sutherland, Dr. 
Irving Townsend, Mr. J. Leonard Varick, Hon. Nathan A. 
Warren and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Dr. H. Bavinck, professor in the Free University of 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a member of the Com- 
mittee of Hollanders who are building the replica of the 
Half Moon, was present by invitation. 

Excused for Absence. 
Regrets for absence were received from Mr. R, B. Ald- 
crofft, Jr., Dr. George C. Batcheller, Hon. James M. Beck, 
Hon. James H. Callanan, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Dr. 
Thomas Addis Emmet, Hon. James F. Fitzgerald, Hon. 
Lyman C. French, Hon. C. W. Higley, Mr. Colgate Hoyt, 
Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Elias P. Mann, 
Hon. William McCarroll, Mr. Donald McDonald, Rear 
Admiral George W. Melville, U. S. N., Mr. Frank D. Mil- 
let, Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hon. George W. Perkins, 
Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, Col. William Cary Sanger and 
Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, and they were excused. 

Deaths of Members Announced. 

The Acting President said that it was his sad duty to 
announce the death of the following named members of the 
Commission : 

Gen. John H. Ketcham of Dover Plains, who died No- 
vember 2, 1906; Mr. Edward Wells, Jr., of New York, who 
died July 19, 1908; Hon. Joseph H. Senner of New York, 
who died September 28, 1908; Mr. George Wilson of New 
York, who died October 8, 1908; Hon. Hugh Kelly of New 
York, who died October 30, 1908; and Mr. E. V. Skinner 
of New York, who died November 7, 1908. 

The Secretary was requested to make a proper entry in 
the minutes of the Commission. 

Appointments by Mayor McClellan. 
The Secretary read a letter dated November 25, 1908, 
from the Executive Secretary of his Honor the Mayor of 
New York, appointing the following named gentlemen as 



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members of the Commission upon the recommendation of 
the Trustees (see pp. 620-621 ) ; Mr. Cleveland H. Dodg'e, 
James Douglas, LL. D., Commander William B. Franklin, 
late lieutenant, U. S. N., Lieutenant Charles E. Heitman, 
late U. S. N., Mr. John J. McKelvey, Captain Aaron Ward, 
U. S. N., and Major General Leonard A. Wood, U. S. A. 

The Secretary was directed to notify the gentlemen of 
their appointment. 

Committees Announced. 

The Acting President then stated that the special purpose 
of the present meeting was to announce a full set of work- 
ing committees to carry out the plans for the celebration 
next year. (See report of Acting President to the Trus- 
tees on pp. 622-625.) Hitherto, the task of mapping;- out the 
celebration had been performed by the Trustees. They had 
received suggestions from members of the Commission and 
from outside sources, and had formulated what they be- 
lieved to be a suitable and workable plan. It now remained 
to carry that plan into execution, and the time had arrived 
for every member of the Commission to assume his share 
of responsibility and do his share of work. He had there- 
fore assigned the members to the committees named in the 
printed list placed in their hands. The list doubtless con- 
tained imperfections, and later in the meeting he would be 
happy to receive suggestions from any of the members. 

Mr John E. Parsons Speaks of Nezv York City's 
Opportunity. 

The Acting President then asked Mr. John E. Parsons if 
he would address the meeting on the significance of the ap- 
proaching celebration. 

Mr. Parsons spoke substantially as follows : 
So far as this request involves qviestions of details, I am 
not sufficiently well posted to speak upon the subject. So 
far as the general plan is concerned, however, I know that 
our work assumes a celebration in the City of New York 
and along the length of the Hudson river. The plan in- 
cludes invitations to foreign nations to be represented by 



November 30, 1908 647 

their delegates. It is hoped and beheved that they will re- 
spond by sending distinguished representatives and naval 
vessels, and that this, as well as the other features of the 
celebration with which you are familiar, will meet with 
success. But to attain this success, great individual effort 
is needed. This is not a case where the duties of the com- 
mittees are to be discharged by their chairman. Every 
individual of every committee must do his share of work 
and get his share of honor. 

Within the last month I have seen two very great cities 
of the world — Paris and London. When I walked about 
the streets and parks of Paris, I thought of New York. 
When I visited the parks and public places of London, I 
thought of New York. In some respects we cannot com- 
pete with those old cities which have 2,000 years of history 
behind them ; but we have much of which to be proud. It 
is sometimes said of us by foreigners that we are a vain- 
glorious people. When I hear this my answer is, — and I 
find it difficult to satisfy them that it is so, — ^that we are 
conspicuously modest; but that we have so much of which 
to boast that we cannot help referring to it. The real 
trouble is that with the ocean between they cannot realize 
what we have become. 

Are we willing, now, by our labors on this Commission, 
to make our contribution to such a result as that New York, 
which is recognized to be large and rich and to have great 
institutions, shall have nothing on which we need to turn 
our backs or of which to be ashamed? I wish that the 
members of this Commission would take a map of New 
York and recall what the City to-day is ; what the Hudson 
River, the East River, Manhattan Island, the Bay, and their 
adjacent boroughs are. We sometimes forget we have a 
population of 4,000,000. London has a population of 
6,000,000. It has only a few islands from which to draw. 
We have the whole world. What in the future is the City 
to be? 

In the Hudson-Fulton celebration for which we are ar- 
ranging, we have a notable opportunity for doing something 
of permanent value, something of which we can boast and 



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to which we can point with pride. But every detail of our 
work must be safeguarded and every committee and every 
member must work. I speak for one committee which I 
know will do its share. 

Admiral Coghlan Speaks of the Half Moon and Clermont. 
Rear Admiral Coghlan, at the request of the Acting 
President, spoke of the preparations for building the fac- 
similes of the Half Moon and Clermont. He said, in 
substance : 

I am chairman of the Naval Parade Committee which 
has been entrusted, among other responsibilities, with the 
reproduction of the vessel in which Henry Hudson entered 
our river in 1609 and the vessel in which Robert Fulton 
first navigated the river by steam in 1807. 

We have had great success with the Half Moon and in 
communicating with the government and people of Holland 
in regard to building the reproduction. At the very courte- 
ous request of Vice Admiral Roell of the Royal Dutch Navy, 
retired, and aide-de-camp to Her Majesty the Queen of the 
Netherlands, we made a critical study and analysis of every 
available authority concerning the appearance of the Half 
Moon and when we sent the results of our research to 
him (see pages 500-509) we were pleased to find that they 
coincided with the researches made by the committee of 
distinguished citizens of Holland who have generously under- 
taken to build the Plalf Moon and present her to this 
commission.* We had no trouble to speak of in getting the 
data about the Half Moon and we are sure of having a 
faithful reproduction. 

We had more trouble with the Clermont, however. As 
has been said before, there were no contemporary pictures 
of Fulton's vessel and she was not one of a type. She was 
a pioneer, and we had hard work to find out just what she 
was like. There is a plenty of people who have information 
which they think applies to the Clermont, but it belongs 
to Fulton's second or remodeled boat. The second boat 
differed in many particulars from the first. We decided to 



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have the first — the more primitive, the better. There was 
not so much care bestow^ed on the first vessel, as it did not 
have so many conveniences as the second. We are receiv- 
ing a great many suggestions nowadays, but they all refer 
to the second boat. As this celebration is to commemorate 
the beginning of steam navigation, we are going to repro- 
duce the outward appearance of the first, as nearly as 
possible. 

It was through our fellow Commissioner Mr. S. V. Hoff- 
man, President of the New York Historical Society, that 
we secured our first definite data about the Clermont. It 
was found in a letter written by Fulton to Robert R. 
Livingston on November 20, 1807, in which he mentions 
the width of his original boat. The letter in full is as 
follows :* 

Washington November the 20th 1807 
Dear Sir 

I have received your letter of the 12th inst. after 
all accidents and delays our boat has cleared 5 per cent on 
the capital expended and as the people are not discouraged 
but contmue to go in her at all risques, and even increase 
m numbers I think with you that one which should be 
complete would produce us from 8 to 10,000 dollars a year 
or perhaps more and that another boat which will cost 
15,000 dollars will also produce us 10,000 dollars a year 
therefore as this is the only method which I know of gain- 
ing 50 or 75 per cent I am on my part determined not to 
dispose of any portion of my Interest on the North river 
but I will sell so much of my funds as will pay my part of 
rendering this boat complete and for establishing another 
so that one will depart from Albany and one from New 
York every other day and carry all the passengers. It is 
now necessary to consider how to put our first boat in a 
complete state for 8 or 10 years — and when I reflect that 
the present one is so weak that she must have additional 
knees and timbers, new side timbers deck beams and deck, 
new windows and cabins altered, that she perhaps must be 
sheathed, her boiler taken out and a new one put in her 
axels forged and Iron work strengthened with all this 
work the saving of the present hull is of little consequence 

* Admiral Coghlan in his remarks quoted briefly from the letter 
In view of Its historical importance, however, it is here inserted 
in full. 



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particularly as many of her Knees Bolts timbers and planks 
could enter into the construction of a new boat, my present 
opinion therefore is that we should build a new hull her 
knees and floor timbers to be of oak her bottom planks of 
2 Inch oak her side plank two Inch oak for 3 feet high 
She to be 16 feet wide 150 feet long this will make her 
near twice as Stiff as at present and enable us to carry a 
much greater quantity of sail, the 4 feet additional width 
will require 1146 lbs additional purchase at the engine 
moving 2 feet a second or 15 double strokes a minuet this 
will be gained by raising the steam 5 lb to the inch as 24 
Inches the diameter of the cylinder gives 570 round Inches 
at 3 lb to the inch = 1710 lb purchase gained to accomplish 
this with a good boiler and a commodious boat running our 
present speed, of a voyage in 30 hours I think better and 
more productive to us than to gain one mile on the present 
boat. 

The new boat Cabins and all complete including our 

materials will cost perhaps 2000 $ 

Boiler 800 

Iron work in the best manner and mens wages 
during the winter 1200 



4,000 

To meet this I find that our copper boiler weighs 
3930 lb which at 40 cents all the price paid by 
government will produce I570' 

Profits of this year 1000 



2570 



So that we shall have to provide about 1,500$ added to 
.3,000 Bills against us in the Bank with this arrangement 
we shall have one Boat in complete play producing about 
10,000 dollars a year to enable us to proceed with the 
second to come out in the spring of 1809, and then our 
receipts will be about 20,000 dollars a year. 

Please to think of this and if you like it to try to con- 
tract with the carpenter at Hudson for the hull and let him 
immediately prepare his timbers, knees and planks — 

She should be almost wall sided if 16 feet at bottom she 
need not be more than 18 on deck Streight Sides will be 
strong it fits the mill work and prevents motion in the 
waves — thus 



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It is now time to lay her up for the winter nothing should 
be risqued from bad weather — the gain will be triffling the 
risque great. 

I cannot be with you before the first week of January 
Compliments to all friends write me again 

"Yours truly 



(^ ^^c,^/e^tz:> 




Do not risque the engine in the winds 
and Waves of this Season. 

From this letter as a starting point and after a critical 
analysis of every available authority, we have drawn our 
final plans which have been adopted by the Trustees ; and 
the Maritime Exchange of New York has generously under- 
taken to build the Clermont for the Commission.* 



* The accompanying illustration of the Half Moon is redrawn 
from a picture sent by Admiral Roell, and gives the de- 
sign of the vessel as it is now being built in Holland. There 
have been many fanciful attempts in modern histories to depict 
Hudson's little ship (or yacht, as it was called), but this is the 
first picture that can be pronounced technically accurate, with 
respect to the number and character of the masts, sails and rigging. 
Her dimensions are : Length between perpendiculars, 6,3 feet ; 
length over all, 80 feet ; breadth, 18 feet, 2 inches ; depth, 10 feei, 
9 inches; draft, 7 feet, 6 inches; old Amsterdam measures. The 
old x\msterdam foot was 0.284 metres long. 



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Table of Equivalents. 

I meter = 39.37 English inches 

I Old Amsterdam foot = 0.284 meters 

I Old Amsterdam foot = 11.18108 English inches 

I Old Amsterdam inch* = i. 01 646 English inch 

* The Amsterdam foot is divided into 11, not 12, inches. 

Dimensions of Half Moon Converted into English Feet. 

Old Amsterdam English 

Length over all 80 feet • = 74-54 feet 

Length between perpendiculars 63 feet — 58.70 feet 

Breadth 18 feet 2 inches = 16.94 feet 

Depth 10 feet 9 inches = 10.08 feet 

Draft 7 feet 6 inches = 7-03 feet 




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Prof. Baviiick Speaks of Holland's Interest. 

The Acting President then introduced Dr. H. Bavinck, 
a professor of the Free University of Amsterdam and a 
member of the Committee of Hollanders who have the 
building of the Half Moon hi charge, who is in this country 
for the purpose of lecturing at Princeton University and 
elsewhere. 

Dr. Bavinck said that he was very glad to attend this 
meeting and to assure the Com^mission of the most cordial 
and deep sympathy of his fellow countrymen for the 
Hudson-Fulton celebration. Referring to Mr. Parsons' 
comparison of European and American cities, he said : In 
our country we feel very deeply the difference between 
Europe and America. One diiiference is that Holland and 
Europe generally have a past, while America is very young, 
historically speaking. In America, as Prof. Stanley Hall 
says, all is being, not become. In our country, all is com- 
pleted. In a certain sense, the past and the present meet 
in our country, and I feel that there is a kind of marriage 
in this celebration in New York, and we are very glad that 
we are to have a part in it. We are proud that our country, 
small as it is, has had such a large part in the history of 
New York. I thank you very much for the privilege of 
being here and addressing you. 

The Acting President, on behalf of the Commiission, 
thanked Dr. Bavinck for his message of sympathy and for 
his very interesting remarks, and cordially reciprocated the 
sentiments which he had uttered. 

Mr. Stetson Speaks of the State-zvide Significance of the 
Celebration. 

Mr. Stetson, in response to the Acting President's re- 
quest, spoke substantially as follows : 

Mr. Parsons has given us an interesting " tale of two 
cities " in the continent of Europe. I am now affected by 
two cities of comparative youth in the continent of North 
America — Quebec and Philadelphia. These two cities 
have celebrated important events — one, the 300th anni- 
versary of its foundation ; the other, the 225th anniversary 
of the granting of its charter of liberties. Each city 



November 30, 1908 655 

acquitted itself with a sense of duty and with a spirit of 
beauty which may serve as a stimulus to the people of 
New York — and when I say "of New York," I mean not 
the City alone, but the whole State, for our celebration con- 
cerns most of all this Empire State. 

The Hudson river! Was there ever a river which, within 
the limits of a small ternitory, self-governed but populous, 
did so much for its people as the Hudson river? The Nile 
passes through an immense country and has nourished the 
children of its banks for centuries. The Ganges has stim- 
ulated the reverence of millions for countless generations. 
Other rivers have had reciprocal relations that have com- 
manded from the world perhaps more general observation 
than the Hudson, but for our own commonwealth, united 
by the Hudson river from New York Bay to Lake Erie 
and from New York Bay to Lake Champlain, no river 
could appeal — if it had personification and voice — to 
those who have been sustained by it as the Hudson river 
can appeal. With its tributaries coming out of 20 counties 
and with its contributaries — the Erie and other canals — 
from almost all the other counties, it is a glorious possession 
for this State. 

Besides, by a happy coincidence of date and place, here, 
almost precisely 200 years after the discovery of the river, 
was developed that which has made all rivers valuable — 
steam navigation. What more happy juxtaposition could 
there be than the commemoration at the same time of the 
discovery of the river and the development of its highest 
use to man ! 

And what would the State have been without the canals? 
I saw an impressive statement on this subject in a recent 
editorial in the New York Sun. In 1826, 19,000 vessels 
coming out of the canals passed down the Hudson river. 
In a few years after the canal was opened, the cost of 
transporting a ton of freight from Buffalo to Albany fell 
from $88 to $5.98. What do we not owe to the Hudson 
river and its extension, the Erie Canal ! 

Now I emphasize the importance to the State of New 
York of this network of water ways of which the Hudson 



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river is the chief, because properly to celebrate the historic 
events connected with them we must go to the Legislature 
for more money. We asked the last Legislature for 
$300,000 for use below Newburgh and $150,000 more for 
use at and above Newburgh. In this request we were 
grandly supported by the Mayors of the upper Hudson. 
In aquatic preparations, log-rolling of this description is 
appropriate. But we received for the lower Hudson only 
$150,000, and for the celebration above Newburgh nothing 
at all. This was not fair and I pledged our friends from 
up the river my support in an effort to get their $150,000, 
and it is proper that we should have $150,000 more for 
New York City. 

Now, why was this done? Even more generous appro- 
priations than we asked have been made by our Legislature 
for celebrations in other places — in Chicago, St. Louis, 
Portland, and Jamestown. We willingly make appropri- 
ations for these celebrations elsewhere ; why not for our 
own people? 

The criticism has been made that this is a New York 
City celebration. That is not so; but what if it were? We 
ask for $450,000 — $300,000 for use at New York and 
below Newburgh and $150,000 for use above Newburgh. 
It is generally conceded that New York City pays at least 
60;^ of the taxes of the State. 

Mr. Ridder here interrupted Mr. Stetson to say 88/1^. 

Mr. Stetson continued : Our President says 88;?^, but I 
will say 60'^ to be on the safe side. Now 60;^ of $450,000 
is $270,000 and we ask only $300,000. So New York City 
itself would pay for all it gets but $30,000 of its part of the 
combined appropriation, or more than all upon Mr. Ridder's 
estimate. 

But is this the spirit in which to consider this event of 
State importance ? The question is : how can we contribute 
most to the dignity of the State of New York? We can 
do it by beginning at the Metropolis of the State and then 
proceed to Albany, the Capital of the State, — the two 
greatest and oldest Cities of the Hudson, — and ask the 
Mayor and the Governor for their support. We do not 



November 30, 1908 657 

want to be considered a local commission. This is not a 
local affair and the Commission is not local. It comprises 
the Mayors of every City in the State and the President 
of every village along the Hudson. The members from 
New York City at any time can be out-voted by the out- 
of-town members. We appeal to all the members through- 
out the State to go to their Senators and Members of 
Assembly and ask them to give us a full appropriation 
and we hope that New York City will do its share. We 
want to invite the representative navies of the world to 
come here, and very properly the President of the United 
States hesitates to extend the invitation without assurance 
that our Celebration is assured of adequate financial pro- 
vision. In Quebec they spent nearly half a million dollars. 
In Philadelphia they spent the same, and the governments 
gave abundantly. We want half a million for our cele- 
bration. 

The days ought to be proclaimed legal holidays so that 
the people can give themselves up to the great commemo- 
ration. 

Mr. Stetson then gave a resume of the plan of the cele- 
bration as outlined in the plan and scope report on pages 
459-467 of the minutes. With reference to the art ex- 
hibition he said : 

One of the greatest opportunities ever afforded in this 
country for the enjoyment and study of art, particularly 
Dutch art, will be presented by the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art. The Museum will set apart its new wing for a 
Hudson-Fulton loan exhibition which will be absolutely free 
to all, and for educational purposes will be made as effective 
as possibe by labels and by catalogues, each giving the sub- 
ject and the name of the painter, so that he who runs 
■may read. The bulk of the expense of this great exhibition 
will be borne by the Museum. 

In speaking of the significance of the fac-similes of the 
Half Moon and the Clermont, Mr. Stetson made a graceful 
allusion to Dr. Bavinck, and added : And again we see 
how our mother country is affected when the people of 



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Holland prepare and present to us this replica of the Half 
Moon without expense. 

In concluding, Mr. Stetson said : I am enthusiastic about 
this celebration. I was born in New York and my parents 
were born in New York; and I feel somewhat as Judge 
Clearwater feels when he says he has been going to church 
in the old historic city of Kingston for 250 years. I am 
enthusiastic because it is a New York City anniversary ; 
but I am more enthusiastic because it is a New York State 
affair. Should this celebration prove a failure, it would 
prove also a mortification to the whole State ; but it will 
not fail, and it will be an occasion, not for shame, but 
for gratification, that the people of this Empire State at 
least have equalled the Metropolis of the Keystone State 
and the lower Laurentian province, in the illustration and 
magnification of the origins of their greatness. 

Mr. Secretary Sezvard Speaks of the JVorld-lVide 
Significance of the Celebration. 

The Acting President asked the Hon. Frederick W. 
Seward, Chaimian of the Plan and Scope Committee, if 
he would speak. 

Mr. Seward said in substance : 

The plan of the celebration was inauguratefj several 
months ago and has since been enlarged anfl perfected, 
thanks to the suggestions of various members. You have 
heard from Mr. Stetson the leading features of the pro- 
gramme for next year. Each day, however, covers a multi- 
tude of details. I am glad that our Acting President has 
risen to the emergency by appointing committees to attend 
to all the minutiae of our preparations. We began our 
work with a Commission of only about a hundred members, 
half appointed by the Governor and half by the Mayor. 
As our plans developed, more and more members were 
found to be necessary until now we have 360. Tlie Acting 
President has very properly come to the conclusion that no 
one is to be merely an ornamental figure-head. There is 
no detail in our plans that is not now covered by some 



November 30, 1908 659 

committee, and there is no member who is not on some 
committee, and charged with responsibihty for its success. 

We are to celebrate two events — not merely events in 
the history of New York, but events in the history of the 
world — the discovery by that little craft of Henry Hud- 
son's of our river, one of the chief arteries of the world; 
and that equally important voyage of the Clermont 
which opened the way for steam navigation throughout 
the world. The Half Moon and the Clermont are going 
up and down the river again, but instead of going through 
the unfrequented wilds of three, centuries ago, they will 
pass between densely populated cities and will be accom- 
panied by the fleets of nations and the argosies of the 
world. Philadelphia and Quebec had interesting celebra- 
tions; but here, we celebrate more than the history of a 
city — we commemorate events important to the state and 
the world. The naval parade alone will be historic. 

And now that we all have our tasks assigned to us, I 
trust that we will apply ourselves to them and perform 
them with credit to ourselves and to the State and City 
which we officially represent. 

Dr. Kiinz Speaks of the Art Exhibit. 

In response to the Acting President's request. Dr. Kunz, 
from the Committee on Art and Historical Exhibits, spoke 
of the proposed art exhibit. Following is the substance 
of his remarks : 

When Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo and St. Louis 
decided on their great expositions, art and history were 
important considerations. In each case, a large sum of 
money was necessary for the erection of structures in which 
to place the exhibits. These structures were of staff and 
inflammable materials. The result was that no one knew 
but what the valuable works stored therein one day might 
cease to exist the next. The question therefore occurred 
to us : Why should we put up dangerous buildings, at great 
expense, for our art and historical exhibits, when we have 
fire-proof museums, carefully policed, and accessible to a 



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greater number of people than those of any other exhibition 
in this coinitry? 

This Committee therefore arranged with the MetropoHtan 
Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, 
the New York Historical Society, the American Geo- 
graphical Society, the American Numismatic Society, the 
Hispanic Museum, and the New York Genealogical and 
Biographical Society to hold appropriate exhibitions in their 
institutions. In the Metropolitan Museum there will be 
gathered together a great collection of Dutch art, and the 
works of the best painters of England — Reynolds, Gains- 
borough, etc. — and the products of our own colonial artists. 
The museum possesses the greatest collection of colonial 
furniture that there is, and it is believed that it can secure 
a great loan collection of colonial silver. The exhibition 
at the museum will be arranged by its own staff and thus 
the expenses will be kept low. It will issue a catalogue 
for each principal group of exhibits, which will sell at lO 
cents a copy. The sales of these will operate on the endless 
chain principle, — the sales of one edition providing means 
for printing another. 

We also realize that in this state there are many patriotic 
societies all of which, we feel, will cooperate in making 
such exhibitions. And there are descendants of Robert 
Fulton among us who are willing to lend their aid. One 
of his descendants to-day has offered to gather relics identi- 
fied with his career. 

The Secretary Speaks of the JVork of the Committees. 

The Secretary, at the Acting President's request, spoke 
concerning the work of the committees substantially as 
follows : 

In speaking of the work of the committees, I should like 
to add one word as to the State character of this Com- 
mission. When, at the invitation of the late Hon. Robert 
B. Roosevelt, a company of gentlemen met at his house in 
February, 1905, to consider the project of this celebration, 
it was recognized at that time and has always been borne 
in mind that this was to be a state celebration. When the 



November 30, 1908 661 

Commission was first named, the general character of the 
commemoration was indicated by the Governor appointing 
the members residing outside of the New York City Hmits, 
while the Mayor appointed those residing within. There 
never was a commission of higher character than those 
who were appointed and who have done this work. The 
first meetings were held in the Governor's Room of this 
City Hall. At those meetings gentlemen were present from 
Buffalo, Syracuse, and other cities of the State. 

When the charter was given to the Commission, the work 
devolved upon the Board of Trustees, and they have car- 
ried it on so far. With great care and at no small labor, 
they have formulated a plan, and the committees now 
named are appointed with special reference to carrying out 
the work. This work must be begun at once. In the ten 
months which intervene between the present time and the 
celebration, we have not too much time for preparation. 
We should take hold of our labors with the determination 
that no such situation should arise in connection with our 
celebration as has arisen in connection with some notable 
celebrations elsewhere. We should not be behind time. 

Each committee should meet and take up the details of 
its duties, and particularly it must make an estimate of 
its financial needs and determine what funds are requisite. 
It is important for each committee to meet before December 
15 and go over its particular part of the programme and 
report to the Trustees what is needed before the committee 
of which Mr. Stetson is chairman goes to Albany to lay 
our request for an appropriation before the Legislature. 
I think it will be found that $300,000 will be inadequate. 
But the attention of each chairman is called to the necessity 
of assembling his committee and learning the facts of the 
situation, so that he can report intelligently to the Trustees 
at their December meeting. 

Mr. Ridder Invites Suggestions Concerning the Committees. 

The Acting President said that the committees as named 

in the printed pamphlet submitted to the members were 

subject to such changes as experience might dictate. He 



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therefore invited from the floor any suggestions that might 
occur to those present. He said he wanted the advice of all 
the members. The main idea of the Commission was that 
there was no favored class. This celebration is to be an 
education for our citizens from the other side as well as 
for our native born. Everything is to be open, even to 
the poorest. 

Mayor Gaits Speaks of the Claims of tlie Upper Hudson. 

Comptroller-elect Gaus, Mayor of Albany, said that he 
had come to this meeting to be enlightened. This was the 
third time he had attended. He had observed the relative 
number in attendance on each occasion of the gentlemen 
named in the original charter. He appreciated fully what 
Mr. Stetson had said about the importance of this cele- 
bration to the whole state and particularly to the upper 
part of the Hudson river. He did not think it was right 
to cut out one section of the State and say that it was 
the best. Albany was settled 286 years ago, and he asked 
why Albany, and Hudson and other old cities up the river 
should not have full recognition. He believed that the 
State would appropriate $500,000. With a population of 
between seven and eight millions, the State could afford to 
appropriate that amount. He would say at this meeting 
what he would say as Comptroller of the State — that 
Albany, Troy, Hudson, Poughkeepsie, Catskill, Kingston 
and all other sister cities and villages were part of the 
State of New York and should have their part in the 
approaching commemoration. He thought that New York 
would actually need 80;^ of the funds, but the people up 
the river should be properly recognized. As to the objects 
upon which the money was to be spent, he did not believe 
in blowing it up in fireworks and parades. He advocated 
a permanent monument on the river front of every city. 
At Hudson there should be a bronze statue of Henry Hud- 
son. At Albany there should be a bronze statue of Peter 
Schuyler. And there should be other appropriate statues 
at other places. We must all join together and not cut a 
dividing line at Newburgh. We must all work in harmony. 



November 30, 1908 663 

Each city should have its pro rata of money. They all 
wanted to take part in the celebration, no matter how small 
that part was. They all wanted to be in it. 

President Elliott Speaks in Behalf of the Upper Hudson. 

Mr. Elliott, President of the Village of Catskill, followed 
Mayor Gaus in a similar vein. He said that his fellow- 
citizens along the upper river thought that they would have 
a stop-over at places above Newburgh, and in the bill which 
is to be introduced in the Legislature they would like to 
have provision made so that their towns would receive a 
pro rata. Their local feelings were such that they felt that 
they should be considered in the bill. 

Atteiitioi Called to Provision for Upper Hudson 
Observances. 

The Acting President and the Secretary called Mr. 
Elliott's attention to the appointment of Committees on 
North Hudson, Local Celebrations and Old Home Week 
which were designed to give the communities of the upper 
Hudson ample opportunity to participate ; and also to the 
provision in the original report of the Plan and Scope 
Committee, presented in June, 1906, which contemplated 
such participation. 

Committees Announced. 

The Acting President then invited further suggestions 
concerning the Committees, and there being none, he an- 
nounced their appointment as printed at the end of this 
report. 

Letter from the Colonial Dames. 

The Secretary read the following letter from the Society 
of Colonial Dames of America, of which Mrs. Edward 
King is President. The letter is signed by Mrs. Henry 
P. Loomis of 58 East 34th street, Mrs. Ira Davenport of 



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31 East 39th street, and Mrs. Arthur T. Sutcliffe of 171 
Lexington avenue, the latter a descendant of Robert Fulton. 

New York, November 30, 1908. 
To the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee. 

Dear Sirs. — The Colonial Dames of America appreciating 
the historical interest and importance of the proposed cele- 
bration during September, 1909, are desirous of taking such 
co-operative part in the exercises as yr. Committee may 
deem appropriate to allot to us. 

We hope also to be able to contribute to some tangible 
& permanent memorial. 

We await with deep interest any suggestions on these 
two points which yr. Committee will offer. 
Hoping for a favorable & prompt reply, 
We reinain 

Very truly yours, 

Julia T. Loomis, 
Katharine S. Davenport, 
Alice Crary Sutcliffe. 

The letter was referred to the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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aftift 

%liHnn-3Fulton Ol^bbrattnn (EommtaBton 

Announced by Herman Ridder, Acting President, at a meeting of the Commission 
held in the City Hall, New York, Monday, November 30, 1908. 

On pages 680-686 following will be found an alphabetical 
list of all members of the Commission with their addresses. 

Committees marked with an asterisk (*) are substantially 
as before. Committees not so marked are new. The ad- 
dresses of chairiTien are New York City unless otherwise 
stated. 

'■Aero)iaiitics Committee. 

To consider the feasibility of, and, if practicable, arrange 
for an exhibition of flying machines. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman, 44 Wall Street. 
Hon. William Berri, Hon. Theodore P. Gilman, 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

"^Art and Historical Exhibits Committee. 

To invite and to co-operate in securing exhibits of paint- 
ings, prints, books, models, relics, plants and animals of 
the historic periods, etc., by the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the 
Hispano-American Museum, the American Numismatic 
Society, the New York Public Library, the New York 
Historical Society, the New York Botanical Garden, the 
New York Zoological Garden, the Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, Webb's Academy and Home for Ship- 
builders, the New York Yacht Club, and similar insti- 
tutions ; 

To co-operate with institutions in the publication of cata- 
logues of exhibits ; 

And to secure, if practicable, with the co-operation of the 
American Museum of Natural History, the establishment 
of a typical Indian Village at Inwood or on the site of 
Nipnichsen Castle at Spuyten Duyvil. 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Chairman, 23 Wall St., New York. 

c u /- U4. ( Hon. Robert W. DeForest, Chairman. 

Sub-Committee J ^-^ ^^^^^^ p^^^^^^ ^^j^^l^^^ 

A i T-'^u-u-^ 1 George A. Hearn, 
Art Exhibits. [ Edward Robinson. 

Sub-Committee ( Dr. George F. Kunz, Chairman. 
on Historical -j S. V. Hoffman, 
Exhibits. ( Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



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Aquatic Sports Committee. 

To arrange for aquatic sports on the Hudson River on 
Thursday, September 30, to be participated in by crews 
from the men-of-war, and by yacht, motor and rowing 
clubs. 

Commander Jacob W. Miller, Chairman, Pier 19, North River. 
A. H. Alker, Fred. B. Dalzell, 

E. C. Converse, Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

* Auditing Committee. 

To examine and approve bills for payment in concur- 
rence with the Board of Trustees ; 

And to audit the reports and accounts of the Treasurer. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Chairman, 280 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. William McCarroU. 

Badges, Flag and Poster Committee. 

Upon request of the Trustees or any Committee, to pro- 
vide metal or ribbon badges for the official use of members 
of the Commission ; 

To recommend a design for an official flag; 

And to recommend a design for an official Poster. 

(This Committee will, upon request, furnish to any Com- 
mittee desiring badges an estimate of cost of the same, so 
that the Committee desiring the badges may include the 
cost in the estimate of its expenses presented for the gen- 
eral budget.) 

August F. Jaccaci, Chairman, 7 West 43d Street. 
Herbert Adams, Frank D. Millet, 

Louis Annin Ames, Louis Stewart, 

Barr Ferree, C. Y. Turner. 

^Banquet Committee. 

To arrange for the Official Banquet in its various details. 
This includes the engagement of the banquet hall, the 
decoration of the hall, the engagement of the music, the 
selection of the bill of fare, the choice of speakers, the 
invitation of guests of honor, the printing, sale and dis- 
tribution of tickets, and the printing of the menu. 

(Concerning the issuing of invitations see note under 
Invitations Committee. Concerning printing, see note on 
Printing at end of list.) 

Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad Street, New York. 
Hon. William Berri, Henry W. Sackett, 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

E. S. A. De Lima, 



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^•Carnival and Historical Parades Committee. 

To arrange for the Carnival Parade on Saturday 
evening, October 2, and for an Historical Pageant if one 
be determined upon. These duties include : 

The selection of the places for the parades; 

The selection of subjects to be represented, subject to the 
approval of the Historical Committee; 

The designing and building of the floats; 

The selection of the participants; 

The designing and manufacture of costumes and equip- 
ments ; 

Tlie selection of the Grand Marshals and Stafifs; 

The hiring of music; 

The control of the official reviewing stands for these 
occasions ; 

And the issuing of invitations to the reviewing party. 

(Concerning the issuing of invitations, see note under 
Invitations Committee. Concerning printing of tickets, see 
note on printing at end of list.) 

Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William Street, New York. 



B. Altman, 
August Belmont, 
Hon. William Berri, 
George C. Boldt, 
Hon. David A. Boody, 
Hon. George C. Clausen, 
George Ehret, 
Frank S. Gardner, 
James A. Hearn, 
Colgate Hoyt, 
Gen. Horatio C. King, 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, 
William C. Muschenheim, 
Hon. Lewis Nixon, 



Eben E. Olcott, 
William Church Osborn, 
Bavard L. Peck, 
Howland Pell, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Louis C. Raegener, 
Carl J. Roehr, 
Jacob H. Schiff, 
Louis Seligsberg, 
William Sohmer, 
James Speyer, 
Hon. Louis Stern, 
J. Leonard Varick, 
Edmund Wetmore, 



Charles B. Wolffram. 

Children's Festivals Committee. 

To encourage public school children and juvenile insti- 
tutions and organizations to hold children's festivals out- 
of-doors on Saturday, October 2. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. Chairman, 1133 Broadway. 
Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury, Willis Holly, 

Morris P. Ferris, George R. Sutherland, 

Dr. E. R. L. Gould, Hon. Richard Young. 

Clermont Committee. 

After its construction, to receive the fac-simile of the 
Clermont ; 



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To arrange for its berthing or anchorage, protection and 
exhibition prior to the Naval Parade of Friday, October i ; 

To manage it during the Naval Parade to and at New- 
burgh ; 

To conduct it on the following day with the North Hud- 
son squadron to the head of navigation ; 

To make recommendations to the Commission concerning 
its final disposition after the Celebration ; and to attend to 
the execution of the Commission's decision on that subject. 

(The Naval Parade Committee will be responsible for 
the design and construction of the Clermont. In the Naval 
Parade, the Clermont Committee, like the commanders of 
all other vessels, will be subject to the arrangments of the 
Naval Parade Committee.) 

Eben E. Olcott, Chairman Desbrosses Street Pier, N. R. 

Constructor, William J. Baxter, U. S. N. 
Robert Fulton Cutting, Robert Fulton Ludlow, 

Frederick B. Dalzell, Stevenson Taylor. 

Decorations and Reviezving Stands Committee. 

To invite the public authorities and owners of great office 
buildings, by individual letters, to decorate their buildings 
during celebration week ; 

To suggest to the public authorities the erection of suit- 
able street decorations, such as arches, courts of honor, etc. ; 

To make suitable appeals through the press to citizens 
generally to decorate their houses during the festival ; 

Upon request of any other Committee to provide the 
decorations which it may need ; 

And to attend to the construction of reviewing stands for 
the open air functions, upon request of the Committees 
having such functions in charge. 

(The control of the use of the reviewing stands will be 
in the hands of the Committees having- charge of the 
functions for which they are used.) 

Charles R. Lamb, Chairman, 23 Sixth Avenue. 
John C. Fames, W. R. O'Donovan, 

Albert E. Kleinert, George Henry Sargent, 

Homer Lee, John W. Simpson, 

William Allen Marble, Isaac Stern, 

Ludwig Nissen, Henry R. Towne. 

Dedications Committee. 

Upon request of the Committee on Memorials, to assist 
in the arrangements for the dedication of monuments or 
tablets which have been erected either by the Commission 



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itself or which have been erected by other organizations 
with the official countenance of this Coimmission ; 

And to promote generally the dedication of memorials 
of various sorts by other organizations as contemplated in 
the programme for Thursday, September 30. 

Hon. Warren Higley, Chairman, 165 Broadway. 
George Clinton Batcheller, James de la Montanye, 

George V. Brower, Hon. Garret J. Garretson, 

Frederick R. Cruikshank, Walter G. Hudson, 

Hon. Charles de Kay, T. D. Huntting, 

John J. Sinclair. 

^Executive Committee. 

To perform the usual duties of the Executive Committee 
as prescribed in the By-Laws. 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman, 18 Wall Street, New York. 
John E. Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 



Hon. James M. Beck, 

Tunis G. Bergen, 

Hon. William Berri, 

Andrew Carnegie, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 

Rear Ad. J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N., 

William J. Curtis, 

Theodore Fitch, 

Austen G. Fox, 

Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A., 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Col. William Jay, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, 

John La Farge, 

Hon. Seth Low, 

Hon. William McCarroll, 

Comdr. Jacob W. Miller, 

Frank D. Millet, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, 



Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 
Eben E. Olcott, 
Hon. George W. Perkins, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Gen. Horace Porter, 
Louis C. Raegener, 
Herman Ridder, 
Henry W. Sackett, 
Isaac N. Seligman. 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
J. Edward Simmons, 
Hon. John H. Starin, 
Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Spencer Trask, 
Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Hon. Andrew D. White, 
Hon. Wm. R. Willcox, 
Gen. James Grant Wilson. 



^General Commeinoratk'e Exercises Committee. 

To request and to assist, by pamphlets, correspondence, 
and other appropriate means, universities, colleges, public 
schools, historical and patriotic societies, and institutions 
of learning generally throughout the state, to hold com- 
memorative exercises on Historical Day, Tuesday, Sep- 
tember 28. 

President Jacob G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman, Ithaca. 
Hon. James N. Adam, Hon. David A. Boody, 

Hon. William H. Barker, Hon. E. H. Butler, 

Hon. F. Beebe, Hon. Samuel A. Carlson, 



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Andrew Carnegie, Hon. W. H. Mandeville, 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater, George E. Matthews, 

Hon. Charles W- Cool, Hon. Grove T. Maxon, 

Hon. Jacob H. Dealy, Hon. St. Clair McKelway, 

Hon. Eugene de Kleist, Hon. Thomas A. McNamara, 

Hon. Anthony C. Douglass, Hon. W. B. Mooers, 

Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton, Hon. Jared T. Newman, 

Hon. Meyer Einstein, Hon. Richard M. Prangen, 

Hon. Allan C. Fobes, Hon. Edward Quirk, 

Hon. William Follette, Hon. Arthur P. Rose, 

Hon. C. A. Frost, Col. William Cary Sanger, 

Dr. E. R. L. Gould, Hon. A. B. Santry, 

Hon. Edward M. Grout, Hon. Daniel Sheehan, 

Hon. John Hannan, Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 

Hon. Francis M. Hugo, Hon. C. M. Slauson, 

Hon. Albert Kessinger, Hon. John K. Smith, 

Hon. C. August Koenig, Hon. E. B. Vreeland, 

Hon. Robert Lawrence, Hon. Thomas Wheeler, 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Charles R. Wilson, 
Hon. Frederick M. Young. 

Half Moon Committee. 

To keep in touch and collaborate with the Committee 
of citizens of Holland who are building the fac-simile of 
the Half Moon; 

To receive it upon arrival, and have the care of its berth- 
ing or anchorage, and its protection and exhibition prior to 
the Naval Parade ; 

To have charge of it during the Naval Parade to and at 
Newburgh on Friday, October i ; 

To conduct it with the North Hudson squadron to the 
head of navigation on Saturday, October 2 ; 

And to make recommendations to the Commission con- 
cerning its final disposition after the celebration and to 
execute the decision of the Commission on that subject. 

(The Reception and Hospitality Committees will, upon 
request of the Half Moon Committee, co-operate with the 
latter in properly receiving and entertaining the Hollanders 
who bring the Half Moon. In the Naval Parade, the Half 
Moon Committee will be subject to the arrangements of 
the Naval Parade Committee.) 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, Chairman, 120 Broadway. 
Tunis G. Bergen, Capt. Chas. H. Loring, U. S. N., 

George G. De Witt, Charles A. Schermerhorn, 

Lt. Wm. B. Franklin, U. S. N., John R. Van Wormer, 
William G. Ver Planck. 

Historical Committee. 

To pass upon and if necessary revise any historical pub- 
lication of the Commission, such as the " Book of the 



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Pageant," the " Historical Souvenir Book," etc., if such be 
printed ; 

To approve of the subjects proposed for representation 
by the Carnival and Historical Parades Committee ; 

And to advise with any other Committee of the Com- 
mission upon any question of historical fact or propriety. 

Samuel V. Hoffman, Chairman, 258 Broadway. 
Theodore M. Banta, V\^i]liam Homan, 

Reginald P. Bolton, Clarence E. Leonard, 

Hon. John D. Crimmins, Hon. Townsend Scudder, 

Arthur Engish, Hon. Theodore H. Silkman, 

Winchester Fitch, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Hospitality Committee. 

Upon request of any committee whose duties involve the 
invitation of official guests who are to be entertained at the 
expense of the Commission, to provide the necessary hotel 
accommodations for such guests and otherwise look out 
for their comfort and pleasure. 

Dr. George C. Batcheller, Chairman, 696 Broadway. 
E. S. A. De Lima, William A. Marble, 

J. Leonard Varick. 

'■^Hudson River Scenery Committee. 

To promote legislation ; 
To encourage private generosity ; 
To foster public sentiment, and 
To co-operate with other organizations 
With a view to securing the preservation of the natural 
beauty of the Hudson River. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker, Chairman, 3 South William Street. 
Hon. John Bigelow, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Henry E. Gregory, Gen. Charles F. Roe, 

Hon. Samuel Parsons, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, 

Hon. J. Du Pratt White. 

Illuminations Committee. 

To have oversight and control of the operations of the 
Pain Manufacturing Company as Official Illuminators; 

And to promote the general illumination by public au- 
thorities and private individuals as contemplated in the 
programme for Saturday evening, October 2. 

Hon. William Berri, Chairman, 526 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
Capt. Richard H. Greene, Henry W. Wetmore, 

Hon. William F. Sheehan, Fred C. Whitney. 



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*Invitations Committee. 

To have engraved or printed and issued to guests of 
honor the official invitations issued in the name of the Com- 
mission ; 

And upon request of any other Committee, to provide 
such Committee with the invitations which it requires for 
the function in its charge. 

(All engraving and printing which is to be paid for out 
of subscription funds or sales of tickets or privileges may 
be ordered of any engraver or printer ; but if to be paid 
for out of funds appropriated by the State, must be done 
by the State Printer at Albany and may be ordered through 
the Secretary of the Commission.) 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Chairman, 60 Wall Street. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Hon. Alton B. Parker, The Secretary, ex-officio. 

^Inwood Park Committee. 

To secure the creation of a Public Park at Inwood Hill 
in the city of New York. 

John E. Parsons, Chairman, 52 William Street. 
William J. Curtis, Ebcn E. Olcott, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. George W. Perkins, 

Henry W. Sackett. 

*Lazv and Legislation Committee. 

To pass upon questions of law arising in the course of 
the business of the Commission ; 

And to draft and secure such legislation as may be neces- 
sary to carry out the Commission's objects. 

Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman, 15 Broad Street, New York. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Hon. John G. Milburn, 

William J. Curtis, John E. Parsons, 

Theodore Fitch, Nelson S. Spencer, 

Col. William Jay, The President, ex-ofificio. 

Lectures Committee. 

To arrange for the delivery of free public lectures bear- 
ing on the history of the Hudson River under the auspices 
of the Board of Education of the city of New York, during 
celebration week. 

Henry M. Leipziger, Ph.D., Chairman, 500 Park Avenue. 
Richard B. Aldcrofift, Jr. Herbert L. Bridgman. 

Henrv L. Stoddard. 



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Local Celebrations Committee. 

To arrange for, or to extend the Commission's official 
countenance to, local celebrations in the various communi- 
ties along the Hudson River. 

Hon. Henry Hudson, Chairman, Hudson, N. Y. 
Hon. Horace W. Boyd, Hon. Thomas Lynch, 

Hon. D. A. Bullard, Hon. Charles McElroy, 

Hon. Clifford Bush, Bayard L. Peck, 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hon. George G. Raymond, 

Hon. John H. Coyne, Hon. John K. Sague, 

Hon. Walter P. Crane, Hon. Isaac H. Smith, 

Hon. Lyman C. French, Hon. L. L. Stillman, 

Hon. Chas. H. Gaus, Hon. F. Herbert Sutherland, 

Hon. John Gross, Hon. Fred. W. Titus, 

Abner S. Haight, Hon. Arthur C. Tucker, 

Hon. M. D. Hanson, Hon. C. E. Vredenburg, 

Hon. William D. Howe, Hon. Nathan A. Warren, 

Hon. Irving J. Justus, Hon. Robert B. Waters, 

Hon. Anthony J. Weaver. 

Medal. 

To arrange for the striking of the official commemorative 
medal ; 

To attend to the presentation of such copies as are given 
gratuitously to rulers and distinguished officials ; and 

To attend to the sale of copies otherwise disposed of to 
the members of the Commission or the public. 

Henry W. Cannon, Chairman, lo Wall Street. 
Edward D. Adams, John La Farge, 

Archer M. Huntington, Frank D. Millet, 

August F. Jaccaci, Charles H. Niehaus, 

Dr. George F. Kunz, C. Y. Turner. 

* Memorials Committee. 

To consider and make recommendations to the Trustees 
concerning projects to erect monuments and tablets which 
seek the official endorsement of the Commission ; 

To co-operate in the execution of such projects as are 
approved by the Commission ; 

To attend to the erection of such monuments or tablets 
as may be ordered by the Commission itself ; 

To arrange with the United States Treasury Department 
for the issue of commemorative coinage ; 

To arrange with the United States Postoffice Department 
for the issue of commemorative postage stamps ; 

To arrange, either with the Postoffice Department, or 
with a private company for the issue of souvenir post- 
cards ; 



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And to attend to the printing of a souvenir programme 
if one be authorized by the Trustees. 

Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman, 55 Liberty Street. 

Walter Cook, Hon. Seth Low, 

Cleveland H. Dodge, John Jay McKelvey, 

Dr. James Douglas, Wm. C. Muschenheim, 

Samuel V. Hoffman, Gustav H. Schwab, 

Col. William Jay, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Frederick S. Lamb, Hon. William R. Willcox. 

^Military Parade Committee. 

To arrange for the MiHtary Parade on Wednesday, Sep- 
tember 29, in all its details. 

Gen. Charles F. Roe, Chairman, 280 Broadway. 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, Gen. Anson G. McCook, 

Capt. C. A. Du Bois, Gen. A. L. Mills, U. S. A. 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A., Gen. Horace Porter. 

Music Festival Committee. 

To arrange for a Music Festival to be held Monday 
evening, September 27. 

Louis C. Raegener, Chairman, 141 Broadway. 
Gen. Horatio C. King, Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, 

Julius Lehrenkrauss, Hon. Charles A. Schieren. 

'^Naval Parade Committee. 

To be responsible in the first instance for the proper 
reception of the American and Foreign naval vessels at- 
tending on the invitation of the Commission. 

(In this duty, the Naval Parade Committee may call upon 
the Reception and Hospitality Committees for assistance. ) 

To make the preliminary arrangements for the construc- 
tion of the fac-simile of the Half Moon. 

(This has already been done; and the Half Moon Com- 
mittee will be responsible for further co-operation v^^ith the 
Committee of Hollanders.) 

To plan and make the preliminary arrangements for the 
construction of the fac-simile of the Clermont. 

(The Naval Parade Committee will notify the Clermont 
Committee when the construction is so far advanced that 
further responsibility is turned over to that Committee.) 

And to arrange for and conduct the Naval Parade from 
Nev^ York to Newburgh on Friday, October i, and from 
Newburgh to New York on Saturday, October 2. 



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(In this parade, the Half Moon and Clermont Com- 
mittees will be subject to the directions of the Naval Parade 
Committee.) 

Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Chairman, 
29 Park Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Const'r Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Com. Jacob W. Miller, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, Chas. R. Norman, 

R. Ad. C. F. Goodrich, U. S. N., Commander R. E. Peary, 
Lt. Chas. E. Heitman, U. S. N., Louis T. Romaine, 
August F. Jaccaci, Hon. John H. Starin, 

William J. McKay, l.t.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, Capt. Aaron Ward, U. S. N. 

U. S. N., 

Newhurgh Ceremonies Committee. 

To co-operate with the Committee of Citizens at New- 
burgh in arranging the exercises at Newburgh on Friday, 
October i, and to co-ordinate their plans with those of the 
Commission. 

Hon. Benjamin AlcClung, Chairman, Newburgh, N. Y. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown, William J. McKay, 

Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg, Gordon H. Peck. 

"^Nominations Co mmittee. 

To consider and make to the Trustees recommendations 
concerning nominations for membership on the Commis- 
sion; 

To make nominations of Trustees for election at the 
annual meeting to be held on the first Wednesday after 
the first Monday in May, and to fill vacancies ; 

And to make nominations of Officers to be elected by 
the Trustees at their meeting on the fourth Wednesday in 
May. 

Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 120 Broadway. 
William J. Curtis, Col. John W. Vrooman, 

Henry W. Sackett, The President, ex-officio. 

North Hudson Committee. 

To arrange for a naval parade from Troy or Albany to 
Newburgh on Friday, October i, and from Newburgh to 
Albany or Troy on Saturday, October 2, in conjunction 
with the Naval Parade from New York City ; 

Or to co-operate with local committees arranging for the 
same. 

(The North Hudson Committee may confer with the 
Committee on Local Celebrations as to whether the North 



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Hudson Committee will also co-operate in the arrangement 
of celebrations on land north of Newburgh.) 

Hon. Charles H. Gaus, Chairman, Albany, N. Y. 



Hon. Walter P. Crane, 
Hon. William Draper, 
Hon. Charles A. Elliott, 
Hon. James F. Fitzgerald, 
Hon. John T. Flynn, 
Benjamin F. Hamilton, 
Hon. C. W. Higley, 
Hon. Henry Hudson, 
Hon. John L. Hughes, 



Hon. Roswell S. Judson, 
Hon. Elias P. Mann. 
Hon. Arthur MacArthur, 
Donald McDonald, 
Hon. Daniel P. Quinn, 
Hon. A. Rowe, 
Prof. John C. Smock, 
Hon. John K. Sague, 
William B. Van Rensselaer, 



Hon. Horace S. Van Voast. 
* Official Literary Exercises Committee. 
To arrange for the Official Literary Exercises on Tues- 
day evening, September 28, in the Metropolitan Opera 
House, Carnegie Hall, and any other place that may be 
decided upon. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman, 157 W. 79th Street. 
R. P. Bolton, Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Edward DeWitt, Albert Ulmann. 

Edmund Wetmore, 

Old Home Week Committee. 
To consider and make recommendations upon the subject 
of having an Old Home Week in communities along the 
Hudson River during the week beginning Sunday, October 

And to co-operate in arranging commemorations during 
that week if such an extension of the celebration be 
adopted. 

(The duties of the Old Home Week Committee are in- 
tended to apply to the week beginning October 3. The 
duties of the Local Celebrations Committee apply to the 
preceding week.) 

Hon. John K. Sague, Chairman, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Hon. John E. Andrus, 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover, 
Hon. J. H. Callanan, 
Hon. J. H. Clarkson, 
Frederick J. Collier, 
Hon. Walter P. Crane, 
Hon. James H. Doyle, 
Hon. J. S. Fassett, 
Morris P. Ferris, 
Hon. James L. Freeborn, 
Benjamin F. Hamilton, 
Hon. Clarence Lexow, 
Herman Livingston, 
Hon. Joel D. Madden, 



Hon. John McLindon, 

Hon. Dennis Moynihan, 

Hon. Vincent A. Murray, 

Hon. W. H. Myers, 

William Church Osborn, 

Bayard L. Peck, 

Hon. Clarence E. Powell, 

Hon. A. F. Quick, 

Hon. F. Herbert Sutherland, 

Hon. E. L. Wemple, 

Edward C. Wilson, 

Hon. John Wirth, 

Hon. Edward J. Wood, 

Hon. F. G. Zinsser. 



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Patriotic Societies Committee. 

To secure the furtherance of patriotic societies in the 
exercises of the celebration, and particularly in those of 
the carnival and historical parades. 

Edmund Wetmore, Chairman, 34 Pine Street, New York. 
Louis A. Ames, Theodore Fitch, 

Edward DeWitt, Rowland Pell, 

Morris P. Ferris, Chas. A. Schermerhorn. 

*Plan and Scope Committee. 

To consider and make recommendations concerning the 
general plan and scope of the celebration. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman, Montrose, N. Y. 
Hon. James M. Beck, Ebon E. Olcott, 

Tunis G. Bergen, John E. Parsons, 

Hon. William Berri, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 

Rr. Ad. J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Herman Ridder, 
Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A., Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Wm. McCarroIl, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

J. Pierpont Morgan, The President, ex-officio. 

Public Health and Convenience Committee. 

To promote, during celebration week, by means of circu- 
lars, placards, bureaus of information, and other means, 
the health, comfort and convenience of the out-door public, 
and particularly of strangers unfamiliar with the facilities 
of the city. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter, Chairman, 181 West 73d Street. 
R. B. AldcrofFt, Jr., George F. Gregory, 

George Wm. Ballou, Dr. LeRoy Hubbard, 

Dr. James C. Bayles, Nathan Newman, 

John F. Calder, Percy B. O'Sullivan, 

E. D. Cummings, Dr. Irving Townsend. 

Public Safety Committee. 

To promote public safety during celebration week by ar- 
ranging for the proper policing of reviewing stands and 
lines of march, and by such other means as may be neces- 
sary. 

Hon. William McCarroIl, Chairman, 154 Nasasu Street. 
Abraham Abraham, Orrel A. Parker, 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley, Samuel H. Parsons, 

James P. Holland. Hon. Theodore Sutro, 

Jacob Katz, Hon. Charles G. F. Wahle, 

Charles W. Lefler, Charles W. Wetmore, 

Hon. Warner Miller. W. E. Woolley, 

James A. Wright. 



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"^Reception Committee. 

To represent the Commission in the formal reception of 
invited guests, either upon assignment by the Officers or 
Trustees of the Commission, or upon request of any Com- 
mittee authorized to invite official guests. 

Hon. Seth Low, Chairman, 30 East 64th Street. 

Col. John Jacob Astor, Ogden Mills, 

Hon. James M. Beck, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Hon. Frank S. Black, Fordham Morris, 

Hon. A. J. Boulton, Hon. Levi P. Morton, 

Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Alton B. Parker, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 

John Claflin, Thos. R. Proctor, 

Sir Caspar Pardon Clarke, Herman Ridder, 

R. Ad. J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N., Wm. Rockefeller, 

Cleveland H. Dodge, Henry W. Sackett, 

Hon. Smith Ely, Pres. Jacob G. Schurman, 

Most Rev. John M. Farley, Isaac N. Seligman, 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis. Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A., Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 

Hon. David B. Hill, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Henry E. Howland, Flon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Col. William Jay, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Col. John J. McCook, Hon. William R. Willcox, 

Hon. George B. McClellan, Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

Hon. St. Clair McKelway, ]\Iaj.-Gen. Leonard A. Wood, 

R. Ad. G. W. Melville. U. S. N., U. S. A., 

Hon. John G. Milburn. Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 

Religious Services Committee. 

To take such steps as may be necessary, by correspon- 
dence, circular or public appeal, to secure appropriate re- 
ligious observances on Saturday, September 25, and Sun- 
day, September 26. 

Hon. John G. Agar, Chairman, 31 Nassau Street. 
E. W. Bloomingdale, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce, Hon. James J. Fitzgerald, 

Paul D. Cravath, George A. Plimpton, 

Robert Fulton Cutting, Warner Van Norden. 

Transportation Committee. 

To arrange with railroad and steamboat lines for proper 
transportation facilities and favorable rates of fare. 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Chairman, 41 Park Row. 
Charles H. Armatage, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, 

Edward P. Bryan, Stuyvesant Fish, 

William Lanman Bull, Thomas Powell Fowler, 

E. S. A. De Lima, Thomas F. Ryan. 



Committees 679 

*VcrpIaiick's Point Park Coiiniiittee. 

To endeavor to secure the creation of a public park at 
Verplanck's Point by the State of New York. 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Hon. James K. Apgar, Hon. Warren Higley, 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Hon. J. Rider Cad}', Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 

Abner S. Haight, Hon. W. L. Ward, 

Hon. Joseph S. Wood. 

^IVays mid Means Committee. 

To consider and make recommendations concerning the 
general financial plan of the Commission; 

To receive and collate in budget form and to submit to 
the Trustees with recommendations the financial estimates 
of Committees ; 

To have charge of the raising of funds by public sub- 
scription if such a course be decided upon by the Trustees ; 

And to have charge of raising funds by such other means 
as are not undertaken by the Committee on Law and Legis- 
lation. 

Herman Ridder, Chairman, 182 William Street. 

Frederick S. Flower, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Henry C. Frick, J. Edward Simmons, 

Robert Walton Goelet, Francis Lynde Stetson, 

George J. Gould, James Stillman. 

John E. Parsons. Spencer Trask. 

Hon. George W. Perkins, A. G. Vanderbilt, 

Thomas F. Rvan. The President, ex-nfficio. 

Note Concerning Printing. 

All printing or engraving which is to be paid for out of 
moneys appropriated by the State must be done by the State 
Printer at Albany and may be ordered through the Secre- 
tary of the Commission. 



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The names of Trustees are set in italics. 

The names of the Mayors of the 46 cities of the State, who are 
members of the Commission and Trustees by virtue of their office, 
are designated thus (*). 

The names of the Presidents of 38 incorporated villages along 
the Hudson river who are members of the Commisson by virtue of 
their office are designated thus (t). 

Abraham Abraham, 420 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

*Hon. James N. Adam (Mayor), Buffalo, N. Y. 

Edward D. Adams, 71 Broadway, New York. 

Herbert Adams, 131 West nth Street, New York. 

John G. Agar, 31 Nassau street, Nezu York. 

Richard B. Aldcrofft, Jr., 220 Broadway, New York. 

Alphonse H. Alker, 338 Madison avenue. New York. 

B. Altman, 25 Madison avenue. New York. 

Louis Annin Ames, 99 Fulton street. New York. 

Hon. John E. Andrus, Yonkers, N. Y. 

JJon. James K. Apgar, PeekskUl, N. Y. 

Charles H. Armatage, Albany, N. Y. 

Col. John Jacob Astor, 23 West 26th street, New York. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury, 145 West 86th street. New York. 

Geo. Wm. Ballou, 428 East 48th street. New York. 

Theodore M. Banta, 346 Broadway, New York. 

*Hon. Wm. H. Barker (Mayor), Lockport. N. Y. 

Col. Franklin Barflctt, 5 Nassau street, Nezv York. 

George C. Batcheller, 696 Broadway, New York. 

Constructor Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N., Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Dr. James C. Bayles, 15 Gramercy Park, New York. 

Hon. James M. Beck, 44 Wall street, Nezu York. 

*Hon. F. Beebe (Mayor), Johnstozun, iV. Y. 

August Belmont, 23 Nassau street, Nczif York. 

tHon. M. S. Beltzhoover (President), Irvington, N. Y. 

Tunis G. Bergen, 55 Liberty street, Nezu York. 

Hon. William Berri, 526 Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Hon. John Bigelow, 21 Gramercv Park, New York. 

Hon. Frank S. Black, Troy, N. Y. 

Hon. E. W. Bloomingdale, 644 Madison avenue, New York. 

George C. Boldt, Waldorf Astoria, New York. 

Reginald Pelham Bolton, 527 Fifth avenue. New York. 

Hon. David A. Boody, 176 Montague street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Hon. A. J. Boulton, 232 Gates az'cnue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

tHon. Horace W. Boyd (President), Nyack, N. Y. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley, Walden, N. Y. 

Herbert L. Bridgman, Brooklyn Standard Union, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

George I'. Brozvcr, 44 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown, 509 Fifth avenue. New York. 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce, 18 Wall street, New York. 



List of Members 68 1 

Edward P. Bryan, 13 Park row, New York. 

William L. Bull, 17 Nassau street. New York. 

tHon. D. A. Bullard (President), Schuylerville, N. Y. 

tHon. Clifford Bush (President), Corinth, N. Y. 

Henry K. Bush-Brown, Newburgh, N. Y. 

Hon. E. H. Butler, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hudson, N. Y. 

John F. Calder, 50 Central Park, West, New York. 

Hon. J. H. Callanan, Schenectady, N. Y. 

Henry W. Cannon, 10 Wall street. New York. 

*Hon. Samuel A. Carlson (Mayor), Jamestown, N. Y. 

Andrezv Carnegie, 2 East gist street, New York. 

Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park row, New York. 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 60 Wall street. New York. 

John Claflin, 15 Washington square, North, New York. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nezo 

York. 
tHon. J. H. Clarkson (President), Cornwall, N. Y. 
Hon. George C. Clausen, 277 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Kingston, N. Y. 
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., 29 Park avenue. New 

Rochelle, N. Y. 
Frederick J. Collier, Hudson, N. Y. 
E. C. Converse, 7 Wall street. New York. 
Walter Cook, 3 West 29th street. New York. 
*/fo«. Charles W. Cool {Mayor), Glens Falls, N. Y. 
Hon. John H. Coyne, Yonkers, N. Y. 
*Hon. W. P. Crane {Mayor), Kingston, N. Y. 
Paul D. Cravath, 52 William street, Nezv York. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins, 40 East 68th street. New York. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank, i Liberty street, New York. 
E. D. Cummings, 149 Broadway, iSTew York. 
William. J. Curtis, 49 IVall street, Nezv York. 
Robert Fulton Cutting, 32 Nassau street, N'ezu York. 
Frederick B. Dalzell, 70 South street. New York. 
*Hon. Jacob H. Dealy (Mayor), Amsterdam, N. Y. 
Hon. Robert IV. De Forest, 7 Washington square. North, New 

York. 
Hon. Charles de Kay, 413 West 23d street, New York. 
*Hon. Eugene de Kleist (Mayor), North Tonazvanda, N. Y. 
James de la Montanye, 239 Broadway, New York. 
Elias S. A. de Lima, 24 State street. New York. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, 27 West 54th street. New York. 
Edward DeWitt, 86 Nassau street. New York. 
George G. DcJJ'itf, 88 N'assau street, Nezv York. 
Cleveland H. Dodge, 99 John street, New York. 
Dr. James Douglas, 99 John street, New York. 
*Hon. Anthonv C. Douglass (Mavor). Niagara Falls, N. Y 
tHon. James H. Doyle (President), Fishkill, N. Y. 
Hon. William Draper, Troy, N. Y. 
Capt. Charles A. DuBois, 3555 Broadway, New York. 
John C. Fames. 224 Church street, A^ezv York. 
*Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton (Mayor), Rochester, N. Y. 
George Ehret, 235 East 92d street. New York. 
*Hon. Meyer Einstein (Mavor), Dunkirk. N. Y. 
tHon. Charles A. Elliott (President), Catskill, N. Y. 
Hon. Smith Ely, 103 Gold street, New York. 



682 List of Members 



Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 89 Madison avenue, New York. 
Hon. Arthur English, 43 Exchange place, New York. 
Most Rev. John M. Farley, 452 Madison avenue, New York. 
Hon. J. Sloat Fassctt, Elmira, N. Y. 
Barr Ferree, 7 Warren street. New York. 
Morris P. Ferris, 676 West End avenue. New York. 
Stuyvcsant Fish, 216 Broadzvay, New York. 
Theodore FitcJi, 120 Broadzvay, Neiv York. 
Winchester Fitch, 300 West 8ist street. New York. 
tHon. James F. FitzGerald (President), Fort Edward, N. Y. 
Hon. J. J. Fitzgerald, 27 William street. New York. 
Frederick S. Flower, 45 Broadway, New York. 
tHon. John T. Flynn (President), Castleton, N. Y. 
*Hon. Alan C. Fobes (Mayor), Syracuse, N. Y. 
*Hoii. IVm. FoUettc {Mayor), Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Thomas Pozvcll Fozider, 56 Beaver street, Nezv York. 
Austen G. Fox, 45 Wall street, New York. 
Hon. Charles S. Francis, American Embassy, Vienna, Austria. 
Commander W. B. Franklin, iii Broadway, New York. 
tHon. James L. Freeborn (President), Tivoli, N. Y. 
tHon. Lyman C. French (President), Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 
Henry C. Frick, Union League Club, New York. 
*Hon. C. A. Frost (Mayor), Oneida, N. Y. 
Frank S. Gardner, 203 Broadway, New York. 
Hon. Garret J. Garretson, Elmhurst, N. Y. 
*Hon. Charles H. Cans (Mayor) , Albany, N. Y. 
Hon. Theodore P. Gilman, 2;^-/ Fulton street. New York. 
Robert Walton Goelet, 9 West 17th street, New York. 
Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, U. S. N., Navy Yard, Brook- 
lyn. N. Y. 
Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould. 301 West 77th street, New York. 
George J. Gould, 195 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

Maj. Gen. Fredk. D. Grant, U. S. A., Dcpt. of Lakes. Chicago, HI. 
Capt. Richard H. Greene, 235 Central Park, West, New York. 
George F. Gregory, 42 West 3Sth street. New York. 
Henry E. Gregory, 25 Liberty street, Nezv York. 
tHon. John Gross (President), Tarrytown, N. Y. 
Hon. Edward M. Grout, in Broadway, New York. 
Abner S. Haight, 49 Leonard street. New York. 
Edzvard Hagaman Hall, Tribune Building, Nezv York. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton, 120 Broadway, New York. 
*Hon. John Hanuon (Mayor), Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
*Hon. M. D. Hanson (Mayor), Cohoes, N. Y. 
George A. Hearn, 20 West 14th street, Nezv York. 
James A. Hearn, 20 West 14th street. New York. 
Lieut. Charles E. Heitman, U. S. N., 40 Wall street, New York. 
Peter Cooper Hewitt, 11 Lexington avenue. New York. 
tHon. C. W. Higley (President), Sandy Hill, N. Y. 
Hon. Warren Higley, 165 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 
Hon. David B. Hill Albany, N. Y. 
Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg, Newburgh, N. Y. 
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 258 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 
James P. Holland, 159 Meserole avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Willis Holly, 17 Park row. New York. 
William Homan, i West 97th street. New York. 
Hon. Henry E. Howland, 15 Broad street. New York. 
Colgate Hoyt, 36 Wall street. New York. 



List of Members 683 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbard, 2036 Fifth avenue, New York. 

Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, 25 Broad street, New York. 

Hon. Henry Hudson (Mayor), Hudson, N. Y. 

Walter G. Hudson, 63 Wall street, New York. 

tHon. John L. Hughes (President), Wappingers Falls, N. Y. 

*Hon. Francis M. Hugo {Mayor), Watertouin, N. Y. 

*Hon. Wm. D. Hozve {Mayor), Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

Archer M. Huntington, 1083 Fifth avenue. New York. 

T. D. Huntting, 239 Broadway, New York. 

August F. Jaccaci, 7 West 43^ street, New York. 

Col. William Jay, 48 Wall street, New York. 

tHon. Roswell S. Judson (President), Matteawan, N. Y. 

tHon. Irving J. Justus (President), Fishkill Landing, N. Y. 

Jacob Katz, 124 East 85th street, New York. 

*Hon. Albert Kcssiiiger {Mayor), Rome, N. Y. 

Gen. Horatio C. King, 44 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Albert E. Kleinert, 16 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

*Hon. C. August Koenig {Mayor), Auburn, N. Y. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, 401 Fifth avenue, Nezv York. 

John LaFarge, 51 West loth street. New York. 

Charles R. Lamb, 23 Sixth avenue. New York. 

Frederick S. Lamb, 23 Sixth avenue. New York. 

*Hon. Robert Laxvrence {Mayor), Middletotvn, N. Y. 

Homer Lee, 553 West End avenue, New York. 

Charles W. Lefler, y^ Nassau street. New York. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss, 375 Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipsiger, 500 Park avenue, Nezv York. 

Clarence E. Leonard, 44 East 23d street, New York. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow, 43 Cedar street, New York. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, 45 Cedar street. New York. 

Herman Livingston, Catskill Station, N. Y. 

Com. Chas. H. Loring, U. S. N., 239 Clarerhont avenue. Brook- 
lyn. N. Y. 

Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, 257 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Seth Lozv, 30 East 64th street, Nezv York. 

R. Fulton Ludlow, Claverack, N. Y. 

tHon. Thomas Lynch (President), Haverstraw, N. Y. 

Hon. Arthur MacArthur, Troy, N. Y. 

tHon. Joel D. Madden (President), Ossining, N. Y. 

*Hon. W. H. Mandeville {Ma\or), Clean, N. Y. 

*Hon. Ellas P. Mann {Mayor), Troy, N. Y. 

William A. Marble, 39=^ Broadway, New York. 

George E. Matthews, Buffalo, N. Y. 

*Hon. Grove T. Ma.von {Mayor), Cortland, N. Y. 

Hon. William McCarroll, Tribune Building, Nezv York. 

*Hon. George B. McClcllan {Mayor), City Hall, Nezv York. 

*Hon. Benjamin McChing {Mayor). Nezvburgh, N. Y. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook, 319 Broadway, New York. 

Col. John J. McCook, 10 West 54th street, New York. 

Donald McDonald, Albany, N. Y. 

tHon. Charles McElroy (President), South Nyack, N. Y. 

William J. McKay. Nezvburgh, N. Y. 

John J. McKelvey, 84 William street. New York. 

Hon. St. Clair McKelway, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

tHon. John McLindon (President), Victory Mills, N. Y. 

*Hon. Thomas A. McNamara {Mayor), Corning, N. Y. 



684 



List of Members 



Rear Admiral George JV. Melville, U. S. N., 615 U'^alnnt street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Hon. John G. Milburn, 54 ]Vall street, Neiv York. 

Commander Jacob IV. Miller, Pier 19, North River, Nezv York. 

Hon. Warner Miller, 100 Broadway, New York. 

Frank D. Millet, 6 East 2T,d street, Nezv York. 

Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills, U. S. A., Iloilo, Philippine Islands. 

Ogden Mills, 15 Broad street, Nezv York. 

*Hon. IV. B. Mooers {Mayor), Plattsburg, N. Y. 

J. Pierpont Morgan, 23 Wall street, Nezv York. 

Hon. Fordham Morris, 45 East 30th street, New York. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, 38 Nassau street, Nezv York. 

tHon. Dennis Moynihan (President), South Glens Falls, N. Y. 

tHon. Vincent A. Murray (President), Cold Spring, N. Y. 

William C. Muschenheim, Hotel Astor, Nezv York. 

tHon. W. H. Myers (President), Piermont, N. Y. 

*Hon. Jared T. Nezvman (Mayor), Ithaca, N. Y. 

Nathan Newman, 106 Dresden street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Charles H. Niehaus, 148 West 36th street. New York. 

Ludzvig Nissen, 182 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon, 43 Cedar street. New York. 

Charles R. Norman, 11 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 524 FiftJi avenue, Nezv York. 

William R. O'Donovan, 31 St. Nicholas place. New York. 

Eben E. Olcott, Desbrosses Street Pier, Nezv York. 

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, New York. 

William Church Osborn, 71 Broadway, New York. 

Percy B. O'Sullivan, 95 Wall street. New York. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker, 3 South William, street, Nezv York. 

Orrel A. Parker, 120 Broadway, New York. 

John E. Parsons, 52 William street, Nezv York. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons, 1133 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

Samuel H. Parsons, 3 Broad street, New York. 

Commander R. E. Peary, U. S. N., 15 West 8ist street, New York. 

Bayard L. Peck, 32 Nassau street, Nezv York. 

Gordon H. Peck, West Haverstraw, N. Y. 

Howland Pell, 7 Pine street. New York. 

Hon. George W. Perkins, 23 Wall street, Nezv York. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 2S0 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

George A. Plimpton, 70 Fifth avenue, New York. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 181 West 73d street. New York. 

Gen. Horace Porter, 277 Madison avenue, Nezv York. 

tHon. Clarence E. Powell (President), Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

*Hon. Richard M. Prangen (Mayor). Hornell, N. Y. 

Hon. Thomas R. Proctor, Utica, N. Y. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Peekskill, N. Y. 

tHon. A. F. Quick (President), Rhinebeck. N. Y. 

*Hfln. Daniel P. Quinn (Mayor), Watervliet, N. Y. 

*Hon. Edzvard Quirk (Mayor), Fulton, N. Y. 

Louis C. Raegener, 141 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

*Hon. George G. Raymond (Mayor), Nezv Rochellc, N. Y. 

Herman Redder, 182 William street, Nezv York. 

Edward Robinson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

William Rockefeller. 26 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

*Hon. W. J. Rockefeller (Mayor), Nezv Rochelle. N. Y. 

Maj. Gen. Charles F. Roe, 280 Broadway, Nezv York. 



List of Members 685 

Carl J. Roehr, Brooklyner Freic Presse, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Louis T. Rornaine, 68 Broad street, New York. 

*Hon. Arthur P. Rose {Mayor), Geneva, N. Y. 

tHon. A. Rowe (President), Saugerties, N. Y. 

Tlwtnas F. Ryan, 38 Nassau street. New York. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett, Tribune Building, Nezv York. 

*Hon. John K. Saguc {Mayor), Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Col. William Carv Sanger, Sangerfield, N. Y. 

*Hon. A. B. Saniry {Mayor), Little Falls, N. Y. 

George Henry Sargent, 151 Leonard street. New York. 

Col. Herbert L. Sattcrlee, 120 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn, 1286 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren, 34 Ferry street, New York. 

Jacob H. Schiff, 965 Fifth avenue, New York. 

President Jacob G. Schurman, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

Gustav H. Schzvab, 5 Broadzvay, Nezv York. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder, 10 Wall street. New York. 

Isaac N. Seligman, i IVilliani street, Nezv York. 

Louis Seligsberg, 11 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Frederick IV. Sezvard, Montrose, N. Y. 

*Hon. Daniel Shechan {Mayor), Elniira, N. Y. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan, 32 Nassau street. New York. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard, 128 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman, Yonkers, N. Y. 

/. Edzvard Simmons, 14 Nassau street, Nezv York. 

John W. Simpson, 62 Cedar street. New York. 

John J. Sinclair, i East 39th street. New York. 

*Hon. C. M. Slausen {Mayor), Binghamton. A". F. 

tHon. Isaac H. Smith (President), Peekskill, N. Y. 

*Hon. John K. Smith {Mayor), Oszvego, N. Y. 

Prof. John C. Smock, Hudson, N. Y. 

William Sohmer, i Third avenue. New York. 

Nelson S. Spencer, 27 IVilliam street, Nezv York. 

James Speyer, 257 Madison avenue, Nezv York. 

Hon. John H. Starin, 9 West 38^/2 street, Nezv York. 

Isaac Stern, 32 West 23d street, New York. 

Hon. Louis Stern, 993 Fifth avenue. New York. 

Francis Lynde Stetson, 15 Broad street, Nezv York. 

Louis Stewart, 4 Washington square, New York. 

James Stillnian, 52 Wall street, Nezv York. 

tHon. L. L. Stillman (President), Red Hook, N. Y. 

Henry L. Stoddard, 203 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 5 JVest 76th street, Nezv York. 

tHon. F. Herbert Sutherland (President), Coxsackie, N. Y. 

George R. Sutherland, 40 Wall street. New York. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro, 280 Broadway, New York. 

Stevenson Tavlor, 123 West 8sth street, New York. 

tHon. Fred. W. Titus (President), Athens, N. Y. 

Henry R. Towne, 9 Murray street. New York. 

Irving Townsend, M.D.. 62 West 51st street. New York. 

Spencer Trask, 52 IVilliam street, N^czv York. 

tHon. Arthur C. Tucker (President), LTpper Nyack, N. Y. 

C. Y. Turner, 130 Carnegie Hall, New York. 

Albert Ulmann, in Broadway, New York. 

Lieut. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt, Army and Navy Club, Nezv York. 

Alfred G. T'^anderbilt, Grand Central Station, Nezv York. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 15 Washington square, Nezv York. 



686 List of Members 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D., Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 
Warner Van Norden, 786 Fifth avenue, New York. 
William B. Van Rensselaer, Albany, N. Y. 
*Hon. Horace S. Van Voast (Mayor), Schenectady, N. Y. 
John R. Van Wormer, 32 East 42d street, New York. 
J. Leonard Varick, 257 Broadway, New York. 
William G. Ver Planck, 149 Broadway, New York. 
tHon. C. E. Vredenburg (President), Mechanicville, N. Y. 
Hon. E. B. Vreeland, Salamanca, N. Y. 
Col. John IV. Vrooman, Union League Club, Nezv York. 
Hon. Charles G. F. Wahle, 220 Broadway, New York. 
Capt. Aaron Ward, U. S. N., Army Building, New York. 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward. Albany, N. Y. 
Hon. W. L. Ward, Portchester, N. Y. 
*Hon. Nathan A. Warren (Mayor), Yonkers, N. Y. 
tHon. Robert B. Waters (President), Green Island, N. Y. 
tHon. Anthony J. Weaver (President), Waterford, N. Y. 
tHon. E. L. Wemple (President), West Haverstraw, N. Y. 
Charles W. Wetmore, 30 Broad street, New York. 
Edmund Wetmore, 34 Pine street, Nezv York. 
Henry W. Wetmore, 120 Broadway, New York. 
*Hon. Thomas Wheeler (Mayor). Utica, N. Y. 
Hon. Andreiv D. White, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Hon. J. DuPratt White, Nyack, N. Y. 
Fred. C. Whitney, 225 West 70th street, New York. 
Hon. William R. Wiilco.x, Tribune Building, Nezv York. 
Charles R. Wilson, Mutual Life Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Edward C. Wilson, Peekskill, N. Y. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, 157 West ygth street, Nezv York. 
tHon. John Wirth (President), North Tarrytown, N. Y. 
Hon. John S. Wise, 20 Broad street. New York. 
Charles B. Wolffram, 22 North William street. New York. 
tHon. Edward J. Wood (President), Stillwater, N. Y. 
J. S. Wood, 25 South Fourth avenue. Mount Vernon, N. Y. 
Maj. Gen. Leonard A. Wood, LT. S. A., Governor's Island, N. Y. 
Gen. Stezvart 7.. Woodford. 18 Wall street, Nezv York. 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, care Sherry's, 44th street and Broad- 
way, Nezv York. 
W. E. Woolley, Broadway and 67th street, New York. 
James A. Wright, g Broadway, New York. 
*Hon. Frederick M. Young (Mayor), Gloversznlle, N. Y. 
Hon. Richard Young, 87 Lincoln road, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
tHon. F. G. Zinsser (President), Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

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Dr. A. Bredius, No. 6 Prinsegracht, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft, No. 609 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, The Nether- 
lands. 

Hon. D. Hudig, No. 105 Wijn Haven, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr. W. Martin, No. 26 Emmastraat, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W. Moes, No. 85 Franz von Mierisstraat, Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands. 



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Headquarters: Tribune Building, New York 

Telephones: Beekman, 3097 and 3098 



President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting President. 
182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Assistants to tKe Secretary 

Mr. George N. Moran, Mr. David T. Wells. 

General Executive Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



689 



(Address, New York City unless otherwise stated) 
(Revised to Jan. 7, 1909) 

Aeronautics : Hon. James M. Beck, 44 Wall Street. 

Art and Historical Exhibits : J. Pierpont Morgan, 23 Wall 
Street ; Sub-Committee on Art Exhibits, Hon. Robert 
W. de Forest ; Sub-Committee on Historical Exhibits, 
Dr. George F. Kunz. 

Aquatic Sports : Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Pier 19, North 
River. 

Auditing: Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 280 Broadway. 

Badges, Flag and Poster : August F. Jaccaci, 7 West 43d 
Street. 

Banquet: Francis Lynde Stetson, 15 Broad Street. 

Carnival and Historical Parades: Herman Ridder, 182 
William Street. 

Children's Festivals: Hon. Samuel Parsons, 1133 Broad- 
way. 

" Clermont " : Eben E. Olcott, Desbrosses Street Pier. 

Contracts : Hon. M. Linn Bruce, 18 Wall street. 

Decorations and Reviewing Stands : Charles R. Lamb, 23 
6th Avenue. 

Dedications: Hon. Warren Higley, 165 Broadway. 

Executive : Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street ; 
John E. Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 

General Commemorative Exercises : President Jacob 
Gould Schurman, Ithaca. 

"Half Moon": Hon. Herbert L. Satterlee, 120 Broadway. 

Historical : Samuel V. Hoffman, 258 Broadway. 

Hospitality: Dr. George C. Batcheller, 696 Broadway. 

Hudson River Scenery : Hon. Alton B. Parker, 3 South 
William Street. 

Illuminations : Hon. Wm. Berri, 526 Fulton Street, Brook- 
lyn. 

Invitations : Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 60 Wall Street. 

Inwood Park: John E. Parsons, 52 William Street. 

Law and Legislation: Francis Lynde Stetson. 15 Broad' 
Street. 



690 

Lectures : Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 500 Park Avenue. 
Medal : Henry W. Cannon, 10 Wall Street. 
Memorials: Tunis G. Bergen, 55 Liberty Street. 
Military Parade: Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 280 Broadway. 
Music Festival : Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, 45 Cedar Street. 
Naval Parade : Chairmanship vacant. Vice-Chairman, 

Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Pier 19, North River. 
Nominations: Theodore Fitch, 120 Broadway. 
Official Literary Exercises: Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson, 157 

West 79th Street. 
Patriotic Societies : Edmund Wetmore, 34 Pine Street. 
Plan and Scope : Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, Montrose, N. Y. 
Public Health and Convenience : Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 

181 West 73d Street. 
Public Safety: Hon. William McCarroll, 154 Nassau Street. 
Reception : Hon. Seth Low, 30 East 64th Street. 
Religious Services: Hon. John G. Agar, 31 Nassau Street. 
Transportation : Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row. 
*LTpper Hudson: (Chairmanship to be filled.) 
Verplanck's Point Park : Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Peekskill. 
Ways and Means: Herman Ridder, 182 William Street. 

*On Januar}' 7, the Executive Committee voted to merge into 
one committee, called the Upper Hudson Committee, the various 
separate committees formerly appointed to have charge of func- 
tions at and above Newburgh. The Upper Hudson Committee is 
to select its own chairman, and to divide itself into such sub- 
committees as it deems advisable. 



691 



i|uJifi0tt-3Fult0n (Hfkbratuiit Olnmmtafiuin 



Revised to January 7, 1909 



The names of Trustees are set in italics. 

The names of the Mayors of the 46 cities of the State, who are 
members of the Commission and Trustees by virtue of their office, 
are designated thus (*). 

The names of the Presidents of 38 incorporated villages along 
the Hudson river who are members of the Commisson by virtue of 
their office are designated thus (t). 



Abraham Abraham. 

*Hon. James N. Adam. 

Edward D. Adams. 

Herbert Adams. 

Jolm G. Agar. 

Richard B. Aldcroflft, Jr. 

Alphonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Charles H. Armatage. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 

Geo. Wm. Ballou. 

Hon. Theodore M. Banta. 

*Hon. Wm. H. Barker. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett. 

George C. Batcheller. 

Constr. Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

Hon. James M. Beck. 

*Hon. F. Beehc. 

August Belmont. 

tHon. M. S. Beltzhoover. 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. IVilliam Bcrri. 

Hon. John Bigelow. 

Hon. Frank S. Black. 

Hon. E. W. Bloomingdale. 

Henry L. Bogert. 

George C. Boldt. 

Reginald Pelham Bolton. 

Hon. David A. Boody. 

Hon. A. J. Boulton. 

tHon. Horace W. Boyd. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 

Com. Herbert L. Bridgman. 

George V. Brozver. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 

Edward P. Bryan. 

William L. Bull. 

tHon. D. A. Bullard. 



iHon. Clifford Bush. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
*Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Howard Carroll. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. 
tHon. J. H. Clarkson. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Frederick J. Collier. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook 
lSi.*Hon. Charles W. Cool. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
*Hon. IV. P. Crane. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
IVilliam J. Curtis. 
Robert Fulton Cutting. 
Frederick B. Dalzell. 
*Hon. Jacob H. Dealy. 
Hon. Robert W. De Forest. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
*Ho)i. Eugene de Kleist. 
James de la Montanye. 
Elias S. A. de Lima. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
George G. DeWitt. 
Cleveland H. Dodge. 
Henry M. Doremus. 
Dr. James Douglas. 
*Ho)i. Anthony C. Douglas. 
tHon. James H. Doyle. 
Hon. William Draper. 
Hon. John F. Dry den. 



692 



List of Members 



Capt. Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Eaiiics. 

*Hon. Hiram H. Edgcrton. 

George Ehret. 

*Hon. Meyer Einstein. 

tHon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet. 

Matthew C. Ely. 

Hon. Arthur English. 

Most. Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Eassett. 

Barr Fcrree. 

Morris P. Ferris. 

Stuyvesant Fish. 

TJieodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

tHon. James F. FitzGerald. 

Hon. James J. Fitzgerald. 

Frederick S. Flower. 

tHon. John T. Flynn. 

*Hon. Alan C. Fobes. 

*Hon. JVm. Follette. 

Thomas Powell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles .S". Francis. 

Commander W. B. Franklin. 

tHon. James L. Freeborn. 

tHon. Lyman C. B'rench. 

Henrv C. Frick. 

*Hon. C. A. Frost. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould. 

George J. Gould. 

Mai. Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A. 

Capt. Richard H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. John W. Griggs. 

tHon. John Gross. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edivard Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

*Hoit. John Hannon. 

""Hon. M. D. Hanson. 

George A. Hcarn. 

Arthur H. Hearn. 

Lieut. Chas. E. Heitman, U. S. N. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

tHon. C. W. Higley. 

Hon. Warren Higlev. 

Hon. David B. Hill.' 

Thos. J. Hillcry. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 



Samuel Vcrplanck Hoffman. 
James P. Holland. 
Willis Holly. 
William Homan. 
*Hon. William D. Floive. 
Hon. Henry E. Howland. 
Colgate Hovt. 
Dr. LeRoy W. Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 
Flon. Henry Hudson. 
Walter G. Hudson. 
tHon. John L. Hughes. 
*Hon. Francis M. Hugo. 
William T. Hunt. 
Archer M. Huntington. 
T. D. H uniting. 
August F. Jaccaci. 
Col. William Jay. 
tHon. Roswell S. Judson. 
tHon. Irving J. Justus. 
Jacob Katz. 
James Kearney. 
*ITon. Albert K^essinger. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
*Hon. C. August Koenig. 
Dr. George F. Kunz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Eamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
*Hon. Robert Laicrcnce. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipsiger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindcnthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Sefh Lozv. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
tHon. Tliomas Lynch. 
Col. Arthur MacArthur. 
tHon. Joel D. Madden. 
*'//0H. W. H. Mandcvillc. 
*Hon. Elias P. Mann. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
*Hon. Grove T. Maxon. 
Hon. William McCarroll. 
*Hon. George B. McClellan. 
*Hon. Benjamin McClung. 
Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. John J. McCook. 
Donald McDonald. 
tHon. Charles McElrov. 
William J. McKay. 



List of Members 



693 



John J. McKelvey. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
tHon. John McLindon. 
*Hun. Thomas A. McNainara. 
Rear Admiral George IV. Mel- 
ville, U. S. N. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Capt. Jacob IV. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills, U. S. A. 
Ogden Mills. 
*Hon. W. B. Mooers. 
J. Fierpoiit Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
tHon. Dennis Moynihan. 
Hon. Franklin Murphy. 
tHon. Vincent A. Murray. 
William C. Muschenheim. 
tHon. W. H. Myers. 
*HoH. Jared T. Newman. 
Nathan Newman. 
Charles H. Niehaus. 
Ludivig Nisscii. 
Hon. Lewis Nixon. 
Charles R. Norman. 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien. 
William R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcott. 
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Dr. Edward L. Partridge. 
Commander R. E. Pearj', U. S. N. 
Bayard L. Peck. 
Gordon H. Peck. 
Hon. George W. Perkins. 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 
George A. Plimpton. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 
Grn. Horace Porter. 
tHon. Clarence E. Powell. 
*Hon. Richard M. Prangen. 
Hon. John D. Prince. 
Hon. Thomas R. Proctor. 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley. 
tHon. A. F. Quick. 
*Hon. Daniel P. Quinn. 
*Hon. Edzvard Quirk. 
Lotus C. Raegener. 
John H. Ramsay. 
*Ho}t. George G. Raymond. 



Her)nan Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

*Hon.W. J. Rockefeller. 

Maj. Gen. Charles P. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

*Hon. Arthur P. Rose. 

tHon. A. Rowe. 

Tliomas F. Ryan. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett. 

*Hon. John K. Sague. 

Col. William Gary Sanger. 

*//07j. A. B. Santry. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren. 

Jacob H. Schif¥. 

Pres. Jacob Gould Schurtnan. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Wallace M. Scudder. 

Isaac A'. Seligtiian. 

Louis Seligsberg. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward. 

*Hon. Daniel Shcehan. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman. 

/. Edzvard Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

John J. Sinclair. 

*Hon. C. M. Slauscn. 

tHon. Isaac H. Smith. 

*Hon. John K. Smith. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

*Hon. Henry F. Snyder. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Lsaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

tHon. L. L. Stillman. 

Hon.. Edward C. Stokes. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

tHon. F. Herbert Sutherland. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

Hon. H. B. Swartwout. 

Stevenson Tavlor. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson. 

tHon. Fred. W. Titus. 



694 



List of Members 



Henry R. Towne. 

Irving Townsend, M. D. 

Spencer Trask. 

tHon. Arthur C. Tucker. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lieut. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. 

Warner Van Norden. 

William B. Van Rensselaer. 

*Hon. Horace S. Van Voast. 

John R. Van Wormer. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

William G. Ver Planck. 

Hon. Foster M. Voorhees. 

tHon. C. E. Vredenburg. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Charles G. F. Wahle. 

Capt. Aaron Ward. U. S. N. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

*Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

tHon. Robert B. Waters. 

tHon. Anthony J. Weaver. 



tHon. E. L. Wemple. 

Hon. George T. Werts. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

*Hon. Thomas Wheeler. . 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Hon. J. DuPratt White. 

Fred. C. Whitney. 

Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Charles R Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

tHon. John Wirth. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

H. Otto Wittpenn. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

tHon. Edward J. Wood. 

J. S. Wood. 

Maf. Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A. 

Gen. Stezvart L. Woodford. 

Hon. Timotlw L. Woodruff. 

W. E. Woolley. 

James A. Wright. 

*Hon. Frederick M. Young. 

Hon. Richard Young. 

tHon. F. G. Zinsser. 



^Pnrrtgn QlnrrpapnnJjfnt QlnunrtUnra 



Dr. A. Bredius, No. 6 Prinsegracht, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft, No. 609 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, The Nether- 
lands. 

Hon. D. Hudig, No. 105 Wijn Haven, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr. W. Martin, No. 26 Emmastraat, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W. Moes, No. 85 Franz von Micrisstraat, Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands. i 



695 

Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

December 23, 1908. 

The thirty-third meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters in 
the Tribune Building-, No. 154 Nassau street, New York 
City, Wednesday, December 23, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

Roll Call. 

Present: Acting President Herman Ridder, presiding, 
and Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. William Berri, Mr. Wil- 
liam J. Curtis, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Theodore 
Fitch, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Gen. Horatio 
C. King, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Hon. William McCarroll, 
Captain Jacob W. Miller, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Mr. Louis C. 
Raegener, Major General Charles F. Roe, Mr. Henry W. 
Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Francis Lynde Stet- 
son, Mr. Edmund Wetmore, and Gen. James Grant Wilson ; 
also Naval Constructor William J. Baxter, U. S. N., present 
by invitation. 

Absentees Excused. 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. George V. 
Brower, Mr. Henry W. Cannon, Hon. Seth Low, Rear Ad- 
miral Geo. W. Melville, Mr. Frank D. Millet, Hon. George 
W. Perkins, Hon. Thomas R. Proctor, Hon. George G. 
Raymond, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, President Jacob Gould 
Schurman, Col. John W. Vrooman, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
and Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved imth Corrections. 

The minutes of the November meetings having been 
printed and sent to all the members, were approved with 



696 Minutes of Trustees 

the following corrections : On page 676, in list of members 
of North Hudson Committee, insert name of Hon. W. J. 
Rockefeller. On page 684, in second line from the bottom, 
change " New Rochelle " to " Rensselaer." On pages 667 
and 682 change James A. Hearn to Arthur H. Hearn. 

Deaths of Cominandcr Loring and Admiral Coglilaii. 

The Acting President announced with great regret, the 
death of Commander Charles H. Loring, U. S. N., which 
occurred February 5, 1907, but of which information had 
only been received during the past week ; and the death of 
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., which occurred 
December 5, 1908. 

Captain IMiller, after paying tribute to the memory of 
Ad-niral Coghlan as a naval officer, a citizen, and a personal 
friend, offered the following resolutions : 

Resolved, That in the death of Rear Admiral Joseph B. 
Coghlan, U. S. N., this Commission has lost one of its 
most valued members. As Trustee, Vice President and 
Chairman of the Naval Parade Committee, Admiral 
Coghlan labored with the same devotion to duty as when, 
in the Naval service, through all grades from subaltern to 
Flag rank, he studied to fit himself for each succeeding 
position ; until, with Dewey at Manila, he shared the glory 
of that famous victory. His patriotism was of the highest 
order, his civic pride great, while his wit and geniality 
endeared him to all his associates. 

Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to 
his widow as a slight token of sympathy, and in recognition 
of a brave officer who served his country well. 

The resolutions were unanimously adopted by a rising 
vote. 

Treasurer's Report. 

The report of the Treasurer. Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, was 
read as follows : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, 
Gentlemen : I have the honor to report the condition of 
the $12,500 State Fund drawn under Chapter 325 of the 
Laws of 1906 as follows : 



December 23, 1908 697 

DEBIT. 

Balance on hand November 20, 1908 $4,460 99 

CREDIT. 

By paid on approved vouchers : 

96. Miss J. A. Cooke $2 70 

97. E. H. Hall 250 00 

98. Miss J. A. Cooke i 20 

99. Polhemus Printing Co 325 

100. J. B. Lyon Co 52 33 

309 48 

Balance on hand December 23, 1908.... $4,151 51 



In addition to the above we have available in the State 
Treasury the reappropriation of $12,500 made by Chapter 
466 of the Laws of 1908, and the new appropriation of 
$150,000 made by the same law. 

Yours respectfully, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The following- bills were approved for payment subject to 
examination and approval by the Auditing Committee : 

W. J. Baxter, disbursements $17 62 

J. B. Coghlan. disbursements 68 00 

J. J. Conlon, lettering door 4 55 

J. A. Cooke, mimeographing. 10 15 

De-Fi Manufacturing Co., i box carbon paper 3 50 

Finn Bros., furniture 88 75 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $80 69 

E. H. Hall, salary, December 300 00 

— 380 69 

Joseph Hawkes, copying- pictures of Half 

Moon, etc 5 40 

J. B. Lyon Co., envelopes, letterheads, etc. ... 83 49 

Geo. N. Moran, disbursements. . . ., $14 07 
Geo. N. Moran, salary. December. 291 66 

305 7Z 

William 'Parry, salary, December 625 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery 15 44 

Printers Ink Pub. Co., i directory 10 00 





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F. A. Ringler Co., engravings $8 50 

Henry Romeike, press clippings, September, 
October, November 

A. H. Stoddard, salary, December 

Typewriter Exchange, rental of two type- 
writers, December 

Lillie Vreeland, mimeographing 

David T. Wells, salarv. December 



N'oiniiiatcd for Membership on Coimiiissioii. 

Mr. Fitch. Chairman of the Nominating Committee, pre- 
sented a report recommending that the following named 
gentlemen be nominated to the Mayor for appointment on 
the Commission : 

Marcns Benjamin, A. M., Ph.D., Sc.D.. author, editor of 
the United States National Museum, and member of juries 
of awards at various expositions. No. 689 West End ave- 
nue, New York, and No. 1703 O street N. W.. Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Attorney-at-Law, and Secretary 
of the Holland Society. No. 99 Nassau street. New York. 

Edward L. Partridge. M.D.. Secretary of the Associa- 
tion for the Protection of the Highlands. No. 19 Fifth 
Avenue, New York. 

Hon. Samuel R. Thayer, late United States Minister to 
the Netherlands, Union League Club, New York. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson, formerly Master in the United 
States Navy, lawyer, member of Boston Common Council, 
aide-de-camp on staff of Governor of New Jersey, and now 
a financier at No. 41 Wall Street, New York. 

The report was received and the recommendations 

adopted. 

Gcii. Wilson Elected a Vice-President. 

Mr. Fitch also presented a report nominating Gen. James 
Grant Wilson as Vice-President in place of Admiral Cogh- 
lan, deceased. 



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The report was received and by l)allot, duly cast. Gen. 
Wilson was unanimously elected. 

Trustees Elected. 

^Ir. Fitch also presented a report recommending the elec- 
tion of Major-General Leonard Wood, U. S. A., and 
Gen. Howard Carroll as Trustees to fill vacancies. 

The report was received and by ballot, duly cast, Gen. 
Wood and Gen. Carroll were unanimously elected. 

ResigJiatioii of Admiral Goodrich Tabled. 

The following letter from Rear Admiral Goodrich, 
U.S.N., was read : 

NAVY YARD^ NEW YORK, 

December 14, 1908. 
INIr. Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Building, New York City. 
My Dear Sir : I have received your courteous notification 
of my appointment to the Naval Parade Committee as 
member, and beg to^ say that inasmuch as I shall be cj[uitting 
this command in a few months, not to be present at the 
time of the celebration, I think it fairer to you to ask to 
resign as a member of the General and Special Committees. 
As soon as I know who my successor is to be, I will send 
his name to you, that he may be asked to take the place that 
I shall be unable to fill. 

Yours very truly, 
C. F. Goodrich, 

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, 
Commandant Navy Yard and Station. 

As an expression of the unanimous desire of the Trus- 
tees that Admiral Goodrich remain both a member of the 
Commission and a member of the Naval Parade Committee, 
his resignation was laid on the table. 

Assistants Excepted from Civil Service Examination. 

The Secretary read the following communication from 
the State Civil Service Commission : 



700 Minutes of Trustees 

STATE OF NEW YORK, 
STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, 

Albany, December lo, 1908. 
Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Building-, New York City. 

Dear Sir: I have the honor to inform you that at a meet- 
ing of the State Civil Service Commission held yesterday, 
your communication of December fourth, relative to ex- 
ception from examination of certain persons for special 
services with your Commission, was considered, and on 
motion the following resolution adopted : 

Resolved : That the following named persons, to be em- 
ployed by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission in 
the positions stated, be and hereby are excepted from 
examination under the provisions of civil service rule 
Vni-9, it appearing that said persons are engaged in pri- 
vate business, and that the services to be rendered are 
professional, technical or expert, and of occasional and 
exceptional character ; provided, however, that the com- 
pensation shall not exceed the limit indicated in each case : 

William Parry, general executive assistant, compensation 
at the rate of $625 per month, but not to exceed $7,000. 

A. H. wStoddard, captain of the carnival parade, compen- 
sation at the rate of $416.66 per month, but not to exceed 
$5,000. with an additional allowance of not to exceed $1,000 
for artists' help. 

George N. Moran, secretarial assistant, cmupensation at 
the rate of $291.66 per month, but not to exceed $3,500. 

David T. Wells, secretarial assistant, compensation at the 
rate of $208.33 P*^^ month, but not to exceed $2,500. 
Yours very respectfully, 

John C. Birdseye, 

Secretary. 

Changes in Upper Hudson Connniftees Pro hosed. 

The Assistant Secretary stated that he had received a 
letter from Mayor Hudson, of Hudson, Chairman of the 
Local Celebrations Committee, dated December 22, tqo8, 
embodying an important suggestion concerning the celebra- 
tion along the Upper Hudson. As a preface to the letter, 
the Assistant Secretary stated that on Saturday, Decem- 



December 23, 1908 701 

ber 12, by invitation of Mayor Hudson and Mayor Sague, 
the latter of Poughkeepsie, he had been present at a con- 
ference which was held in the Nelson House, Poughkeepsie, 
and which was attended by about thirty gentlemen repre- 
senting Newburgh, Troy and the communities between. 
Some were members of this Commission and some were not. 
Mayor Sague entertained the company at dinner, after 
which was held a business meeting, over which Col. Mac- 
Arthur of Troy presided. The conference voted to make 
two recommendations to this Commission : 

1st, that the naval parade, or so much of it as may be 
able, instead of proceeding from Newburgh to Troy on 
Saturday, October 2d, make one day halts successively at 
Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Catskill, Hudson, Albany and 
Troy, thus enabling those comniunities to make the fac- 
similes of the historic vessels, the " Half Moon " and 
" Clermont," the focus of their local celebrations. 

2d, that the Commission request from the Legislature 
an appropriation of $150,000 for use at and above New- 
burgh, in the following proportions : Newburgh $50,000, 
Poughkeepsie $25,000, Kingston $10,000, Catskill $5,000, 
Hudson $15,000, Albany $22,500, and Troy $22,500, this 
request to be coupled with the indorsement of the Com- 
mission's request for $150,000 more for use at New York. 

The second recommendation would probably be pre- 
sented to the Committee on Law and Legislation in due 
course. With respect to the first recommendation, the 
Assistant Secretary desired to offer two resolutions after 
reading Mayor Hudson's letter. 

The Assistant Secretary also said that at the meeting in 
Poughkeepsie he was asked to explain the duties of the 
North Hudson, Old Home Week and Local Celebrations 
Committees and had said that he saw, in the light of that 
meeting, that it might be desirable to remodel them ; that 
the formulation of the plan of a gi'eat celebration like this 
was a process of evolution; and that as the Commission's 
ideas became clearer, the plans became more specialized 
and better adapted to the ends in view. 



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The following letter was then read : 

mayor's office, 
Hudson, N. Y., December 22, 190S. 

Edward H. Hall, Assistant Secretary, 

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

Tribune Building, New York. 

My Dear Mr. Hall : In reply to your favor, I will be 
unable to attend the meeting of the Board of Trustees on 
the 23d, much to my regret. 

In talking with several members of the Local Celebration 
Committee, they favor recommending to the Commission 
tne encouragement of all cities, villages and hamlets on the 
Hudson River between New York and Newburgh, to hold 
local celebrations as best suits their local conditions, but 
more especially on the day and hour when the Flotilla 
passes to and from Newburgh. We would also recommend 
the extension of the Celebration the second week embracing 
the six counties north of Newburgh, assigning a day at 
each city — the county seat of each county — for all the 
boats that can proceed up the river to the head of Naviga- 
tion, stopping at Poughkeepsie, the county seat of Dutchess 
County on Monday ; Kingston, the county seat of Ulster 
County on Tuesday; Catskill, the county seat of Greene 
County, on Wednesday; Hudson, the county seat of Colum- 
bia County on Thursday ; Albany, the Capital of our great 
State and the county seat of Albany County on Friday; 
Troy, the county seat of Rensselaer County on Saturday. 
The cities of Rensselaer, Watervliet, Cohoes, Waterford, 
Schenectady and all places north and west would join with 
Albany and Troy in closing the celebration with credit due 
the State and your Commission. 

The people of the six cities and counties named are awake 
to the true sense of this important event. It has been sug- 
gested that each of the six cities erect monuments on the 
bank of the river of historical interest in each locality. Troy 
could erect a statue of Van Rensselaer, who obtained the 
land grant for that section ; Albany could honor the name 
of its first Mayor, Peter Schuyler ; Hudson erect a 
monument to the discoverer of the River; Catskill, that 
of Rip Van Winkle ; Kingston, Gov. Clinton, and Pough- 
keepsie, that of Robert Fulton. These statues would 
beautify the river and cause each city to give more and 
better care to the river front, would be educators to the 
" world travel " on the Hudson River and would tell the 



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story to future generations of the 300th anniversary, and 
cause the names and legends of the several subjects to live 
for all generations to come. 

The organization formed by the officials of the seven 
up-River cities promises to become a permanent organiza- 
tion for mutual protection to cope with the various subjects, 
such as " Sewerage in the Hudson River," pure water, 
better ice, contagious diseases, police protection, better 
streets, good roads, etc., aiding the Commissioner of Health 
in his great work, and the historical societies to protect the 
points of interest and beautify the banks of the River. 

This association named, embracing the seven cities, is 
worthy of all trust and should become a part of this Com- 
mission in history, in performing its labors in the interest 
of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, and the interest it will 
continue to hold in the welfare of the River and its future 
protection and improvements in deep water, etc. 

If you will frame up some suitable resolutions for the 
Plan and Scope Committee to adopt, embracing the several 
cities and days assigned to each in the general plans, it will 
undoubtedly cover all, in connection with the committees 
named and work assigned to each. 

With best wishes, I am. 

Yours very truly, 

Henry Hudson. 

Proposition for Local Days North of A'civbnrgh Referred 
to Plan and Scope Committee. 

The Assistant Secretary then moved that Mayor Hud- 
son's recommendation that Monday, October 4, be devoted 
to ceremonies at Poughkeepsie ; Tuesday, October 5, at 
Kingston ; Wednesday, October 6, at Catskill ; Thursday, 
October 7, at Hudson ; Friday, October 8, at Albany, and 
Saturday, October 9, at Troy, and that the North Hudson 
naval parade stop at those places on the dates named, be 
adopted. 

Mr. Stetson moved to amend, by referring the matter to 
the Plan and Scope Committee with power. 

The amendment was accepted by the mover and the 
motion as amended was adopted. 



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Changes in North Hudson Committees Referred to Plan 
and Scope Committee. 

The Assistant Secretary also moved that the President 
be authorized to discharge the North Hudson, Old Home 
Week, Local Celebrations and Newburgh Ceremonies com- 
mittees as at present constituted, and to appoint in their 
stead the following- Committees: North Hudson Naval 
Parade, Newburgh Ceremonies, Poughkeepsie Ceremonies, 
Kingston Ceremonies, Catskill Ceremonies, Hudson Cere- 
monies, Albany Ceremonies, and Troy Ceremonies. 

Mr. Stetson read a letter which he had received from 
Mr. Wortman, Secretary of the Conference to which the As- 
sistant Secretary had referred; also the draft of the reply 
which he would send unless the Trustees saw some objec- 
tion. With reference to the motion before the board, it was 
his opinion that there should not be a separate Committee 
for each locality, but that there should be one committee 
which could divide itself into its own subcommittees. He 
thought that by the latter arrangement, there would be a 
greater probability of the local celebrations being of a uni- 
form standard of excellence. 

After some further remarks, Mr. Stetson moved that the 
subject be referred to the Plan and Scope committee with 
power. Carried. 

Adviser to Designer of Pageant Recommended. 
The Secretary stated that progress was being made by 
Mr. Parry and Mr. Stoddard in making the preliminary 
designs or " plates " for the Carnival and Historical 
Parades but that there was evident need for some further 
expert advice. The first five plates prepared, although 
beautiful and elaborate, were not, as to their subject-matter, 
appropriate to this celebration. He had therefore advised 
Mr. Parry and Mr. Stoddard to place themselves promptly 
in touch with the Historical Committee and to make designs 
which would meet with its approval. This course was now 
being followed with better results, but Mr. Parry had been 
in conference with Mr. Edward G. Unitt, an artist, scholar 



December 23, 1908 705 

and historian, and was satisfied that if the Commission 
could afiford to employ him in an advisory capacity, it would 
greatly facilitate this important branch of the work. He 
would not be employed by the month or the year, but as a 
consultant, at such compensation in the gross as might he 
deemed reasonable. 

Mr. Stetson inquired what the compensation would be. 

The Secretary replied that he did not know exactly, but 
was sure it would be reasonable. 

Mr. Stetson hesitated to vote for the engagement of such 
conspicuous services in view of the very competent Histori- 
cal Committee which we had. 

After some further discussion and suggestions by various 
members, the Secretary moved that the subject of employ- 
ing some person in an advisory capacity in connection with 
the designing of the floats and tableaux for the Carnival 
and Historical parades be referred to the Historical Commit- 
tee with power. Carried. 

Proposed Circular of Official Illiiuiiiiators. 

The Secretary read the proof-sheets of a letter which the 
Pain Manufacturing Company, the official illuminators, 
desired to be sent out on the letterhead of the Commission 
and signed by the Chairman of the Committee on Illumina- 
tions, and which he had just received. 

Mr. Berri, Chairman of the Committee on Illuminations, 
stated that owing to the lateness of the arrival of this proof, 
he had not been able to revise it and he believed it should 
be modified. The theory of the letter was to present the 
illumination proposition, in accordance with the recom- 
mendation of the Plan and Scope Report and the approval 
of the Trustees, in such a way as to prevent the Commis- 
sion from being responsible for any accident or anything 
that the Pain Manufacturing Company might do. He was 
satisfied that the company could best carry out the pro- 
posed illumination. The Commission incurred no expense 
in connection with the Pain Company, except possibly for 
two fires, and those had not yet been contracted for. 



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Mr. Raeg-ener said that he presumed that the Plan and 
Scope Committee had given the matter careful considera- 
tion in appointing the Pain Manufacturing Company official 
illuminators, but at first thought it reminded him of some 
specifications in city contracts which required the use of 
a particular kind of stone for a building. He was afraid 
the Commission might be criticised for favoritism. 

Mr. Berri explained some of the reasons for making this 
arrangement, which were given more fully at the meeting 
of October 28 (pp. 604-607 and 615-616 at which Mr. 
Raegener was not present, after which Mr. Raegener with- 
drew his remarks, saying that he saw no other way in which 
the matter could have been done. 

Reports of Progress. 

The Acting President then called upon the Chairmen of 
the various committees for reports, and brief reports of 
progress were made by the following committees in addi- 
tion to the fuller reports from other committees mentioned 
hereafter: 

Aquatic Sports, Captain Miller. 

Carnival and Historical Parades, Mr. Ridder. 

Children's Festivals, Mr. Samuel Parsons. 

" Half Moon," Mr. Bergen, in the absence of Col. Sat- 
terlee. 

Hudson River Scenery, Mr. Gregory for Judge Parker. 

Official Literary Exercises, Gen. Wilson. 

Report of Sitb-Coiniiilttee on Art Exhibits. 

Mr. de Forest, chairman of the sub-committee on Art 
Exhibits, made the first formal report of that committee. 
He said that the committee had arranged with the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art to set aside sufficient space next 
year for an exhibition of art in commemoration of the 
anniversaries of the two events to be celebrated. It was 
proposed to observe the Hudson side of the celebration by 
an exhibition of Dutch art. As to the Fulton side, it was 
proposed to have an American-colonial exhibition, not 



December 23, 1908 707 

merely of pictures by a few great artists, but to include 
some of the finest products of what are generally under- 
stood by the expression " arts and crafts." It was in con- 
templation to fit up one or more rooms in colonial style, 
with pictures and all the adjuncts of an ornamental room 
of the times — the very finest American silver, American 
furniture, and whatever pertained to the finest and most 
artistic rooms of the period. Mr. J. P. Morgan, he said, had 
consented to send over to this exhibition from his foreign 
collections any of his pictures that may be germane. With 
that example, it was thought that others would follow. He 
thought it possible that the idea of hanging the American 
pictures in a room embellished with American furniture and 
like objects might be extended to the Dutch pictures. The 
paintings of the Dutch school would, he thought, be more 
attractive if suitably environed. 

Dr. Kuiic Added to Art Exhibits Suh-Coimnittec. 

Mr. de Forest then spoke of the close relation between 
the Art Exhibits and the Historical Exhibits, and from 
that point of view he expressed the desire to have 
Dr. Kunz. chairman of the sub-committee on Historical Ex- 
hibits, a member of his sub-committee on Art Exhibits. 

Mr. de Forest's report was received ; and, acting upon 
his suggestion, the Acting President appointed Dr. Kunz 
a member of the sub-committee on Art Exhibits. 

Badges, Flag and Poster — $500 for Poster Design. 

Mr. Jaccaci, chairman of the Committee on Badges, Flag 
and Poster, reported that his committee had held meetings 
since it was appointed November 30 and had made ex- 
cellent progress. It was the Committee's view that while 
the badges, flag and poster should be the best obtainable, 
there should be some harmonious relation between them, 
and that a uniform scheme of colors should be the connect- 
ing link. The Committee therefore recommended that the 
otncial colors of the flag be those of the Dutch flag, under 
which Henry Hudson sailed into these waters, namely, 



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orange, white and blue. In the center of the white field of the 
tri-color, it had been snggested to have the initials " H. F.," 
standing for Hudson and Fulton, surrounded by a wreath. 
If this general idea met with the approval of the Trustees, 
the Committee would like to have the matter left with it in 
order that it might give the details further consideration. 
The colors suggested were distinctive ; they were historical 
and liad many sentiments attached to them ; they were 
festive and gay, and they seemed to fulfill all the require- 
ments. 

As to the badges, the Committee was gathering data and 
would report more fully at another meeting. 

As to the poster, the Committee had started with the idea 
of a three-sheet or an eight-sheet poster, but the cost of 
production, the large space recpiired for display, and other 
considerations soon convinced the committee that such a 
large poster was impracticable. They therefore concluded 
that a panel poster coidd be made more artistic and would 
have more value as an advertisement. If done as it should 
be, and if made a thing of beauty, it would be put in all 
the stores and hotels not only from patriotic motives but 
also because of its decorative value. The committee recom- 
mended that it be empowered in its discretion, to employ one 
of the best artists available to make the design and that it 
be authorized to expend $500 for that purpose. He said 
that when an artist like Mr. Parrish or Mr. Pyle made a 
design for a weekly publication, he received $1,000, but he 
thought that the public spirit of such a first-class artist could 
be enlisted to make a suitable design for v$500. The added 
reputation which would come from the adoption of the 
poster would in a measure recompense the artist. 

Mr. Lamb suggested that as this is to be a New York 
celebration, the artist invited to design the poster should be 
a resident of New York. Neither of the two gentlemen 
named by Mr. Jaccaci was a resident of New York. 
Mr. Maxfield Parrish, he said, resided in Philadelphia and 
Mr. Howard Pyle in Wilmington, Delaware. While he 
entertained a high regard for the artistic ability of these 



December 23, 1908 709 

gentlemen he expressed the behef that there was first-class 
artistic talent in New York equal to the task of designing 
the Commission's poster. 

It was finally voted that the Committee be authorized to 
offer $500 for a poster design, without naming the artist in 
the resolution. 

$1,000 Authorised for Medal. 

In the absence abroad of Mr. Cannon, Chairman of the 
Medal Committee, the Assistant Secretary read from the 
minutes of that Committee as follows: 

A meeting of the Medal Committee was held on Tuesday 
evening', December 8th, at the Union League Club. Mr. 
Henr}'- W. Cannon, Chairman, presided, and those present 
were Mr. Edward D. Adams, Mr. Charles H. Niehaus, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, and Mr. C. Y. Turner. 

The following resolution was unanimously adopted : 

" Resolved, That the design for a commemorative medal, 
made by Mr. Fuchs, be accepted by this Committee and 
that the offer of Mr. Adams (minutes of meeting of Sep- 
tember 18, 1908) in which he put forward a proposal that 
the Numismatic Society pay one-half of the total cost of 
$2,000 for the design and execution of one set of dies, be 
accepted. This offer is to be accepted with the further 
understanding, pursuant to the desires of Mr. Adams, that 
the Numismatic Society shall have the right to cause to have 
struck two gold medals and 100 silver medals and that the 
Commission shall have the right to cause to be struck from 
these dies, or from any other dies that they may choose 
to have made from the original models of these dies, as 
many medals and in whatever metal they may wish but at 
the expense of the Commission. 

" It is further resolved that Mr. Adams be authorized 
and requested to proceed with all necessary arrangements 
with Mr. Fuchs in the preparation of the one set of dies 
and the striking of two gold medals and loo silver medals 
to be numbered from ' one ' up. 

" It is further resolved that this Committee recommend 
to the trustees of the Commission that $1,000 be expended 
by the Commission as its share of the expense of preparing 
the design and one set of dies for the medals and that the 
same be made payable upon the delivery of the dies to the 
Commission." 



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It was voted in accordance with the foregoing recom- 
mendation, that $i,ooo be appropriated as the Commission's 
share of the expense of cutting the dies for the medal. 

Plans of " Clcnnont" Discussed. 

Mr. Olcott, Chairman of the Committee which is to have 
charge of the " Clermont " after its construction under the 
auspices of the Naval Parade Committee, spoke in favor 
of having the " Clermont " so built that it could be pro- 
pelled by its own power. He said that it had been sug- 
gested that the " Clermont " model present simply the out- 
ward semblance of its prototype and not be a working fac- 
simile. Of that he did not approve. The engine was the 
part of the " Clermont " about which we knew most, and 
he thought it would be very unfortunate not to have the 
machinery reproduced. 

Naval Constructor Baxter of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 
who had collaborated with the late Admiral Coghlan in the 
preparation of the " Half Moon " and " Clermont " designs, 
said that at the time the people of Holland so generousiy 
assumed the task of building the " Half Moon," the Naval 
Parade Committee was possessed of such information as 
would have enabled it to build the " Half Moon " abso- 
lutelv correctlv, and a comparison of the views of that 
Committee and of the Dutch investigators showed that both 
agreed entirely. With the " Clermont," however, the Com- 
mittee had an extremely difficult task. As Admiral Coghlan 
had said many times, the " Clermont " (or " North River ") 
which went out in August, 1807. was extremely success fid 
in some ways and an extreme failure in others. During 
the winter of 1807-8 she underwent many changes. He did 
not believe that any individual or any Committee could tell 
in every detail just what the " Clermont " was in August. 
1807. The Committee has had a great deal of in format i :)n 
in regard to tlie steamers of 1808, 1809 and 1810. the 
amount of information being almost in geometrical pro- 
gression, but with respect to the boat of August, 1807. their 
investigation — maintained up to within a few days ago — 



December 23. 1908 711 

convinced them that they had completely exhausted the 
available resources. The documents which were left by 
Admiral Coghlan and which he had left in the Secretary's 
office that day would fully sustain the Committee in design- 
ing the plan which had been adopted by the Commission 
and printed in the minutes, and which, while dififerent from 
any other representation of the " Clermont," he was sure 
was nearer to the originil boat than any picture ever shown. 
With reference to the materials used in construction, the 
Committer's idea was that while the hull showed the box- 
IIkc craft with pointed ends, the engines in the interest of 
economy should be made simply of wood and painted to 
look like the iron and copper of the original. 

Mr. Stetson asked how the " Clermont " was expected 
to keep up with the procession. 

Mr. Baxter said, by towing. 

Captain Miller asked what the additional expense would 
be if the engines were built like the original. 

Constructor Baxter thought $30,000 or $40,000. 

Mr. Olcott thought it would be much less. 

As it was understood that the ]\Iaritime Association of 
New York had undertaken to build the " Clermont " and 
assume the expense, the cjuestion of the engines was left 
open for further information. 

Inwood Hill Park. 

The Secretary read the following report from the Com- 
mittee on Inwood Hill Park : 

The Inwood Hill Committee report that to come to any 
conclusion in a matter which involves so many . property 
owners, is essentially difficult. The result of their negotia- 
tions up to the present time is a material reduction in prop- 
erty holders' claims. In some cases the reduction has been 
to an amount which corresponds with the views of the 
Committee as to what is fair and reasonable. 

Three situations are pending which concern Inwoorl Hill : 

1. The extension of the Riverside Drive. 

2. The approach to the Bridge ; and 

3. The Hudson-Fulton Park. 



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In so far as property for the Park is acquired, it will 
meet the three-fold purpose. 

It will be very much against the interest of the City that 
there shall be the three schemes to be provided for sepa- 
rately; the Park scheme providing as well for the other two. 

The Committee have come to the conclusion that the 
time has been reached when it will be suitable to make an 
application to the City authorities for the acquisition of so 
much of the Hill for a Park as was defined in earlier re- 
ports to the Trustees ; those property owners who are will- 
ing to accept prices which can be approved by the Com- 
mittee or which shall be approved by the City authorities 
to be compensated at once, and should there be others 
wliose claims cannot be approved, resort to be had to con- 
demnation proceedings. If in the case of owners who 
agree, condemnation proceedings are necessary they would 
be formal. 

The property is so situated that there are material nic- 
C[ualities of value. The Committee are of the opinion that 
for that which has the best situation $2,000 a city lot is a 
fair valuation, and they are given to understand that there 
are property owners who will accept that price for property 
which has the best advantages of situation, and that owners 
of property of much less value will accept prices corre- 
spondingly reduced. 

Jno. E. Parsons. 
Geo. W. Perkins, 
W. J. Curtis, 
Henry W. Sackett, 
E. E. Olcott. 

The Secretary moved that the Inwood Hill Park Com- 
mittee be authorized to make application to the city authori- 
ties for the acquisition of the property as recommended in 
the foregoing report. 

Mr. Stetson said he hoped that the application would not 
be made until the Commission's application for money, now 
pending before the Comptroller, was acted upon. 

The matter was finally referred back to the Inwood Hill 
Park Committee with power. 



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Military Parade. 

General Roe, Chairman of the Committee on Military 
Parade, reported that his committee was prepared to hei^in 
arrangements for the Military Parade, but first desired the 
advice of the Trustees as to the scope which the parade 
should take. He said that the whole National Guard of the 
State of New York numbered about 15,500 men, and it 
would cost about $80,000 to mobilize them without pay. 
They would be here for two days. About two-thirds of 
the National Guard of the State, or about 10,000 men, were 
in Greater New York. If only the latter were turned out, 
it would cost only about $10,000 for music and horse hire. 
With the men from the naval vessels in the harbor at the 
time, the naval militia, etc., we would have a procession 
of from 15,000 to 20,000 men, at a cost of from $10,000 to 
$15,000. If we should have troops from other States, it 
would be necessary to pay for their horses and music. He 
said that the city appropriated $50,000 for the troops from 
other States at the time of the Dewey parade. He would 
like to have the Plan and Scope Committee advise his 
committee as to its views on the subject. 

Mr. Stetson said he thought that $10,000 or $15,000 was 
enough to spend on the Military Parade, and that it was 
not worth while to spend $65,000 additional for the addi- 
tional 5,000 troops. He regarded General Roe's statement 
as conclusive. 

The subject was referred to the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee for advice. 

Request for Conirneuwrativc Postage Stamps to be Urged. 

Mr. Bergen, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
presented a report wdiich was acted upon by sections as 
follows : 

As to the proposed commemorative postage stamps : 
After several consultations your Committee received from 
the Postmaster General his statement that since the De- 
partment has recently issued a new series of stamps it is 
not deemed advisable to issue the commemorative stamps 



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we ask for, especially in view of other requests of the 
kind received which have not been complied with and there- 
fore states that he cannot see his way clear to grant the 
request of the Commission. 

After brief discussion by Mr. de Forest. Mr. Seligman, 
and others, it was voted to urge the request for commemo- 
rative postage stamps. 

Couuncniorative Coinage Inexpedient. 
Air. Bergen's report continued as follows : 

As to the proposed issuance of special coins by the Gov- 
ernment for the Celebration the final letter received from 
the Secretary of the Treasury is to the effect that he now 
deems it necessary for Congress to pass a law authorizing 
the issuance of such a coin, but it could be struck off, if 
such a law should be passed, and the Department would be 
glad to co-operate fully in the matter. 

The chairman has consulted with Mr. Stetson, Chairman 
of the Committee on Law and Legislation, concerning the 
preparation of a bill to be presented in Congress authoriz- 
ing the issuance of such a coin as was requested by the 
Commission and if the Commission so desires will ask 
Congress to present such a bill and in that event would ask 
the co-operation of the members of the Commission in 
securing the prompt enactment of such a law. 

Mr. Stetson said that he had examined the laws con- 
cerning coinage and found there were two ways of drafting 
the bill. One way provides that the Government shall make 
a loan for the coinage, to be repaid. The Columbian half 
dollar was issued on that plan. But this Commission has 
nothing with which to repay a loan. The other plan is for 
the Government to strike a coin of its own, and Mr. Stetson 
did not feel like asking the Federal authorities to strike a 
special coin for this comparatively local celebration. The 
complications in the way of such a plan were so great that 
he did not believe a law, if drafted, would be passed at 
this short session of Congress. He therefore moved that 
it was inexpedient to press the matter further, and the 
motion was seconded bv Mr. de Forest. 



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Mr. Lamb suggested that the object could be attained 
without expense or complications under the Coinage Law 
by taking our appropriation to the mint and having it con- 
verted into a special coinage which would sell above par 
and would be eagerly sought by numismatists. 

After some further discussion, Mr. Stetson's motion was 
was carried. 

Mr. C. K. G. Billings to Mark Site of Fort Tyron. 

The report of the Memorials Committee continues as 
follows : 

Your Committee further report that Mr. C. K. G. Bill- 
ings has offered to put up a suitable and artistic tablet on 
the site of the old Fort Tyronf^ on the Hudson River, the 
work to be done by Mr. Charles R. Lamb of New York ; 
and that Mr. Billings will pay all expenses connected with 
it. Your Committee recommends that the Commission ex- 
press its cordial thanks to Mr. C. K. G. Billings for his 
generous gift in aid of the Celebration, and recommends 
that this gift be known on the records as " The Billings 
Memorials Tablet at Fort Tryon." 

Mr. William C. Muschenheim was appointed a sub-com- 
mittee to report to the Memorials Committee from time to 
time the progress of the work. 

It was voted that the very hearty thanks of the Trustees 
be extended to Mr. Billings for his public-spirited co-opera- 
tion. 

Souvenir Prograuune Without Advertisements — $5,4cx> 
Appropriated — Not State Funds. 

The report of the Memorials Committee continued as 
follows : 

As to the souvenir program of the Celebration your 
Committee report that they appointed a sub-committee to 
obtain information as to the issuance of the souvenir pro- 
gramme for the Celebration and make such investigations 



* Fort Tryon was situated six-tenths of a mile north of Fort Wash- 
ington. Its site is on the west side of Fort Washington avenue, 
between the lines of 195th and 198th streets. 



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as they deem fit and to report their conclusions to this 
Committee. This sub-committee, of which Mr. Frederick 
S. Lamb is Chairman, made a report of their investigations 
concerning the cost, etc., of the souvenir programme and 
considered various offers which ivere made by various 
parties to certain amounts of percentage of the profits to 
the Commission provided said parties should be permitted 
in one or more of the editions to be published to have the 
privilege of publishing pages of advertisements, etc. After 
a full consideration of the report and all the circumstances 
your committee report that it is their opinion that it would 
be more becoming to the dignity of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission to publish its own souvenir pro- 
gramme at its own expense without any advertisements 
therein ; that it would be well to publish an edition de luxe 
and also a popular edition at a small price for the people 
at large, and that for the purpose of publishing such a 
souvenir programme in a dignified form it would be proper 
to receive bids from responsible publishing houses for the 
undertaking and that an editor be employed for the pur- 
pose of gathering authentic material relating to all the 
departments of the Celebration. For this purpose your 
(_"ommittee is of the opinion that a sum of money amounting 
to v$5,400 be appropriated by the Commission so that the 
work of preparing a souvenir programme could be taken 
up as soon as possible. Of course, it is to be presumed that 
some responsible agencies would be secured to place these 
books upon the market and that the sale thereof would 
bring in large returns. 

It was voted, without a discussion, that no advertisements 
lie used in the Souvenir Programme. 

There was some discussion of the recommendation to 
appropriate $5,400 for the printing of the souvenir. 

Mr. Ridder said that the State funds could not be used 
for this purpose and it would be necessary to raise the 
money from some other source. 

The Secretary said he felt bound to raise a question about 
the ability of the Commission to make this appropriation 
and asked out of what funds it was to be voted. 

Mr. Seligman said that he was willing to advance the 
money. 



December 23, 1908 717 

Mr. Stetson saw no legal objection to the Trustees 
making themselves liable for the amount if they wished to. 
He was not afraid of their ability to find means to meet 
the obligation. 

Mr. Jaccaci said that there was no need for immediate 
disbursement. The literary preparation would take some 
time. 

Constructor Baxter entertained the same idea. It should 
be a general programme with space devoted to the descrip- 
tion of each committee's work. 

Mr. Bergen said that the book would probably include 
eighteen different departments. 

It was finally voted that the Memorials Committee be 
authorized to expend $5,400 on the souvenir programme. 

Progress on Postal Card. 

Mr. Stetson asked Mr. Bergen if anything had been done 
to have a souvenir post-card issued, and the latter replied 
that progress was being made in that direction. 

Music Festival Arrangements. 

Mr. Raegener, Chairman of the Committee on Music 
Festivals, reported that it would be necessary to hire cer- 
tain halls without delay in order that they might be secured 
for the night set apart for the Music Festival. He sug- 
gested that they secure the Metropolitan Opera House. Car- 
negie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and halls in 
the other three boroughs. He therefore moved that his 
Committee be authorized to hire halls in the five boroughs 
if it should be deemed desirable. Carried. 

Capt. Miller, V ice-Chairman of Naval Parade Committee. 

Upon reaching the Naval Parade Committee in the call of 
Committees, the Acting President said that he deemed it 
desirable to let the Chairmanship of the Naval Parade Com- 
mittee remain vacant for the present. It was necessary, 
however, that the committee should have an acting head, 
and he therefore appointed Capt. Miller \^ice-Chairman of 



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the Committee. He also added Mr. Dalzell to the Com- 
mittee. 

Capt. Miller said that he accepted the Vice-Chairmanship 
with the understanding that a naval officer of suitable rank 
should be made Chairman. 

Brooklyn Academy of Music Tendered Gratuitously. 

Gen. Wilson, Chairman of the Official Literary Exer- 
cises Committee, reported that the Secretary of the Com- 
mission had received from the Secretary of the Brooklyn 
Academy of Music the following- letter: 

Brooklyn, Dec. 22, 1908. 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Secretary Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission, Tribune Building, New York City. 
Dear Sir : In response to your favor of October 30th last, 
addressed to Hon. Charles A. Schieren, President of the 
Brooklyn Academy of Music, I would say that at the meet- 
ing of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Music 
your letter was duly submitted to them for consideration 
and action. 

I am pleased to inform you that thereupon a resolution 
was unanimously adopted that the privilege of using the 
opera house of the Academy on the evening of September 
28, 1909, for the purpose as requested in your favor of 
October 30th be granted gratuitously, and that all details 
regarding the matter be referred to President Schieren and 
Mr. Abraham Abraham as a Special Committee with power. 
I would therefore respectfully refer you to this Special 
Committee for such further information as you and your 
Commission may desire in this matter. 

Believe me, yours, very truly, 

Edwin C. Ward. 

Secretary. 

Gen. Wilson said that the arrangements of his committee 
now stood as follows : They had secured the Metropolitan 
Opera House, the Great Hall of the City College and the 
Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music free, and 
Carnegie Hall for $400. They were thus able to seat about 
12,000 persons at an expense of only $400. 



December 23, 1908 719 

Private Publications Not to be Officially Endorsed. 

The Assistant Secretary read a letter dated Binghamton, 
N. Y., Dec. 7, 1908, from Mr. Leon Mead, requesting the 
Commission to examine the proofs of his biography of 
Robert Fulton, about to be published by D. Appleton & Co., 
and to endorse it officially. 

It was voted as the policy of the Commission not to give 
its official endorsement to private publications. 

Civic Bodies Invited to Co-operate. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the Acting President be author- 
izd to address a letter to the various civic bodies of the city, 
advising them of the approaching celebration, inviting them 
to participate in such manner as seemed advisable, and re- 
questing them to appoint committees of not to exceed three 
members each to co-operate with this Commission in 
making arrangements. Carried. 

Chairmen Invited to Trustees' Meetings. 

Upon suggestion of the Acting President, it was voted 
that the Committee Chairmen who are not Trustees be 
invited to attend future Trustees' meetings. Carried. 

Nezv York Naval Militia Tenders Services. 

The Secretary read a letter from Captain Jacob W. 
Miller of the Naval Militia of the State of New York 
tendering the services of that organization on board the 
" Half Moon " and " Clermont "' during the celebration " or 
for such purposes as may be consistent with your views 
and the duty for which the organization is fitted." 

It was voted that the offer be communicated to the Half 
Moon, Clermont and Naval Parade Committees. 
The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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Headquarters: Tribune Building, New York 
Telephones: Beekman, 3097 and 3098 



President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting President. 
182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Assistants to tKe Secretary 

Mr. George N. Moran, Mr. David T. Wells. 

General Executive Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



723 

Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

January 7, 1909. 

The seventh meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson-Fuhon Celebration Commission was held pursuant 
to call of the Chairman at the headquarters of the Commis- 
sion in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street, New 
York City, Thursday, January 7, 1909, at 2.30 p. m. 

The Plan and Scope Committee and the Chairmen of all 
Committees were also invited to be present. 

Roll Call. 
Present: Acting President Herman Ridder, presiding; 
and Dr. George C. Batcheller, Air. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. 
William Berri, Gen. Howard Carroll, Hon. Joseph H. 
Choate, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Warren Higley, Mr. Samuel 
V. Hoffman, Hon. Henry Hudson, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Col. Arthur MacArthur, Hon. Wil- 
liam McCarroll, Hon. Benjamin McClung, Mr. Eben E. 
Olcott, Mr. John E. Parsons, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Hon. 
N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Major Gen- 
eral Charles F. Roe, ]\Ir. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Frederick 
W. Seward, Flon. Henry F. Snyder, Mr. Francis Lynde 
Stetson, Commander Aaron Vanderbilt, Hon. William R. 
Willcox, and General James Grant Wilson ; also Mr. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton by invitation. 

Absentees Excused. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. John G. 
Agar, Hon. James M. Beck, Mr. Henry W. Cannon, Mr. 
William J. Curtis, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. John 
La Farge, Hon. Seth Low, Dr. Eugene H. Porter, Hon. 
James K. Sague, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, President Jacob 
Gould Schurman, Hon. John Starin, Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
and Hon. Andrew D. White, and thev were excused. 



724 Minutes of Executive Committee 

Minutes Approved. 

The minutes of the sixth meeting of the Executive Com- 
mittee, held September 18, 1908, having been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved. 

Nciv Jersey Men Appointed by Gov. Hughes. 

The Secretary presented the following letter from the 
Secretary of Governor Hughes: 

STATE OF NEW YORK : 

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, 

ALBANY, 

January 7, 1909. 
Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
154 Nassau Street, 

New York City, N. Y. 

Dear Sir: Governor Hughes directs me to inform you 
that on December 29, 1908, he made the following addi- 
tional appointments of members of the Hudson- Fulton 
Celebration Commission : 

Hon. Edw-ard C. Stokes, Trenton ; Hon. Franklin Mur- 
phy, Newark ; Hon. John F. Dryden, Newark ; Hon. John 
W. Griggs, Paterson; Hon. Foster M. Voorhees, Elizabeth; 
Hon. George T. Werts, Jersey City ; Hon. John Dyneley 
Prince, Ringwood ; Mr. James Kerney, Trenton ; Mr. Wal- 
lace M. Scudder, Newark; Mr. William T. Hunt, Newark; 
Mr. Henry H. Doremus, Newark; Mr. Thomas J. Hillery, 
Boonton; Hon. H. Otto Wittpenn, Jersey City; Mr. John 
H. Ramsey, Hackensack ; Mr. Matthew C. Ely, Hoboken. 

The Governor also appointed the Honorable H. B. 
Swartwout, Mayor of Port Jervis, as a member of the Com- 
mission. Chapter 217 of the Laws of 1908 included all 
the mayors of cities in the Commission, except the Mayor 
or Port Jervis. The omission is thus supplied. 
Very truly yours, 

Robert H. Fuller, 
Secretary to the Governor. 

The Secretary was directed to enter on the rolls of the 
Commission the names of the gentlemen appointed by the 
Governor. 



January 7, 19C9 725 

Governor's Message. 

The Secretary was requested to insert in the minutes the 
following extract from the annual message delivered by 
Governor Hughes to the Legislature on January 6th : 

" We celebrate this year with sister states the tercen- 
tenary discoveries of Samuel de Champlain and Henry 
Hudson, and suitable provision should be made for worthy 
commemoration. This, however, should not be limited to 
mere ceremonial, but in our schools and in our voluntary 
associations we should take advantage of this opportunity 
to kindle interest in the story of our development. While 
the formal celebrations will be confined to the scenes of the 
discoveries, appropriate meetings under local auspices 
should be held throughout the state, and these interesting 
occasions should contribute powerfully to the reinforce- 
ment of the patriotic sentiment of the people." 

Appointed by Mayor McClellan. 

The Secretary read a letter from the Executive Secretary 
of ]\Iayor McClellan, dated December 31, 1908, stating that 
in accordance with the recommendation of the Trustees 
(see page 698) he has appointed as members of the Com- 
mission Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Dr. 
Edward L. Partridge, Hon. Samuel R. Thayer* and Col. 
Robert AI. Thompson. 

The Secretary was directed to enter the names of these 
gentlemen on the rolls of the Commission. 

Resignations Accepted. 

A letter was read from Rear Admiral Caspar F. Good- 
rich, U. S. N., dated January 2, 1909, in which he said 
that he was very much touched by the desire of the 
Trustees that he reconsider his resignation (see page 699), 
but that as he expected to go abroad and disliked to share 
in credit which did not belong to him, he felt that he should 
resign. His resignation was therefore accepted. 

A letter from Capt. Howland Pell, dated January 5, was 
read, tendering his resignation on account of the demands 
on his time by the Lake Champlain Celebration Commis- 
sion. The resignation was accepted. 

*Mr. Thayer died Jan. 7, 1909. 



726 Minutes of Executive Committee 

A letter dated January 6, was read from Hon. Charles H. 
Gaus, late Mayor of the City of Albany and now Comp- 
troller of the State, tendering his resignation and it was 
accepted. 

Couunittce on Contracts Appointed. 

The Chairman announced the appointment of the follow- 
ing new committee to have charge of the drawing of the 
contracts entered into by the Commission : Hon. M. Linn 
Bruce, Chairman, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Henry E. 
Gregory, Mr. John J. McKelvey and Mr. Nelson S. 
Spencer. 

Other Committee Changes. 

The Chairman also announced the following committee 
changes : 

Patriotic Societies: Dr. Marcus Benjamin appointed; 
Capt. Howland Pell resigned. 

Hudson River Scenery : Dr. Edward L. Partridge ap- 
pointed. 

Music Festival: Mr. Louis C. Raegener resigned as 
Chairman and Hon. Gustav Lindenthal appointed Chair- 
man in his place. 

Naval Parade: Col. Robert AL Thompson appointed; 
Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, U. S. N., resigned. 

North Hudson : Hon. Charles H. Gaus resigned and 
Hon. Henry F. Snyder appointed Chairman in his place. 

Upper Hudson Committee Consolidated. 

The Assistant Secretary briefly recapitulated the state- 
ment which he made to the Trustees December 23d (see 
pages 700-703) concerning the desirability of consolidating 
the committees heretofore appointed to have charge of the 
celebration at and above Newburgh, and the action of the 
Trustees in referring the subject to the Plan and Scope 
Committee. 

Mr. Seward. Chairman of the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee, said that since the last meeting the chairmen of the 
Committees on Newburgh Ceremonies, Old Home Week, 
Local Celebrations and North Hudson had expressed to 
him their cordial approval of the proposed new arrange- 
ment, and in behalf of the Plan and Scope Committee he 
recommended the change suggested. 



January 7, 1909 727 

After remarks by Mayor Hudson, Mayor Snyder, Col. 
MacArthur and Mr. Choate, Mr. Seward offered the fol- 
lowing resolution : 

Resolved : That the Committees on Newburgh Cere- 
monies, North Hudson, Local Celebrations and Old Home 
Week, as at present constituted, be discharged with the 
thanks of the Executive Committee ; 

That a new Committee be appointed, to be composed of 
the members of the Commission residing along the Hudson 
River at and above Xewburgh, to be known as the Upper 
Hudson Committee ; 

That the chairman of the Upper Hudson Committee be 
appointed by the President upon the recommendation of 
that Committee ; 

And that the Upper Hudson Committee be authorized 
to divide itself into its own subcommittees. 

The resolutions were adopted. 

Prograuimc for Celebration Changed. 
The Assistant Secretary also laid before the meeting, in 
behalf of the Chairman of the Plan and Scope Committee. 
a revised programme for the celebration, embodying recom- 
mendations made for changes in the first week's exercises, 
and also the recommendations concerning local cele- 
bration days north of Newburgh in the second week 
mentioned on pages 703-705 of the minutes. The changes 
in brief are as follows : 

Transpose the opening of Art and Historical Exhibits 
from Tuesday. September 28, to Monday, September 2"/. 

Transpose the general commemorative exercises from 
Tuesday, September 28. to Wednesday, September 29. 

Introduce on Tuesday. September 28, a day parade in the 
nature of an Historical Pageant in New York City. 

Transpose the Military Parade from Wednesday, Sejv 
tember 29, to Thursday, September 30. 

Transpose the Dedications from Thursday, September 
30, to Wednesday, September 29. 

Call the week beginning Sunday, October 3, Upper 
Hudson Week, with the following days : 

Monday, October 4, Dutchess County Day, with exer- 
cises at Poughkeepsie ; Tuesday, October 5, Ulster Countv 
Day, with exercises at Kingston ; Wednesday October 6,. 
Greene County Day, with exercises at Catskill ; Thursday, 



728 Minutes of Executive Committee 

October 7, Columbia County Day, with exercises at Hud- 
son ; Friday, October 8, Albany County Day, with exercises 
at Albany; Saturday, October 9, Rensselaer County Day, 
with exercises at Troy. 

These changes appear more fully in the revised pro- 
gramme appended to these minutes. 

Air. Seward moved that the changes be adopted. After 
remarks by Mr. Trask and Mr. Parsons, the motion was 
carried. 

Movements of "Half Moon" and "' Clermont." 
The Assistant Secretary moved that in order to make 
the statement of the duties of the Half Aloon Committee 
and the Clermont Committee as given on page 668 and 670 
clearer, it Ije added that in the naval parade north of Xew- 
burgh, the Half Moon and Clermont Committees will be 
subject to the arrangements of the Upper Hudson Com- 
mittee's subc<^mmittee on North Hudson Naval Parade. 
Carried. 

Dutch Najiie of the "Half Moon." 
The Assistant Secretary read a note received by Mr. 
Edward D. Adams from Vice Admiral J. A. Roell, retired, 
of the Royal Dutch Navy, dated The Hague, December 26, 
1908, in response to a question from Mr. Adams, stating 
that the name of the Half Moon, as it will appear on the 
poop of the replica now being built in Holland, will be 
spellefl " de Halve Maene." This spelling will be adopted 
on the medal of the Commission.* 

Expenditures for Building of Floats for the Parade 
Authorized. 
The Secretary laid before the meeting two propositions 
made by Mr. A. H. Stoddard for the building of the floats 
for the Historical Parade on Tuesday, September 28, and 
the Carnival Parade on Saturday evening, October 2. 

*In modern Dutch the spelling is "Halve Maan." In the Uitloop 
Bookje or Sailing Book of the Dutch East India Company, the 
name was spelled "Halve Maen." In another manuscript book of the 
East India Company of the period, called the Memoriael or Memo- 
randum Book, it was spelled " Halve Mane." It was to resolve 
the doubts on this question that Mr. Adams wrote to Admiral Roell. 



January 7, 1909 729 

The first plan proposed that a contract be let to Mr. 
Stoddard, by which he would undertake, under bond, to 
construct the floats at a cost not to exceed $34,150 for fifty 
floats. This plan was not approved by the Committee on 
Carnival and Historical Parades because it did not allow 
the Commission to retain sufficient control of the con- 
struction. 

The second plan, which was recommended by the Com- 
mittee on Carnival and Historical Parades, proposed that 
the Commission should be the actual builder of the floats; 
that it should secure by rental or otherwise land space suffi- 
cient for the construction and storage of the floats ; build 
or refit a building for a workshop ; purchase the materials 
to be used in the erection of the building and the construc- 
tion of the floats; secure the necessary insurance; carry on 
its payrolls all persons engaged in the work ; and own abso- 
lutely all the materials used and all the products of con- 
struction ; the work to be done under the direction of the 
Carnival and Historical Parades Committee and the super- 
intendence of Mr. Stoddard, the latter to receive a com- 
mission of 10 per cent, on the actual cost of the construction 
of the floats, and in addition, compensation, as at present, 
at the rate of $5,000 per annum for other expenses. Under 
this proposition, Mr. Stoddard will guarantee, under bond, 
that the floats shall not cost over $37,000 for fifty floats, 
inclufling his commission and expense account. Following 
is his estimate : 

Building 50 floats for Carnival Parade at $350 

each $17,500 00 

Purchase of 50 trucks at $80 each 4,000 00 

Lanrl rent 9 months at $300 2,700 00 

Refitting building for workshop 4,275 00 

Insurance on $25,000 at 4 per cent 1,000 00 

Three watchmen, $75 per month each for 9 

months 2,025 00 

Mr. Stoddard's commission of 10 per cent, on 

first item for building fifty floats i-750 00 

Mr. Stoddard's expense account, nine months 

at $5,000 per annum 3.750 00 

$37,000 00 



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If floats are to be constructed for use in a day parade, 
the sum of $250 for each such float should be added to 
the above estimate of $350 each because of the greater 
expense involved in the making of floats that are to be 
exposed to the bright light of the day. 

The Secretary offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the latter proposition to build the floats 
be accepted under Mir. Stoddard's guarantee and ibond 
that the cost of fifty floats for the night Carnival shall not 
exceed $37,000. and that the cost of the floats for the day 
parade shall not exceed the additional sum of $250 per 
float (or $600 each for the day floats) and that Mr. Stod- 
dard be allowed 10 per cent, commission on the actual cost 
of constructing the floats. 

Mr. Bergen said he thought that too much emphasis was 
placed on these floats. It was a question in his mind 
whether these were the most valuable contribution to the 
celebration. 

Mr. Trask said that these parades were the principal 
features in which the public had a share and which ap- 
pealed to the masses. He thought that if the Historical 
I'arade and Carnival Parade together cost $125,000 it 
would be reasonable. He spoke enthusiastically of the 
pageants at Winchester and other English villages and said 
that he knew of nothing more fitted to educate the masses 
of the people than pageants of this sort. 

Mr. Choate inquired where the money was to come from. 

Mr. Ridder replied that we had some money already and 
that the rest would be forthcoming. 

Mr. Berri said he would not favor a single float if they 
were not appropriate, but that appropriate floats would 
have a great educational value. 

Mr. John E. Parsons said that the pictures which had 
been prepared as designs for the floats were a revelation 
of beauty. He inquired if it were not true that the Com- 
mission could recoup itself for a large part of the ex- 
penditure. 

The Secretary said that Mr. Stoddard had told him that 
New Orleans made about $20,000 from the annual sale of 
the carnival programmes. Mr. Stoddard's estimate was 



January 7, 1909 731 

that figuring conservatively the programmes should return 
at least $50,000 over the cost of printing them. 

Mr. Ridder suggested that enough funds must be pro- 
vided to pay for the parade exclusive of the returns that 
are expected from the sale of the programmes. 

Mr. Stetson suggested that the floats be sent up the river 
to aid in some of the other celebrations after the pageant 
had been held in New York, and asked if that would be 
agreeable to the members from the cities up the river. 

Mayor McClung replied that they would be glad to have 
anything that had been successful in New York. 

Mr. Trask suggested that the trucks and floats might be 
sold after the Celebration was over. The floats used at 
New Orleans were sold, he said, after the Carnival was 
over. 

The Secretary said that Mr. Stoddard estimated that 
after the pageant was over even if the floats should go 
up the river for the celebration there, they could be sold 
for 25 per cent, of their cost. 

Mr. Olcott suggested that the number of floats be limited. 

The Secretary's motion was then adopted. 

The Secretary then ofifered the following resolutions : 

Resolved, That the present arrangement of an allowance 
on the basis of $5,000 a year for expenses to Air. Stoddard 
be continued. Carried. 

Resolved, That Mr. Stoddard be authorized at once to 
employ the men necessary and to buy the materials required 
to start the work of construction of the floats at the earliest 
practicable moment. Carried. 

Resolved, That the officers of the Commission be au- 
thorized to secure sufficient land for the work of construc- 
tion of the floats at a rental not to exceed the amount 
named in the estimate of Mr. Stoddard, namely, $300 a 
month. Carried. 

Resolved, That the Carnival and Historical Parades Com- 
mittee receive an appropriation of $5,000 to permit Mi, 
Stoddard, under the direction of that Committee, to refit 
the present buildings on the site selected, as a workshop 
and to buy whatever material may immediately be needed 
to begin actual construction of the floats. Carried. 



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Suggestions about Illmninations. 

Mr. Sackett spoke of Mr. Parry whom the Commission 
had engaged as General Executive Assistant. Mr, Parry, 
he said, had felt that there was not much for him to do 
just now but he had made many valuable suggestions and 
had aided Mr. Stoddard in his work of arranging the 
pageants. Mr. Parry, he said, had some suggestions to 
make. He was therefore invited to come in and address 
the committees. 

Mr. Parry came in and suggested that the ships in the 
harbor be illuminated on the night of Friday, and that for 
the fireworks two barges could be lashed together. On 
them, he said, an Indian village could be constructed and 
Indians in canoes could come to trade and could go through 
their dances and other Indian customs. He could get the 
same Indians, he said, who were employed in the Quebec 
Celebration. He suggested that after this was finished the 
" Half Moon " could appear on the scene and the Indians 
paddle from the float to the side of the fac-simile of 
Hudson's ship. 

Mr. Seward reminded Mr. Parry that on Friday night 
the fleet and the Half Moon would be at Newburgh and 
moved that Mr. Parry's suggestion should be made to a 
joint meeting of the Naval Parade and Illuminations Com- 
mittees. The motion was carried. 

Engineers Invited to Hold an Exhihition. 
Dr. Kunz suggested that the Commission invite the four 
great engineering societies, the Mechanical, Civil, Electrical 
and Mining Engineers to hold an exhibition of the progress 
of steam navigation. It would be possible to hold the ex- 
hibition, he said, on the seventh floor of the engineering 
building. He said that he had spoken to the Presidents 
of the Mechanical and Civil Engineering Societies and that 
they had been enthusiastic about holding the exhibit. The 
Societies in their exhibit, he said, would give credit to the 
others beside Robert Fulton who had assisted in the de- 
velopment of steam navigation. Some persons, he said, 
were quite stirred up because they believed that in the Cele- 



January 7, 1909 733 

bration of Robert Fulton's Centennial tbe right of other 
steam navigators to recognition had been slighted. He 
therefore offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the Historical Exhibits Committee be 
empowered to invite the Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and 
Mining Engineers Societies to arrange for a loan exhibition 
illustrating the early history of steam navigation. 

The resolution was seconded by Mr. Seward, who said 
that he was glad to second a motion which would cost the 
Commission nothing. 

Mr. Ridder said that the Commission might furnish cata- 
logues for the exhibit but it was to be the understanding 
that the exhibition should not be an expense to the Com- 
mission. 

The resolution was adopted. 

$1,000 for Children's Festivals Coinniittee. 
Mr. Samuel Parsons, Chairman of the Children's Fes- 
tival Committee, asked for an appropriation of $i,cxx) for 
the current expenses of his committee and it was voted. 

Inii'ood Hill Park. 

Mr. John E. Parsons reported that active work on the 
scheme for a park on Inwood Heights was being withheld 
in deference to the request of the Law and Legislation 
Committee. 

Verplanck's Point Park. 

Mr. Pugsle}^ asked whether in the attempt of the Ver- 
planck's Point, the Committee should ask for a separate 
appropriation for the park, or should add the amount re- 
quired, $75,000, to the general appropriation of $300,000 
for which the Commission would ask. 

Mr. Stetson asked Mr. Pugsley to try to get his appro- 
priation separate from the general appropriation of the 
Commission. 

Nezv York Historical Society Exhibition. 
The Secretary presented a letter dated January 6, 1909, 
from Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, President of the New York 



734 Minutes of Executive Committee 

Historical Society, stating that on January 5, that Society 
had voted to co-operate with the Commission and to hold 
an exhibition relating to Robert Fulton. 

Origin of Tercentenary Movement. 
The Secretary presented as a matter of interest, as show- 
ing the earliest movement for the celebration of the Hudson 
tercentenary, the following extract from the minutes of 
the meeting of the trustees of the Holland Society of New 
York, held June 13, 1901 : 

'"At a stated meeting of the Trustees of The Holland 
Society, June 13, 1901, the Secretary, [Theodore M. Banta,] 
called attention to the fact that the 300th Anniversary of 
the discovery of the Hudson River by Hendrick Hudson 
will occur in the year 1909 — and offered the following 
preamble and resolution which were adopted. 

" Whereas the three hundredth anniversary of the dis- 
covery of the Hudson River by a Dutch ship under the 
command of Captain Hendrick Hudson will occur in Sep- 
tember, 1909, and it is eminently fitting that the tri-cen- 
tennial of that momentous event in our history should be 
celebrated in a suitable manner, therefore 
" Resolved, That the President of this Society be requested 
to appoint a Committee to take into consideration and report 
as to the best mode of enlisting the sympathy and secur- 
ing the co-operaltion of all citizens of the State and of the 
country in a suitable commemoration of the ter-centenary 
of the discovery of the Hudson River. 

" The President appointed as such a Committee the fol- 
lowing gentlemen : Augustus Van Wyck, Warner Van 
Norden, Theodore M. Banta, Robert B. Roosevelt, Henry 
\'an Dyke." 

It was upon invitation of the Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt 
of the above-named committee that a preliminary meeting 
was held at his home on February 15, 1905, which resulted 
eventually in the formation of this Commission. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



735 
J^rugramnt^ of 

September 25, to October 9, 1909. 
(Revised to January 7, 1909.) 

The programme for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, ex- 
tending from September 25 to October 9, 1909, as revised 
to January 7, 1909, is given below, subject to modification 
in details as necessity arises. 

RELIGIOUS SERVICE DAYS. 

(Saturday, September 25, and Sunday, September 26, 1909.) 
The Commission is of the opinion that in arranging for 
the celebration the people should not overlook the Divine 
guidance in the two great events to be commemorated, one 
of which opened up our State to modern civilization and 
led to the founding of the City of Xew York, and the other 
of which laid the 'foundation for the vast commerce upon 
which the prosperity of the City and State so largely de- 
pends. It has therefore set apart the first two days for 
religious observances by those who are accusto^med to wor- 
ship on Saturday and Sunday. 

RECEPTION DAY. 

(Monday, September 27th.) 

The secular observances will begin on Monday. Septem- 
ber 27th, with the following features : 

General decoration of public and private dwellings from 
Xew York to the head of the river. 

Rendezvous of American and foreign vessels at New 
York. 

Fac-simile of Hudson's " Half Moon " to enter the river, 
be formally received and take her place in line. 

Fac-simile of Fulton's " Clermont " to start form original 
site with appropriate exercises and take position in line. 

Visiting guests to disembark and be officially received. 



736 Programme 

Opening of exhibits of paintings, prints, books, models, 
relics, etc., by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History, the Hispanic Museum, 
the American Numismatic Society, the New York Public 
Library, the New York Historical Society, the New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Society, the American Geo- 
graphical Society, Webb's School for Shipbuilders, the New 
York Yacht Club, and similar institutions throughout the 
State. The exhibitions at the Metropolitan r\Iuseum of Art 
and the American Museum of Natural History promise to 
be the most remarkable of the kind ever held in this coun- 
try and will probably extend over a period of several 
months. 

Musical festivals in the evening in each of the five bor- 
oughs of the city. 

HISTORICAL DAY. 

(Tuesday, September 28th.) 

On Tuesday, September 28, there will be a Historical 
Parade in the City of New York. The procession will 
be composed of floats and moving tableaux representing 
the principal events in the history of the City and State. 

It the evening, the Official Literary Exercises will be 
held in the Mertopolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the 
Great Hall of the College of the City of New York and the 
Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at which 
orations will be delivered by men of national reputation. 

GENERAL COMMEMORATION DAY. 

(Wednesday, September 29th.) 
W^ednesday, September 29, will be devoted to the Dedi- 
cation of Parks and Memorials along the Hudson River 
and to General Commemorative Exercises throughout the 
State. It is recommended not only that between now and 
then, the most earnest efiforts be made to secure great 
memorials like Inwood Hill Park, but also that the civic 
pride of various communities along the river be invoked 
to participate in like manner by establishiifg parks, institu- 
tions or other public memorials. The interest of the numer- 



January 7, 1909 737 

OLis historical and patriotic societies is invited in the erec- 
tion of monuments and tablets, so that the history of the 
Hudson \'alley may be written in stone and bronze from 
the site of old Fort Amsterdam to the site of old Fort 
Orange. The Commission has advices which indicate that 
monuments to William the Silent and Henry Hudson, a 
tablet to the Founders and Patriots of New York and a 
tablet on Fort Tyron will be ready for dedication. 

Wednesday will be essentially an educational day, de- 
voted to exercises by the universities, colleges, schools, 
museums and learned and patriotic societies throughout the 
zvJiolc State. While the commemoration of 1909 must, from 
geographical considerations, largely center around the Hud- 
son River, the glory and the material benefits of Hudson's 
and h'ulton's achievements are the heritage of the people 
of the entire State, and the programme for Wednesday 
afforcis a practical means for a general observance of the 
occasion from one end of the State to the other. Features 
of this day's observances will be as follows : Commemora- 
tive exercises in all the universities, colleges and institutions 
of learning throughout the State of Nezu York; with free 
lectures for the people in New York City under the auspices 
of the Board of Education. 

The programme for this day contemplates also : 

Aquatic sports on the Hudson River, designed in the 
first instance for friendly competition between the crews 
of the naval vessels, but which may embrace motor boat 
races and such other amusements as may seem practicable 
and desirable. 

A reception to visiting guests at West Point during the 
day; and 

An Official Banquet in honor of distinguished guests in 
the City of New York in the evening. 

MILITARY PARADE DAY. 

(Thursday, September 30th.) 

On Thursday, September 30, will occur the military 
parade, participated in by the United States Army, the 



738 Programme 

United States Navy and Marine Corps, the National Guard 
and the Naval Militia. 

Owing to the probable length of this parade, which may 
contain as many as 25,000 troops, the great fatigue which 
would be caused to the distinguished reviewing party if 
required to witness a longer procession, and the difficulties 
in the way of moving with precision and promptness a 
larger body if composed of undrilled civilians, it has been 
deemed advisable to eliminate civic features from this 
parade. 

An evening reception to the official guests at the head- 
quarters of the Department of the East on Governor's 
Island is suggested as the closing event of the day if it 
proves agreeable to the authorities. 

HUDSON RIVER DAY. 

(Friday, October ist.) 

Friday, October ist is devoted to the Naval Parade and 
incidental ceremonies. It appears to be practicable for 
some of our naval vessels to proceed as far north as New- 
burgh Bay. It is planned to have as many vessels of the 
navy, merchant marine, excursion boats, and pleasure craft 
as possible go from New York to Newburgh, taking with 
them the fac-similes of the " Half Moon " and " Clermont." 

In order that the inhabitants of the country on either 
side of the river may see the parade and the reproductions 
of the historic vessels, we recommend that the day be de- 
voted by them to fetes champetres along the river-sides 
from New York to Newburgh. 

As the procession passes up the river, salutes may be 
fired from eligible points. 

Simultaneously with the advance of the South Hudson 
Division, it is proposed to have a counter-procession from 
Albany to Newburgh, the two divisions meeting and hold- 
ing appropriate ceremonies at Newburgh. Here the " Half 
Moon " and " Clermont " will joint the North Hudson 
Division. 



January 7, 1909 739 

CARNIVAL DAY. 

(Saturday, October 2d.) 

Saturday, October 2d, is designed for a general Carnival 
Day in New York city. 

The New York division of the Naval Parade will return 
to its starting point. 

In all the cities this will be peculiarly the Children's Day, 
devoted to fetes in public and private parks and play- 
grounds. 

The celebration will culminate in New York City in the 
evening with a Carnival Parade. This feature, with its 
moving allegorical tableaux participated in by all nationali- 
ties represented in the city, will, it is believed, excel in 
beauty and interest the most famous carnivals of Europe. 

Brilliancy will be added to the general spectacle by the 
illumination of the fleet and public and private buildings 
and a pyrotechnic display. Displays of fire works at various 
points, notably on the great bridges as in the fetes of the 
14th of July in Paris, are in contemplation. 

At 9 P. M. it is designed to have a chain of signal fires 
from mountain tops and other eligible points along the 
whole river, lighted simultaneously. An arrangement has 
been made with the Pain Manfacturing Company as offi- 
cial illuminators, by which local communities can contract 
for these fires at reasonable and uniform rates. 

UPPER HUDSON WEEK. 

(Beginning Sunday, October 3d.) 

It is planned to devote the week beginning Sunday, Oc- 
tober 3d, to celebrations in the communities along the Up- 
per Hudson. This will be somewhat in the nature of an 
Old Home Week. The events previously outlined will 
draw many residents of the State to the City of New York 
and will prevent as full a participation in local celebrations 
as might otherwise be possible ; whereas, in the week follow- 
ing not only will the citizens of the communities outside 
of the Metropolis be at home, but former residents of those 



740 Programme 

communities will also be freer to make pilgrimages to their 
old homes, renew old ties and participate in local exercises. 
Beginning Sunday, October 3d, such portion of the Lower 
Hudson fleet as can continue the voyage to Troy, together 
with the North Hudson Fleet and the "Half Moon" and 
" Clermont," will be subject to the arrangements of the 
Upper Hudson Committee of the Commission. 

DUTCHESS COUNTY DAY. 

(Monday, October 4th.) 

On Alonday the naval parade will be at Poughkeepsie, 
the county seat of Dutchess county, and remain there dur- 
ing the Poughkeepsie Ceremonies. The erection of a statue 
of Robert Fulton has been suggested as a feature of the 
Poughkeepsie celebration. 

ULSTER COUNTY DAY. 

(Tuesday, October 5th.) 

On Tuesday, the naval parade will proceed to Kingston, 
the county seat of Ulster county, while similar exercises 
take place there. A statue of Governor Clinton has been 
proposed as the permanent memorial here. 

GREENE COUNTY DAY. 

(W^ednesday, October 6th.) 

On Wednesday, October 6, the naval parade will go to 
Catskill, the county seat of Greene county. It is proposed 
that the ceremonies here include the dedication of a statue 
of Rip Van Winkle. 

/ 

COLUMBIA COUNTY DAY. 

(Thursday, October 7th.) 

On Thursday, October 7th, the fleet will continue on to 
Hudson, which is the county seat of Columbia county and 
is named after the great explorer. A statue to Henry 
Hudson is the appropriate memorial proposed at this point. 



January 7, 1909 741 

ALBANY COUNTY DAY. 

(Friday, October 8th.) 

On Friday, the 8th, the flotiha will advance to the Capital 
of the commonwealth, the county seat of Albany county 
and the oldest city in the State. A statue of Peter Schuy- 
ler, the first mayor of Albany, has been suggested as the 
permanent memorial here. 

RENSSELAER COUNTY DAY. 

(Saturday, October 9th.) 

In like manner the naval parade will advance to Troy, 
the county seat of Rensselaer county on Saturday, October 
9th, and form the nucleus of the celebration there. A statue 
of Van Rensselaer, who obtained the first land grant in 
that section, has been suggested as an appropriate monu- 
ment to be erected here. 



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Minutes of January 27, 1909 



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Headquarters: Tribune Building, New York 
Telephones: Beekman, 3097 and 3098 



President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting President. 
182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

A.ssistants to tKe Secretary- 
Mr. George N. Moran, Mr. David T. Wells. 

General Executive Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry 

I Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



745 



Olliatnnfn of (Eommtttfes 

(Address, New York City unless otherwise stated) 

(Revised to Jan. 30, 1909) 

Aeronautics : Hon. James M. Beck, 44 Wall Street. 

Art and Historical Exhibits : J. Pierpont Morgan, 23 Wall 

Street; Sub-Committee on Art Exhibits, Hon. Robert W. 

de Forest ; Sub-Committee on Historical Exhibits, Dr. George 

F. Kunz. 
Aquatic Sports : Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Pier 19, North River. 
Auditing: Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 280 Broadway. 
Badges, Flag and Poster : August F. Jaccaci, 7 West 43d Street. 
Banquet : Francis Lynde Stetson, 15 Broad Street. 
Carnival and Historical Parades : Herman Ridder, 182 William 

Street. 
Children's Festivals: Hon. Samuel Parsons, 1 133 Broadway. 
" Clermont " : Eben E. Olcott, Desbrosses Street Pier. 
Contracts : Hon. M. Linn Bruce, 18 Wall Street. 
Decorations and Reviewing Stands : Charles R. Lamb, 22 

6th Avenue. 
Dedications : Hon. Warren Higley, 165 Broadway. 
Executive : Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street ; John E. 

Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 
General Commemorative Exercises : President Jacob Gould 

Schurman, Ithaca. 
" Half Moon " : Hon. Herbert L. Satterlee, 120 Broadway. 
Historical : Samuel V. Hoffman, 258 Broadway. 
Hospitality: Dr. George C. Batcheller, 696 Broadway. 
Hudson River Scenery: Hon. Alton B. Parker, 3 South William 

Street. 
Illuminations : Hon. Wm. Berri, 526 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
Invitations : Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 60 Wall Street. 
Inwood Park : John E. Parsons, 52 William Street. 
Law and Legislation : Francis Lynde Stetson, 15 Broad Street. 
Lectures : Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 500 Park Avenue. 
Lower Hudson : Hon. Nathan A. Warren, Yonkers. 
Medal : Henry W. Cannon, 10 Wall Street. 
Memorials : Tunis G. Bergen, 55 Liberty Street. 
Military Parade: Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 280 Broadway. 
Music Festival : Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, 45 Cedar Street. 
Naval Parade : Chairmanship vacant. Vice-Chairman, Capt. 

Jacob W. Miller, Pier 19, North River. 
New Jersey : Hon. Edward C. Stokes, Trenton, N. J. 
Nominations : Theodore Fitch, 120 Broadway. 



746 

Official Literary Exercises : Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson, 157 West 79th 

Street. 
Patriotic Societies : Stuyvesant Fish, 216 Broadway. 
Plan and Scope: Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, Montrose, N. Y. 
Public Health and Convenience: Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 181 West 

73d Street. 
Public Safety: Hon. William McCarroll, 154 Nassau Street. 
Reception: Hon. Seth Low, 30 East 64th Street. 
Religious Services: Hon. John G. Agar, 31 Nassau Street. 
Transportation: Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row. 
Upper Hudson: Col. Arthur MacArthur, Troy. 
Verplanck's Point Park: Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Peekskill. 
Ways and Means : Herman Ridder, 182 William Street. 



747 
Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

January i']^ 1909. 

The thirty-fourth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held in the head- 
quarters of the Commission in the Tribune Building, at No. 
154 Nassau street, New York City, on Wednesday, January 
27, 1909, at 3 o'clock p. M. 

Roll Call. 

There were present the following named members of the 
Board of Trustees and Chairmen of Committees : Mr. Her- 
man Ridder, Acting President, presiding, and Hon. James 
K. Apgar, Dr. George C. Batcheller, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Sam- 
uel V. Hoffman, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Gen. Horatio C. 
King, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Mr. 
William J. McKay, Rear Admiral Geo. W. Melville, Capt. 
Jacob W. Miller, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Lud- 
wig Nissen, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. 
John E. Parsons, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Hon. Thomas R. Proctor, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. 
Francis Lynde Stetson, Col. John W. Vrooman and Gen. 
Jas. Grant Wilson ; also Dr. Edward L. Partridge, a mem- 
ber of the Commission. 

Absentees Excused. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Mr. George V. Brower, Mr. William J. Curtis, Hon. 
Robert W. De Forest, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Hon. Henry 
Hudson, Hon. Warren Higley, Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Cor- 
nelius A. Pugsley, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, President Jacob 
Gould Schurman, Hon. Henry F. Snyder, Mr. Spencer 
Trask and Dr. Samuel B. Ward, and they were excused. 



748 Minutes of Trustees 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the Trustees' meeting held December 23 
and of the Executive Committee meeting held January 7, 
having been printed and sent to all the members of the Com- 
mission, were approved as printed. 

Executive Committee Proceedings Ratified. 
The Secretary offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the acts and proceedings of the Executive 
Committee at its meeting held on January 7, 1909, and re- 
corded in the printed minutes on page 723 to page 741, both 
inclusive, be and they hereby are approved, ratified and con- 
firmed. 

The resolution was adopted unanimously. 

Treasurer's Report. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, was 
read as follows : 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to report the condition of the treas- 
ury on January 27, 1909, as follows, reference being had 
to the $12,500 fund drawn from the State under chapter 
325 of the Laws of 1906: 

DEBIT. 

Balance on hand December 23, 1908 $4,151 5i 

To interest on deposits to December 31, 1908. 80 49 



$4,232 00 



CREDIT. 

By paid on approved vouchers : 

loi. E. H. Hall, disbursements $59 43 

E. H. Hall, November salary. . . .300 00 

$359 43 

102. J. B. Lyon Co. 11 00 

103. J. B. Lyon Co 5 00 

104. De-Fi Manufacturing Co 3 50 

105. Henry Romeike, Inc i 62 

106. State Treasurer 103 31 

107. William J. Baxter 17 62 



January 27, 1909 749 

108. Lillie Vreeland , $10 00 

109. J. J. Conlon 4 55 

no. J. A. Cooke... 10 15 

111. De-Fi Manufacturing Co 3 50 

112. Finn Brothers 88 75 

113. E. H. Hall, disbursements $80 69 

E. H. Hall, December salary 300 00 

380 69 

114. Joseph Hawkes 5 40 

115. J. B. Lyon Co. 83 49 

116. George N. Moran, disbursements, $14 07 
G. N. Moran, December salary. . .291 66 

305 73 

117. William Parry , 625 00 

118. John Polhemus Printing Co ,. . . . I5 44 

119. Printers' Ink Publishing Co. 10 00 

120. F. A. Ringler Co ..;..., 8 50 

121. Henry Romeike, Inc ., 2 52 

122. A. H. Stoddard 416 66 

123. David T. Wells 208 33 

124. Typewriter Exchange 7 50 

125. Joseph B. Coghlan 68 00 

Total credit .' $2,755 69 

Total debit 4,232 00 

Balance on hand January 27, 1909. ..... $1,476 31 



Respectfully submitted, 
Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 

Bills Approved for Payment, 

Subject to examination and approval by the Auditing Com- 
mittee, the following bills were approved for payment, their 
sum being the balance of the $12,500 drawn under chapter 
325 of the Laws of 1906: 

A. H. Stoddard, on account of float construc- 
tion $526 00 

A. H. Stoddard, construction pay-roll Jan- 
uary 23 — 252 30 

A. H. Stoddard, January salary $416 66 

A. H. Stoddard, disbursements 12 65 

429 31 



750 Minutes of Trustees 

William Parry, part of January salary $i88 21 

State of New York, interest on deposits to De- 
cember 31 80 49 



$1,476 31 



The following bills were similarly approved for payment, 
being the first accounts chargeable against the $162,500 ap- 
propriated iby chapter 466 of the Laws of 1908 : 

Erie Railroad Co., rental of land and buildings 
for construction of floats, January 20 to 

April 20, 1909 $1,000 GO 

A. H. Stoddard, pay-roll for refitting construc- 
tion buildings, 2 weeks ending January 30. . 580 50 
William Parry, balance of January salary. ... 436 79 

E. H. Hall, January salary $300 00 

E. H. Hall, disbursements I53 70 

453 70 

George N. Moran, January salary. . .$291 66 
G. N. Moran, disbursements... hy 67 

359 33 

David T. Wells, January salary $208 33 

David T. Wells, disbursements 2 85 

211 18 

Edward Weber, hardware 8 90 

Lehmaier & Bro., typewriter letters. 14 25 

Underwood Typewriter Co., duplicator 35 co 

N. Y. Telephone Co., January service 26 35 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing. ., 182 92 

Remington Typewriter Co., ribbons. 7 00 

Amer. Dist. Tel. Co., December service 9 70 

Typewriter Exchange, rentals to February 3. 6 00 

L. R. Hamersly & Co., " Who's Who " 5 00 

Henry Romeike, Inc., clippings, Nov. — Dec. . 7 08 

Title Guarantee & Trust Co., searching 2 50 

Lillie Vreeland, mimeographing 25 25 

J. A. Cooke, mimeographing n 35 

John Wanamaker, mat i 50 

Joseph Hawkes, pictures 15 5^ 

A. H. Stoddard, labor, refitting 'workshop, 

week ending January 25 96 68 

$3,496 48 



January 27, 1909 751 

Death of Hon. Samuel R. Thayer. 

The Acting President requested the Trustees to rise while 
he stated that it was his painful duty to announce the death 
of the Hon. Samuel Richard Thayer, who died in Rochester, 
N. Y., on January 7, 1909. 

Gen. Wilson further expressed the Commission '.s sense 
of its loss. Mr. Thayer was born in Richmond, Ontario 
county, N. Y., December 12, 1837, and was educated at Union 
College, being graduated with honors in i860. Warner Miller, 
Douglas Campbell and Chas. Emory Smith were among 
his classmates. After teaching for two years he entered 
the office of Judge Cornell, in Minneapolis, Minn., to study 
law. He was admitted to the bar in 1865, and attained a 
high rank in his profession before he retired a decade 
ago. Besides his interest in his profession, he was 
deeply interested in the normal schools of Minnesota, 
to the development of which he devoted largely of 
his time and resources. He was appointed Minister to 
the Netherlands by President Harrison, and served from 
1889 to 1893. He was well known in social and commer- 
cial centers in this city. He was a member of the Union 
League Club, the New York Society of Mayflower De- 
scendants and the Huguenot Society of America. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL.D. from Union College in 1892. 
He was recently appointed a member of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission by Mayor McClellan in the nomina- 
tion of two intimate friends, the Hon. Frederick W. Seward 
and myself, and was greatly interested in the approaching 
commemoration. Had he survived he would have been of 
very great assistance to the commission on account of his 
diplomatic experience at The Hague and his knowledge of 
the people of The Netherlands. By his death, therefore, 
the Commission has lost not only a cultured gentleman and 
public-spirited citizen, but also a member whose place, on 
account of his peculiar and eminent abilities, cannot be 
filled. Mr. Thayer who was unmarried is survived by his 
brother, George W. Thayer, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth T. 
Beadle, both of Rochester, N. Y. 



752 Minutes of Trustees 

Death of Hon. L. L. Stillman. 
The Acting President also announced with sincere regret 
the recent death of the Hon. L. L. Stillman, president of 
the village of Red Hook, and stated that his successor in 
office was Hon. Frank E. Burnett. 

Changes Among Ex-OMcio Members. 

The Acting President announced the following changes 
since the ist of January among the ex-officio members and 
trustees of the Commission : 

Mayor John C. Barry of Cortland succeeds Mayor Grove 
T. Maxon; Mayor Randolph Horton of Ithaca succeeds 
Mayor Jared T. Newman; Mayor George H. Minard of 
Lockport succeeds Mayor W. H. Baker ; Mayor Louis T. 
Fisk of North Tonawanda succeeds Mayor Eugene de 
Kleist ; Mayor Edward W. Douglas of Ogdensburg suc- 
ceeds Mayor John Hannon ; President Frank E. Burnett of 
Red Hook succeeds the late President L. L. Stillman. 

Upper Hudson Committee. 

The Acting President stated that in accordance with the 
resolution of January 7 (page 727) the Upper Hudson Com- 
mittee had been constituted as follows, the naming of the 
Chairman being left to that Committee: 

Mr. Charles H. Armatage, Albany ; Hon. Frank S. Black, 
Troy; Hon. D. A. BuUard (President), Schuylerville ; Hon. 
Clifford Bush (President), Corinth; Hon. Frank E. Burnett 
(President), Red Hook; Mr. Henry K. Bush-Brown, New- 
burgh ; Hon. J. Rider Cady, Hudson ; Hon. J. H. Callanan, 
Schenectady; Hon. J. H. Clarkson (President), Cornwall; 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Kingston; Mr. Frederick J. Collier, 
Hudson; Hon. Chas. W. Cool (Mayor), Glens Falls; Hon. 
Walter P. Crane (Mayor), Kingston ; Hon. James H. Doyle 
(President), Fishkill ; Hon. Wm. Draper, Troy; Hon. Chas. 
A. Elliott (President), Catskill ; Hon. James F.' Fitzgerald 
(President), Fort Edward; Hon. John T. Flynn (Presi- 
dent), Castleton ; Hon. James L. Freeborn (President), 
Tivoli ; Mr. Abner S. Haight, 49 Leonard street. New York ; 
Mr. Benj. F. Hamilton, 120 Broadway, New York; Hon. M. 
D. Hanson (Mayor), Cohoes ; Hon. C. W. Higley (Presi- 
dent), Sandy Hill; Hon. David B. Hill, Albany; Hon. 
Michael H. Hirschberg, New'burgh ; Hon. Henry Hudson 
(Mayor), Hudson; Hon. John L. Hughes (President), 



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Wappinger's Falls; Hon. Roswell S. Judson (President), 
Matteawan; Hon. Irving J, Justus (President), Fishkill 
Landing; Mr. Herman Livingston, Catskill Station; Mr. R. 
Fulton Ludlow, Claverack ; Hon. Arthur MacArthur, Troy ; 
Hon. Elias P. Mann (Mayor), Troy; Hon. Benjamin Mc- 
Clung ( Mayor), Newburgh ; Mr. Donald McDonald, x\Ibany; 
Mr. Wm. J. McKay, Newburgh; Hon. John McLindon 
(President), Victory Mills; Hon. W. B. Mooers (Mayor), 
Plattsburg; Hon. Dennis Moynihan (President), South 
Glens Falls; Mr. Wm. Church Osborn, 71 Broadway, New 
York; Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 32 Nassau street, New York; 
Hon. A. F. Quick (President), Rhinebeck ; Hon. Daniel P. 
Quinn (Mayor), Watervliet ; Hon. A. Rowe (President), 
Saugerties ; Hon. W. J. Rockefeller (Mayor), Rensselaer; 
Hon. John K. Sague (Mavor), Poughkeepsie ; Prof. John C. 
Smock, Hudson; Hon. Henry F. Snyder (Mayor), Albany; 
Hon. F. Herbert Sutherland (President), Coxsackie ; Hon. 
Fred W. Titus (President), Athens; Mr. Wm. B. Van 
Rensselaer, Albany; Hon. Horace S. Van Voast (Mayor),. 
Schenectady; Hon. C. E. Vredenburg (President), 
Mechanicville ; Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Albany ; Hon. Robert 
B. Waters (President), Green Island; Hon. Anthony J. 
Weaver (President), Waterford; Hon. Edward J. Wood 
(President), Stillwater. 

Lozvcr Hudson Committee. 

The Acting President stated that by the discharge of the- 
former committees on New'burgh Ceremonies, Old Home 
Week, Local Celebrations and North Hudson, and the ap- 
pointment of the new Upper Hudson Committee, several 
members of the Commission residing below Newburgh were 
left without committee assignments. With the approval of 
the Trustees, he therefore announced the appointment of the 
following committee, to be known as the Lower Hudson 
Committee, its duty 'being to promote local observances in 
the communities along the Hudson between New York and 
Newburgh : 

Hon. Nathan A. Warren (Mayor), Yonkers, Chairman; 
Hon. John E. Andrus, Yonkers ; Hon. James K. Apgar, 
Peekskill ; Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover (President), Irving- 
ton; Hon. Horace W. Boyd (President), Nyack ; Hon. 
Thomas W. Bradley, Walden ; Hon. John H. Coyne, 
Yonkers; Hon. Lyman C. French (President), Dobbs Ferry;: 



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Hon, John Gross (President), Tarrytown ; Hon, Benjamin 
Howe (Mayor), Mount Vernon; Hon, Clarence Lexow, 
Nyack; Hbn, Thomas Lynch (President), Hiaverstraw ; 
Hon. Joel D. Madden (President), Ossining; Hon. Charles 
McElroy (President), South Nyack; Hon. Vincent A. 
Murray (President), Cold Spring; Hon. VV, H. Myers 
(President), Piermont; Mr. Gordon H. Peck, West Haver- 
straw; Hon. Clarence E. Powell (President), Croton-on 
Hudson ; Hon. Cornelius A, Pugsley, Peekskill ; Hon. 
George C. Raymond (Mayor), New Rochelle ; Hon. Fred- 
erick W. Seward, Montrose ; Hon. Theodore H. Silkman, 
Yonkers ; Hon. Isaac H. Smith (President), Peekskill; 
Hon. Arthur C. Tucker (President), Upper Nyack; Hon, 
W. L. Ward, Portchester; Hon. E. L, Wemple (President), 
West Haverstraw ; Hon, J. Du Pratt White, Nyack ; 
Mr. Edward C. Wilson, Peekskill; Hon. John Wirth (Presi- 
dent), North Tarrytown; Mr. J. S. Wood, Mount Vernon; 
Hon. F. G. Zinsser (President), Hastings. 

Nezv Jersey Committee. 

The Acting President announced the appointment of the 
following Committee to secure the participation of New 
Jersey in the Celebration : 

Hon. Edward C. Stokes, Trenton, Chairman ; Hon. 
Franklin ]\f urphy, Newark ; Hon. John F. Dryden, Newark ; 
Hon. John W. Griggs, Paterson ; Hon. Foster M. Voorhees, 
Elizabeth ; Hon. George T. Werts, Jersey City ; Hon. John 
Dyneley Prince, Ringwood ; Mr. James Kerney, Trenton ; 
Mr. Wallace M. Scudder, Newark ; Mr. William T. Hunt, 
Newark; Mr. Henry H. Doremus, Newark; Mr. Thomas 
J. Hillery, Boonton ; Hon. H. Otto Wittpenn, Jersey City; 
Mr. John H. Ramsey, Hackensack; Mr. Matthew C. Ely, 
Hoboken. 

Other Committee Changes. 

The Acting President also announced the following com- 
mitte changes : 

Children's Festivals : President Jacob Gould Schurman 
of Ithaca added. 

General Commemorative Exercises : Hon. Samuel Par- 
sons of New York City, Hon. H. B. Swartwout (Mayor) 
of Port Jervis, and Hon. J. Sloat Fassett of Elmira, added. 

Patriotic Societies: Mr. Edmund Wetmore resigned as 
Chairman and Mr. Stuyvesant Fish appointed Chairman in 
his place, Mr. Wetmore remaining a member of the Com- 
mittee. 



January 27, 1909 755 

Rental of Additional Room by the City of Netv York. 

The Assistant Secretary read the following resolution 
adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the 
City of New York on January 13, 1909: 

Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel be and is hereoy 
requested to prepare a lease to the city, from the Tribune 
Association, by James Barrett, Treasurer, of room 807 in 
the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street, Borough of 
Manhattan, for use of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission, for a period of one year from the date of occupa- 
tion, at a rental of three hundred and sixty-five ($365) dol- 
lars per annum payable quarterly, otherwise upon the same 
terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease of 
room 805 ; the rent to be paid out of the funds of the Com- 
mission for the year 1909; and the Commissioners of the 
Sinking Fund deeming the said rent fair and reasonable, 
and that it would be for the interests of the city that such 
lease be made, the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized 
and directed to execute the same, when prepared and ap- 
proved by the Corporation Counsel, as provided by sections 
149 and 217 of the Greater New York Charter. 

A True Copy of Resolution adopted by the Com- 
missioners of the Sinking Fund, January 13, 
1909. 

N. Taylor Phillips, 

Secretary. 
Com munications Referred. 
From Mr. Martin Schenck, Chief Engineer of Parks, 
Borough of the Bronx, to the American Scenic and His- 
toric Preservation Society and by its Trustees referred to 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, dated New 
York, December 7, 1908, suggesting that the Hudson 
Memorial Bridge across Spuyten Duyvil Creek be a sus- 
pension bridge. To Committee on Inwood Park. 

From Mr. J. E. Sullivan, President of the Amateur 
Athletic Union of the United States, dated New York, Jan- 
uary 16, suggesting an Athletic Day. To Plan and Scope 
Committee. 

From Hon. W. G. McAdoo, dated New York, January 22, 
suggesting that the Hudson River Tunnel system be repre- 
sented in the Celebration. To Plan and Scope Committee. 



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From Mr. Wm. Hoge, dated New York, January 25, sug- 
gesting a Prosperity Parade. To Carnival and Historical 
Parades Committee. 

From Mr. E. H. Horwood, President of Hoboken Board 
of Trade, dated Hoboken, N. J., January 26, concerning 
participation. To New Jersey Committee. 

From Miss C. E. Mason, dated Tarrytown, January 20^ 
concerning proposed pageant in Tarrytown. To Plan and 
Scope Committee. 

Noniijiatcd for Appointiiiciit on Conunission. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations,, 
presented a report recommending the following named gen- 
tlemen for appointment as members of the Commission : 

By the Governor : Mr. William A. Adriance, Mr. Charles 
F. Cossum and Mr. Peter H. Troy, of Poughkeepsie. 

By the Mayor of New York : Mr. Robert Erskine Ely,. 
Capt. A. B. Fry, Mr. Edward H. Harriman, Mr. James J. 
Hill, Hon. Patrick F. McGowan, Hon. Henry Smith and 
Hon. Leslie Sutherland. 

It was voted that the nominations be forwarded to the 
Governor and Mayor respectively with the approval of the 
Trustees. 

Aides to Chairmen. 

The Secretary offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the President of the Commission be au- 
thorized, upon the nomination of the Chairman of the re- 
spective committees, to appoint Aides to such Chairmen, to 
perform such duties in furtherance of the execution of the 
exercises of the Celebration falling within the scope of such 
Committees' functions respectively, as may be duly delegated 
to them. Carried. 

$1,000 Appropriated to Public Library. 
Dr. Kunz, Chairman of the sub-committee on Historical' 
Exhibits, reported that he had been in conference with Dr. 
Billings, Director of the New York Public Library, and that 
the library would make a Hudson-Fulton exhibition of 
books, prints, maps, etc., which would probably last two 



January 27, 1909 757 

months and be held in the Lenox Library building. The 
library would also undertake the preparation of a catalogue, 
and toward this work desired $1,000 from the Commission. 
He, therefore, moved that the sum of $1,000 be appro- 
priated to the New York Public Library toward the expense 
of the Hudson-Fulton exhibit of books, prints, maps, etc.,. 
and a catalogue thereof. Carried. 

$1,000 Favored for an Engineers' Catalogue. 

Dr. Kunz also reported that he had conferred with repre- 
sentatives of the four societies of Civil, Mechanical, Elec- 
trical and Mining Engineers, who had expressed themselves 
in favor of preparing a joint exhibit illustrating the early 
history of steam navigation. He asked the Trustees if, at 
his next conference with them, he would be warranted in 
encouraging them to expect an appropriation of $i,ooo- 
toward their catalogue. 

Mr. Stetson moved that it was the sense of the Trustees 
that $1,000 be appropriated toward the catalogue of exhibits 
illustrating the early history of steam navigation if such an 
exhibition should be arranged by the Societies of Civil,. 
Mechanical, Electrical and Mining Engineers. Carried.* 

Building of the Clermont Not Yet Arranged for. 
Captain Miller, Vice-Chairman of the Naval Parade Com- 
mittee, reported that the Maritime Association of the Port 
of New York had not definitely assumed the responsibility 
for building the fac-simile of the Clermont as had been sup- 
posed. He had obtained estimates of the cost of construc- 
tion and found that it would cost about $10,800 to reproduce 
the external appearance of the Clermont with sham machin- 
ery, and about $38,200 to reproduce it as it actually was 
with bona fide machinery. The great increase in the figures 
was due to the cost of the machinery. Captain Miller was 
of the opinion that the reproduction should be a fac-simile 



* This resolution is an expression of the sense of the Trustees but 
does not carry an appropriation with it. Another resolution will be 
necessary to make the appropriation if the proposed exhibit is de- 
cided upon. 



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of the original throughout. The representatives of the 
Maritime Association were very enthusiastic on the subject 
and it was pro'bable that the Association would contribute 
$2,000 or $3,000 toward the cost of construction. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the matter of the Clermont be 
referred to the Executive Committee with power. Carried. 

Naval Land'uig Place Rccoiiiinciidcd. 

Captain Miller also called attention to the great need for 
a suitable landing place for the officers and men from the 
fleets. He recommended that the municipal authorities be 
requested to build a temporary bulkhead along the river 
front between West 109th and West iiith streets, fill in the 
space between the New York Central and Hudson River 
Railroad tracks and the bulkhead, build a temporary plat- 
form and erect a temporary bridge over iioth street. He 
thought that the Park Department could have this done at 
comparatively small cost. 

Mr. Phillips .uggested the Dock Department as the proper 
department for this work as it had the necessary machinery. 

It was agreed that 'both departnients would have to 
co-operate in the matter, which was left with the Naval 
Parade Committee. 

$3,^)00 Appropriated to General Commemorative Exercises 
Committee. 

The Secretary reported for President Schurman that the 
Committee on General Commemorative Exercises had held 
an important meeting on Friday, January 22d, in the Com- 
mission's headquarters, which was attended by members 
from distant parts of the State. Mr. Samuel Parsons, 
Chairman of the Committee on Children's Festivals, was 
present by invitation. While the functions of the two com- 
mittees are clearly distinct, — the Children's Festivals being 
held out of doors Saturday, October 2, and the General 
Commemorative Exercises being held indoors by the Uni- 
versities, Colleges, Public Schools and learned Societies 
throughout the State on Wednesday, September 29th — yet 
they are so closely allied in their educational character that 



January 27, 1909 759 

they had agreed to co-operate as far as possible. The Com- 
mittee on General Commemorative Exercises had outlined a 
plan for reaching the educational institutions in every con- 
siderable community of the State with literature which 
would help them to hold exercises embracing orations by 
leading citizens, prize essays 'by students and members, his- 
torical tableaux, etc. It was also hoped to secure the hoist- 
ing of flags on municipal buildings and schools during cele- 
bration week, to stimulate local historical and archaeological 
research, and to promote the preservation of local land- 
marks. The great importance of the work of this Com- 
mittee is that it will afiford the means by which all the people 
of the State can participate in the celebration, whether they 
live in or visit the Hudson river cities or not. The plan is 
carefully laid out and well systematized. The Committee 
finds that it can obtain the assistance of a former State 
Commissioner of Education and a former Superintendent of 
Schools, who, with one of the Assistants to the Secretary of 
the Commission, can take the field in person and prosecute 
the work of the Committee in the communities to be 
reached. The plan required an expenditure of about $3,500, 
and he moved the appropriation of that amount for the 
work of the Committee on General Commemorative Exer- 
cises. The motion was carried. 

BUI for Preservation of Highland Scenery Approved. 
Chief Judge Parker, Chairman of the Committee on Hud- 
son River Scenery, presented the following report : 

One purpose for which this Committee was created hav- 
ing been " To promote legislation," this Committee respect- 
fully recommends the indorsement hy the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission of the accompanying bill, entitled 
"An act to establish a state park in the Highlands of the 
Hudson river, as a Memorial to Henry Hudson and Robert 
Fulton, to provide for the selection, location, appropriation 
and management thereof, and .hereby to preserve the 
natural scenery of the Hudson River." The adoption of the 
bill is suitable to the purpose for which the Hudson-Fulton 
Commission was created, and will redound to its credit as 
an enduring tribute to Hiidson and Fulton. What has 
been arranged for as enduring in character in proximity to 



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the city of New York is altogether commendable, though 
local, but the Hudson River extends northward 150 
miles, and Hudson and Fulton had relation to the river 
in its entirety. It was the natural scenery that the early 
navigator discovered and knew, and it was Fulton's revolu- 
tionary changes in the application of steam as a motive 
power of commerce that has 'brought the upper reaches of 
the Hudson nearer to a great metropolis. 

In favor of this bill it may be said that thirteen miles of 
the Palisades having already been protected at a cost of 
$450,000, the even more beautiful and varied scenery of the 
Highlands of the Hudson, which extend fifteen miles be- 
tween Peekskill and Newburgh, will be saved for the People 
of the State of New York, and the State will not be humili- 
ated by the vandalism of trade in the eyes of travellers from 
all parts of this country and all parts of the world. 

Along both sides of the river are highways, rendering this 
park accessible ; conversely, it may he said that this strip 
will add beauty to those highways and eventually afford the 
immediate means of communication along the western shore 
with the metropolis. 

While it is true that this Committee is " Hudson-Fulton " 
in name, and is concerned with providing memorials to the 
man who discovered the Hudson River, and who sailed past 
the Highlands long 'before the establishment of our Repub- 
lic ; also to the man who adapted steam to navigation ; yet 
you are preserving a region full of the memories of our 
Dutch traditions, described in American poetry and fiction^ 
and replete in associations with early American history. 

Your Committee, as individuaL and as a body, has re- 
ceived a considerable number of communications (John 
Bigelow, Herbert Satterlee et al.) expressing the hope that 
the Hudson-Fulton Memorial Commission may provide en- 
during memorials in the way of permanent assets to the 
State of New York. 

Regarding Section XVIII, it may be said that a number 
of property-owners in this region, appreciating the effort to 
preserve this natural scenery, will help this movement by 
turning in their lands at a nominal value. 

The delayed protection for the shores of the Tappan Zee 
presents the problem of saving the remaining Highlands of 
our river from further destruction, with unusual force. 
Careful investigation places the present value of the quarries 
now in operation there at $5,000,000. while before their 
lodgment, undisturbed in its natural beauty, the whole of 
Hook mountain, where the quarries are now in operation. 



January 27, 1909 761 

could have been bought for $25,000 or $30,000. To de- 
lay protection of the natural scenery of the Hud- 
son River until after serious damage has been done, 
and then in preventing the further defacement, to 
be compelled to pay enormously for damage already in- 
flicted, does not appeal ito the practical business mind as a 
position in which the interests of the public should be placed 
or remain unprovided for, and the action taken by some of 
our commercial organizations clearly indicates that view of 
the question. 

The report then quotes letters from Mr. Welding Ring, 
President of the New York Produce Exchange ; Mr. C. H. 
Badeau, President of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, and 
Mr. C. R. Norman, President of the Maritime Association 
of the Port of New York, in favor of the general object of 
the bill. 

The bill itself consists of nineteen sections. 

Section i creates a board of five commissioners to be 
known as the " Commissioners of Hudson-Fulton Memorial 
Commission," to serve without pay but to be reimbursed for 
actual expenses. . 

Sections 2 and 3 relate to the organization of the Com- 
mission, its officers, etc. 

Section 4 authorizes the Commission to select and locate 
lands within half a mile of the river— on the east side between 
the Peekskill campground and the north base of Breakneck 
Ridge, and on the west side between Stony Point reservation 
and the north base of Storm King mountain, excepting lands 
owned by any railway, the State or the United States. 

Section 5 authorizes the acquisition of such lands, and 
rights and easements thereon, by purchase, gift, devise or 
eminent domain, for use as a public park. 

Sections 6 to 16, both inclusive, provide the method of 
procedure in the acquisition of such lands. 

Section 17 requires a report of proceedings to the Legis- 
lature. 

Section 18 appropriates $25,000 for the purposes of the 
act. 

And section iq provides that the act shall take efifect im- 
mediately. 



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Upon motion, the report was received and the proposed 
bill approved. 

Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Committee on Law and 
Legislation, said that while friendly to the idea embodied in 
the report, he felt that he had his hands full with the re- 
sponsibilities which he had already undertaken, and he 
moved that presentation of the bill to the Legislature be in- 
trusted to the Committee v/hich had prepared it. Carried. 

Appropriation Bill Introduced in Legislature. 

Mr. Stetson stated that the Committee on Law and Legis- 
lation, with the valuable co-operation of the Acting President, 
had presented the Commission's request for an appropria- 
tion to the municipal authorities and this matter was well 
under way. 

In conjunction with the Upper Hudson Committee, a ibill 
had been prepared and introduced in the Senate on January 
25, by the Hon. J. F. Schlosser of Ulster county, reading as 
follows : 

AN ACT 

To amend an act, entitled "An act to establish the Hudson- 
Fulton cele'bration commission, and to prescribe the 
powers and duties thereof, and making an appropriation 
therefor," which became a law April twenty-seven, nine- 
teen hundred and six, being cliapter three hundred and 
twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and six. 

The People of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 

Section i. Section nine of the act, entitled "An act to es- 
tablish the Hudson-Fulton celebration commission, and to 
prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and making an ap- 
propriation therefor," being chapter three hundred and 
twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, is 
hereby amended so as to read as follows : 

§ 9. The sum of * [twenty-five thousand dollars] three 
hundred thousand dollars ($^00,000) (in addition to the 
moneys heretofore appropriated to said commission), or so 



* The words in brackets are to be omitted and the words in italics 
inserted as new matter. 



January 27, 1909 763 

much thereof as may 'be necessary, is hereby appropriated out 
of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, 
for the purposes of this act. Such money shall be paid by 
the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller issued upon 
a requisition signed by the president and secretary of the 
commission, accompanied by an estimate of the expenses for 
the payment of which money so drawn is to be applied, of 
which appropriation one hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
($150,000) is to be appropriated and expended by the com- 
mission for the purposes of the celebration upon the Hudson 
river at and northerly of the city of Newburgh, to wit, at the 
cities of Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Hudson, 
Albany and Troy, and the villages of Fishkill Landing and 
Catskill. No indebtedness nor obligation shall be incurred 
under this act in excess of the appropriations herein or 
hereafter made, and such sums as may be provided for said 
commission by the city of New York for the purposes of 
this act. The commission shall as requested by the 
governor, from time to time render to him reports of its 
proceedings. 

§ 2. This act shall take eflfect immediately. 

Mr. Stetson said that it was expected that the Senate 
Finance Committee would give a hearing on the bill on 
Tuesday, February 2d. 

Mr. McKay suggested that arrangements »be made by 
which every member of the Commission would see his 
Assemblyman and Senator and ask their support of the bill. 

Mr. Stetson expressed his approval of the idea. 

$50 a Week for Editor Authorized. 

Mr. Bergen, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
reported that his committee desired to engage Mr. Henry 
Gallup Paine of No. 16 Gramercy Park as editor of the 
Souvenir book. He stated that Mr, Paine was an ex- 
perienced literary man and admira'bly qualified for the work. 

He, therefore, moved that the Committee on Memorials 
be authorized to employ Mr. Paine at a salary not to exceed 
$50 a week, the period of employment to be at the pleasure 
of the Committee. Carried. 



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$2,000 Appropriated for Post Cards. 

Mr. Bergen also reported that he had received an offer 
from F. A. Ringler Co. to manufacture souvenir post cards, 
from designs submitted by the Commission, at the rate 
of $5 or $6 a thousand. These, Mr. Bergen said, 
could be sold for two or three cents apiece and realize a 
substantial profit to the Commission. 

He, therefore, moved that $2,000 be appropriated to the 
Committee on Memorials for the preparation of souvenir 
post cards. Carried. 

National Guard in Military Parade. 

The Assistant Secretary called attention to Gen. Roe's re- 
quest for advice as to the extent to which the National 
Guard of the State of New York should be turned out for 
the Military Parade, and to expressions by the Chairman of 
the Plan and Scope Committee and others to the effect that 
it would be wise to ask for only that portion of the National 
Guard located in New York City and immediate vicinity. 

He, therefore, moved that it was the sense of this Com- 
mission that only that portion of the National Guard of the 
State of New York located in New York City and vicinity 
be invited to take part in the Military Parade. Carried. 

Admission to Official Reviezving Stands Limited. 

The Assistant Secretary reported that applications had 
been received from various sources for allotments of space 
on the official reviewing stands, and suggested the advisabil- 
ity of defining the policy of the Commission so that such re- 
quests could be definitely answered. 

The Acting President said that he thought the Commis- 
sion should undertake to erect only such stands as were 
necessary for the official use of the Commission and leave 
the erection of other stands to private enterprise. In his 
opinion, admission to the official stands should be limited to 
the members of the Commission, their official guests, and to 
contributors to the Subscription Fund if such a fund should 
be raised. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the policy of the Commission be 
as stated by the Acting President. Carried. 



January 27, 1909 765 

Land Renial Authorhed at $3,000 Instead of $2,yoo. 

The Secretary referred to the resolution adopted January 
7 (page 731), authorizing the renting of premises for the 
construction of floats at a rental of $300 a month ; and said 
that such premises, admirably adapted to the purposes of the 
Commission and located at 149th street and Exterior ave- 
nue, near the Harlem River in the Bronx, had been secured 
from the Erie Railroad Company. The best terms upon 
which the lease could be secured, however, were $3,000 for 
nine months from January 20 to October 20, with the 
privilege of a three months' extension for the additional sum 
of $1,000. 

He, therefore, moved that the lease upon these terms be 
approved and the motion was carried. 

Various Committee Reports. 

Interspersed in the foregoing proceedings were brief re- 
ports of progress from the following Chairmen: 

Plan and Scope, by Mr. Seward. 

Aquatic Sports, Captain Miller, stating that there was 
great enthusiasm among motor boat and other aquatic in- 
terests. 

Badges, Flag and Poster, by Mr. Jaccaci. 

Banquet, by Mr. Stetson, stating that they had recom- 
mended the appointment by the Mayor of Mr. Robert E. 
Ely as a member of the Commission in the hope of having 
his valuable aid. 

Carnival and Historical Parades, by Mr. Ridder, stating 
that the construction of floats had been begun. 

Children's Festivals, by Mr. Samuel Parsons, reporting 
co-operation with the Committee on General Commemorative 
Exercises. 

Clermont, by Mr. Olcott, stating that he was in touch 
with Captain Miller, Vice-Chairman of the Naval Parade 
Committee. 

Historical, by Mr. Hoffman. 

Hospitality, iby Dr. Batcheller. 



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Inwood Hill Park, by Mr. John E. Parsons, who said that 
the progress was real. 

Music Festivals, by Commissioner Lindenthal, who said 
that the Metropolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the 
Brooklyn Academy of Music had been engaged for Monday 
night, September 27th. 

Official Literary Exercises, by Gen. Wilson. 

Importance of the Religious Exercises. 

Air. Stetson referred to the absence of any report from 
the Committee on Religious Exercises since the Committee 
was appointed, but assumed that it was actively at work 
like the other Coniimittees. He said that the religious exer- 
cises on the first two days of the celebration were very im- 
portant, not only on account of their nature but also because 
they would tend to arouse in the people the spirit of the 
commemoration. 

The Secretary said that he understood that the Committee 
was at work. 

Mention of Related Events in Official Programme Proposed. 

The Assistant Secretary stated that since the last meeting 
about 750 civic organizations had been invited to co-operate 
in the approaching celebration by appropriate observances. 
Some of them had already responded and declared their 
readiness to hold affairs of dififerent kinds, and had re- 
quested that they be made a part of the official programme. 
There might be doubt as to the expediency of adopting as 
official various unofficial events, but the speaker felt that 
after having invited such co-operation, some recognition of 
it should be extended. He recalled that on the occasion of 
former celebrations in other cities, unofficial events, such as 
meetings of scientific societies, conferences, etc., were men- 
tioned in the printed programmes. He, therefore, offered 
the following resolution : 

Resolved, That upon approval by a vote of the Trustees 
of this Commission in each instance this Commission will 
announce in its official printed programme events appro- 
priate to the Celebration and conducted under other auspices, 



January 27, 1909 767 

such events to be designated as " Related events" or by some 
other suitable term, and so to be marked in the programme 
as to indicate that they are not conducted officially by this 
Commission and that the Commission assumes no respon- 
sibility, financial or otherwise, for them. 

Upon motion of Mr. Stetson, the resolution was referred 
to the Executive Committee for further consideration. 
The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting President. 
182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Gen. Horace Porter, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Maj -Gen F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Oscar S Straus, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Scligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Assistants to tHe Secretary 

Mr. George N. Moran, ^Ir. David T. Wells. 

General Executive Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



771 



il^uliantt-iFuIton (E^Ubrattflu (Eommtfifitan 



Revised to February 5, 1909. 



The names of Trustees are set in italics. 

The names of the JNIayors of the 4 cities of the State, who are 
members of the Commission and Trustees by virtue of their office, 
are designated thus (*). 

The names of the Presidents of 38 incorporated villages along 
the Hudson river who are members of the Commisson by virtue of 
their office are designated thus (t). 



Abraham Abraham. 

*Hon. James N. Adam. 

Edward D. Adams. 

Herbert Adams. 

Wilham A. Adriance. 

John G. Agar. 

Richard B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alphonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Charles H. Armatage. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 

Geo. Wm. Ballon. 

Hon. Theodore M. Banta. 

* Hon John C. Barry, 

Col. Franklin Bartlett. 

Dr. George C. Batcheller. 

Constr. Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

Hon. James M. Beck. 

*Hon. F. Beebe. 

August Behnont. 

tHon. M. S. Beltzhoover. 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. Williain Bcrri. 

Hon. John Bigelow. 

Hon. Frank S. Black. 

Hon. E. W. Bloomingdale. 

Henry L. Bogert. 

G. Louis Boissevain. 

George C. Boldt. 

Reginald Pelham Bolton. 

Hon. David A. Boody. 

Hon. A. J. Boiihon. 

tHon. Horace W. Boyd. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 

Com. Herbert L. Bridgman. 

George V. Brozver. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 

Edward P. Brvan. 



William L. Bull. 
tHon. D. A. Bullard. 
fHon. Frank E. Burnett. 
Cornelius F. Burns. 
tHon. Clifford Bush. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry W. Cannon. 
*Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 
Andrew Carnegie. 
Gen. Hozcard Carroll. 
John J. Cavanagh. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Claflin. 

Sir Caspar Pur don Clarke. 
tHon. J. H. Clarkson. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
N. Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Frederick J. Collier. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook 
*Hon. Charles JV. Cool. 
Charles F. Cossum. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
*Hon. IV. P. Crane. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
John B. Creighton, 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
William J. Curtis. 
Robert Fulton Cutting. 
Frederick B. Dalzell. 
*Hon. Jacob H. Dcaly. 
Hon. Robert W. De Forest. 
Flon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montanye. 
Elias S. A. de Lima. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 
Edward DeWitt. 
George G. DeWitt. 
Cleveland H. Dodge. 



772 



List of Members 



Henry H . Doremus. 

* Hon. Edward W. Dotiglas. 

Dr. James Douglas. 

*Hon. Aiitliony C. Douglass. 

tHon. James H. Doyle. 

Hon. Andrew S. Draper. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Hon. John F. Dryden. 

Capt. Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Eanics. 

*Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 

George Ehret. 

*Hon. Meyer Einstein. 

tHon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Matthew C. Ely. 

Robert Erskine Ely. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet. 

Hon. Arthur English. 

Most. Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Morris P. Ferris. 

Stuyvesant Fish. 

*Hon. Louis T. Fisk. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

tHon. James F. FitzGerald. 

Hon. James J. Fitzgerald. 

Frederick S. Flower. 

tHon. John T. Flynn. 

*Hon. Alan C. Fobes. 

*Hon. IVm. Follette. 

Thomas Pozvell Fowler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Commander W. B. Franklin. 

tHon. James L. Freeborn. 

tHon. Lyman C. French. 

Henry C. Frick. 

*Hon. C. A. Frost. 

Capt. A. B. Fry. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A. 

Capt. Richard H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. John W. Griggs. 

tHon. John Gross. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edzvard Hagaman Hall. 



Benjamin F. Hamilton. 
*Hon. M. D. Hanson. 
Edward H. Harrinian. 

* Hon. Eugene J. Hanratto. 
Arthur H. Hearn. 
George A. Hearn. 

Lieut. Chas. E. Heitman, U. S. N. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

tHon. C. W. Higley. 

Hon. IVarren Higley. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

James J. Hill. 

Thos. J. Hillerj-. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 

Samuel I'crplanck Hoffman. 

James P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Homan. 

* Hon. Randolph Horton. 
*Hon. Benjamin Howe. 
Hon. Henry E. Howland. 
Colgate Hovt. 

Dr. LeRoy W. Hubbard. 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 
Hon. Henry Hudson. 
Walter G. Hudson. 
tHon. John L. Hughes. 
*Hon. Francis M. Hugo. 
William T. Hunt. 
Archer M. Huntington. 
T. D. Huntting. 
August F. Jaccaci. 
Col. JVilliam Jay. 
tHon. Roswell S. Judson. 
tHon. Irving J. Justus. 
Jacob Katz. 
James Kemey. 
*Hon. Albert Kessinger. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
*Hon. C. August Koenig. 
Dr. George F. Kunz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
*Hon. Robert Laturence. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Julius Lehrenkrauss. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Lozv. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 



List of Members 



73 



tHon. Thomas Lynch. 
Col. Arthur MacArthur. 
tHon. Joel D. Madden. 
*Hon. IV. H. Mandeville. 
*Hon. Elias P. Mann. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
Hon. JVilUam McCarroll. 
*Hon. George B. McClellan. 
*Hon. Benjamin McClung. 
Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. Tohn J. McCook. 
Donald McDonald. 
tHon. Charles McElroy. 
Hon. Patrick F. McGowan. 
William J. McKay. 
John J. McKelvey. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
tHon. John McLindon. 
*Hon. Thomas A. McNamara. 
Rear Admiral George IV. Mel- 
ville, U. S. N. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Capt. Jacob W. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills, U. S. A. 
Ogden Mills. 

* Hon. George H. Minard. 
*Hon. W. B. Mooers. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
tHon. Dennis Moynihan. 
Hon. Franklin Murphy. 
tHon. Vincent A. Murray. 
William C. Miischenheim. 
tHon. W. H. Myers. 
Nathan Newman. 
Charles H. Niehaus. 
I^udzvig Nisscn. 
Hon. Lewis Nixon. 
Charles R. Norman. 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien. 
William R. O'Donovan. 
Eben E. Olcotf. 
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 
William Church Osborn. 
Percy B. O'Sullivan. 
Hon. Alton B. Parker. 
Orrel A. Parker. 
John E. Parsons. 
Hon. Samuel Parsons. 
Samuel H. Parsons. 
Dr. Edward L. Partridge. 
Commander R. E. Peary, U. S. N. 
Bayard L. Peck. 



Gordon H. Peck. 

Hon. George W. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

tHon. Clarence E. Powell. 

*Hon. Richard M. Prangen. 

Hon. John D. Prince. 

Hon. Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley. 

tHon. A. F. Quick. 

*Hon. Edzvard Quirk. 

Louis C. Raegcncr. 

John H. Ramsay. 

*Hon. George G. Raymond. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

*Hon. W. J. Rockefeller. 

Maj. Gen. Charles F. Roe. 

Carl T- Roehr. 

Lonis T. Romaine. 

*Hon. Arthur P. Rose. 

tHon. A. Rowe. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett. 

*Hon. John K. Sagtie. 

Col. William Cary Sanger. 

*Hon. A. B. Santry. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren. 

Jacob H. Schiflf. 

Pres. Jacob Gould Schurman. 

Gustav H. Schtvab. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Wallace M. Scudder. 

Isaac N. Seligman. 

Louis Seligsberg. 

Hon. Frederick W. Sezvard. 

*Hon. Daniel Shcehan. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman. 

/. Edzvard Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

John J. Sinclair. 

*Hon. C. M. Slauscn. 

Hon. Henry Smith. 

tHon. Isaac H. Smith. 

*Hon. John K. Smith. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

*Hon. Henry F. Snyder. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 



774 



List of Members 



James Speyer. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Hon. Edward C. Stokes. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

tHon. F. Herbert Sutherland. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Leslie Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

* Hon. H. B. Swartwout. 

George W. Sweeney. 

Stevenson Tajdor. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson. 

tHon. Fred. W. Titus. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Irving Townsend, M. D. 

Spencer Trask. 

Peter H. Troy. 

tHon. Arthur C. Tucker. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lieut. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. 

Warner Van Norden. 

William B. Van Rensselaer. 

*Hon. Horace S. Van Voast. 

John R. Van Wormer. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

William G. Ver Planck. 

Hon. Foster M. Voorhees. 

tHon. C. E. Vredenburg. 



Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Charles G. F. Wahle. 

Capt. Aaron Ward, U. S. N. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

*Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

tHon. Robert B. Waters. 

tHon. Anthony J. Weaver. 

tHon. E. L. Wemple. 

Hon. George T. Werts. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

*Hon. Thomas Wheeler. 

Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Hon. J. DuPratt White. 

Fred. C. Whitney. 

Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Charles R Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

tHon. John Wirth. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

H. Otto Wittpenn. 

Charles B. Wolfifram. 

tHon. Edward J. Wood. 

J. S. Wood. 

Ma;. Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A. 

Gen. Stezi-'art L. Woodford. 

Hon. Timothv L. Woodruff. 

W. E. Woolley. 

William Wortman. 

James A. Wright. 

*Hon. Frederick M. Young. 

Hon. Richard Young. 

tHon. F. G. Zinsser. 



3Fnrrign (CnrrrHpnuiintt (EnituriUnrH 



Dr. A. Bredius, No. 6 Prinsegracht, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft, No. 609 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, The Nether- 
lands. 

Hon. D. Hudig, No. 105 Wijn Haven, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr. W. Martin, No. 26 Emmastraat, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W. Moes, No. 85 Franz von Mierisstraat, Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands. 



775 



QII|atrmrn of OIommttttPH 

(Address, New York City unless otherwise stated) 

(Revised to February 3, 1909) 

Aeronautics : Hon. James INI. Beck, 44 Wall Street. 

Art and Historical Exhibits : J. ' Pierpont Morgan, 23 Wall 

Street; Sub-Committee on Art Exhibits, Hon. Robert W. 

de Forest; Sub-Committee on Historical Exhibits, Dr. George 

F. Kunz. 
Aquatic Sports : Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Pier 19, North River. 
Auditing: Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 280 Broadway. 
Badges, Flag and Poster : August F. Jaccaci, 7 West 43d Street. 
Banquet : Francis Lj^nde Stetson, 15 Broad Street. 
Carnival and Historical Parades : Herman Ridder, 182 William 

Street. 
Children's Festivals: Hon. Samuel Parsons, 1 133 Broadway. 
" Clermont " : Eben E. Olcott, Desbrosses Street Pier. 
Contracts : Hon. I\I. Linn Bruce, 18 Wall Street. 
Decorations and Reviewing Stands : Charles R. Lamb, 22, 

6th Avenue. 
Dedications : Hon. Warren Higley, 165 Broadwa3^ 
Executive : Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street ; John E. 

Parsons, Vice-Chairman. 
General Commemorative Exercises : President Jacob Gould 

Schurman, Ithaca. 
" Half Moon " : Hon. Herbert L. Satterlee, 120 Broadway. 
Historical : Samuel V. Hoffman, 258 Broadway. 
Hospitality : Dr. George C. Batcheller, 696 Broadway. 
Hudson River Scenery : Hon. Alton B. Parker, 3 South William 

Street. 
Illuminations : Hon. Wm. Berri, 526 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
Invitations : Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 60 Wall Street. 
Inwood Park : John E. Parsons, 52 William Street. 
Law and Legislation : Francis Lynda Stetson, 15 Broad Street. 
Lectures : Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 500 Park Avenue. 
Lower Hudson : Hon. Nathan A. Warren, Yonkers. 
Medal : Henry W. Cannon, 10 Wall Street. 
Memorials : Tunis G. Bergen, 55 Liberty Street. 
Military Parade: Maj.-Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 280 Broadway. 
Music Festival : Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, 45 Cedar Street. 
Naval Parade : Chairmanship vacant. Vice-Chairman, Capt. 

Jacob W. Miller, Pier 19, North River. 
New Jersey: Hon. Edward C. Stokes, Trenton, N. J. 
Nominations : Theodore Fitch, 120 Broadwaj^ 



776 Chairmen of Committees 

Official Literary Exercises: Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson, 157 West 79th 

Street. 
Patriotic Societies : Chainnanship vacant. 
Plan and Scope: Hon. Fred'k W. Seward, Montrose, N. Y. 
Public Health and Convenience : Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 181 West 

73d Street. 
Public Safety: Hon. William McCarroll, 154 Nassau Street. 
Reception: Hon. Seth Low, 30 East 64th Street. 
Religious Services: Hon. John G. Agar, 31 Nassau Street. 
Transportation : Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row. 
Upper Hudson : Col. Arthur MacArthur, Troy. 
Verplanck's Point Park: Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Peekskill. 
Ways and Means : Herman Ridder, 182 William Street. 



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111 

Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

February 3, 1909. 

The eighth meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was held pursuant 
to call of the Chairman, at the headquarters of the Com- 
mission, in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street, 
New York City, Wednesday, February 3, 1909, at 3 
o'clock p. M. 

The members of the Plan and Scope Committee were 
invited to be present also. 

Roll Call. 
Present: Mr. Herman Ridder, Chairman, presiding; and 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. 
George Frederick Kunz, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. John E. 
Parsons, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. William B. Van Rens- 
selaer, and Gen. James Grant Wilson. 

Absentees Excused. 
Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Wm. Berri, 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Mr. John LaFarge, Mr. Frank D. 
Millet, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Spencer Trask, 
Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Mr. William McCarroll, Dr. Samuel 
B. Ward and they were excused. 

Historical Pageant Proposition by Mr. Frank Lascellcs. 

Mr. Frank Lascelles and his friend Mr. Forbes Dennis, 
both of London, England, were accorded the courtesy of the 
floor. 

The Secretary, referring to Mr. Lascelles' distinguished 
connection with historical pageantry at Quebec and in Eng- 
land (mentioned on page 533 of the minutes), said that on 
the preceding Saturday he, the speaker, had had the pleasure 



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of meeting Mr. Lascelles and with him going over the sub- 
ject of holding in New York City at the time of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration an historical pageant somewhat after the 
plan of those which he had conducted before. In that in- 
terview Mr. Lascelles had said that he thought, in view of 
what he had heard from the members of certain patriotic 
societies in town, that with the approval of this Commis- 
sion — or at least if this Commission were not opposed — 
an historical pageant might be given by other persons, out- 
side of our responsibility, in the second week of the Cele- 
bration. Such a pageant, it was proposed, would be held 
within an enclosed area, at some place like Van Cortlandt 
Park, to which an admission fee would be charged to the 
general public, but to which the school children should be 
admitted free at certain performances. Mr. Lascelles had 
put his suggestion in such a persuasive way that the Secre- 
tary had spoken to the Acting President of the advisability 
of inviting Mr. Lascelles to a meeting of the Executive Com- 
mittee and Plan and Scope Committee for the purpose of 
expressing more fully his views on the subject. 

The Acting President then invited Mr. Lascelles to ad- 
dress the Committees. 

Mr. Lascelles said that he was on his way from Canada, 
where he had been visiting Lord Grey, to England, and ex- 
pected to sail in a few days. While meeting many friends 
in New York, he found an extraordinary desire to learn 
about pageantry as it was known in England and Canada. 
He used the word pageant, not in the sense of a procession 
marching throug^h the public streets, but rather in the sense 
of a performance within an enclosed area, in which his- 
torical scenes were reproduced as nearly like the original as 
was possible. 

After referring to the enthusiasm which the pageantry 
idea aroused wherever it was understood, he spoke briefly 
of its origin in the early days of the church, when the 
priests had pageants and tableaux in their churches to teach 
their congregations more readily through the appeal to the 
eye. So the idea developed, through the coronation page- 
ants, to the purely historical pageant of to-day. During the 



February 3, 1909 779 

past few years, there had arisen in England something which 
had no more relation to the ordinary conception of a 
pageant than Ober Ammergau has to an ordinary mas- 
querade. Pageantry in England is based absolutely on his- 
tory. The first of these modern pageants had been held in 
his University of Oxford. He had seen a small pageant and 
became enthusiastic over its possibilities. He talked with the 
professors of history, and they decided to have a series of 
scenes in the history of Oxford, true to the minutest details. 
The last of the series of which that was the beginning was 
the Quebec pageant. 

He then drew a picture of one of the scenes enacted on 
the latter occasion ; The Plains of Abraham ; a grand stand 
holding 20,000 persons ; beyond, a long stretch of river ; and 
beyond that, endless hills to the state of Maine. In the 
foreground are Indians singing. They see a great ship 
approach, — the Don de Dieu with Cartier, the discoverer. 
They stop singing and run to their teepees to tell their peof le. 
Cartier lands, the sailors singing. The Indians think they 
are gods and give them presents. Cartier sets up upon the 
cliff a great cross of cedar wood, 35 feet high, bearing the 
arms of France. The Indians make speeches to him. 
Cartier, unable to speak their language, reads to them the 
first chapter of the gospel according to Saint John ; etc. — In 
this enactment, the spectators saw the scene enacted truth- 
fully on the very same spot where the original scene oc- 
curred. The Indians were of the same tribe, and their 
costumes were the same. The white men had the same 
names as their prototypes and sang the same songs. 

He then described other features of the Quebec pageant, 
including the marching of French and English soldiers side 
by side. Referring to the latter, he quoted Lord Roberts as 
saying that he had been too busy with his own battles to be 
moved by them, but that this scene brought a lump to his 
throat. 

That was the spectacular side. But beyond this, the 
pageant had a great educational value. The citizens worked 
for months on the history and the scenes in which their 
ancestors took part, and it aroused their patriotic and civic 



780 Minutes of Executive Committee 

enthusiasm and pride. It also had its social advantages. 
In England, Dukes and Duchesses and dairy maids worked 
side by side in making their costumes and in performing 
in the amphitheatre. It was a wonderfully democratic 
thing. 

Mr. Lascelles said that he came before this Commission 
at the request of a great number of fellow citizens and 
patriotic societies, each of whom wanted to have a part in 
letting others see and know what had been done to make 
this great nation what it is. He thought that nothing could 
be wasted which taught that 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And, departing, leave behind us 
Foot-prints on the sands of time. 

Mr. Stetson said, apropos of this subject, that he had 
recently appeared before the Finance Committee of the 
Senate, accompanied by 20 or 25 Mayors, presidents of 
villages, and other prominent citizens, in regard to an ap- 
propriation for the Commission. He had also conferred 
with Senator Hill who was at the head of the Lake Cham- 
plain Celebration. The Commission in charge of the latter 
have arranged for a celebration lasting a week from July 
4th to July nth. They will begin on Sunday with religious 
exercises at Burlington, in which Cardinal Gibbons is ex- 
pected to participate. On Monday they will have at Crown 
Point a celebration and pageant in which 150 Indians will 
take part. On Tuesday they will proceed to Ticonderoga; 
on Wednesday to Plattsburg ; on Thursday to Burlington ; 
and on Friday and Saturday to other places. They will 
have floats on the lake. At the hearing before the Senate 
Committee on Finance, many questions arose. Senator 
Raines asked whether the basic structures used on Lake 
Champlain could not be used on the Hudson. Mr. Stetson 
replied that that depended on whether the floats could be 
taken through the canal. He said that Mr. Parry had 
hhown this Commission the design of a float not less than 
1,000 feet long, and if the Lake Champlain floats were of 



February 3, 1909 781 

similar dimensions, he doubted the capacity of the canal to 
transport them. The Finance Committee had also asked 
for the particulars of the appropriation sought by this 
Commission. The Champlain Commission had submitted 
its estimates in great detail. Mr. Stetson was confident that 
we would get an appropriation, but it depended on the rea- 
sonableness of what we ask. With respect to Mr. Lascelles' 
suggestion, he had been quite anxious to do something in 
that direction, if it were practicable. Adverting to the 
history of the Hudson, Mr. Stetson called attention to the 
essentially peaceful character of the settlement. Here 
there was no cruelty. Here there was nothing but the 
triumph of peace. 

Mr. Lascelles said that he had been asked to interest the 
Commission in his method as distinct from the moving pro- 
cession. Many patriotic societies desired to have a pageant 
in an enclosed place on the week beginning Monday, October 
4th. It would not clash with the celebration of the preced- 
ing week ; and the Commission was not asked to subsidize it ; 
but the Commission was asked officially to endorse it. 

The Secretary said that when Mr. Lascelles had suggested 
a pageant of that sort as a part of the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration, he had told Mr. Lascelles that it was not the policy 
of this Commission to charge any fee to the exercises con- 
ducted under its auspices. Mr. Lascelles had then sug- 
gested holding the pageant the following week at Van Cort- 
landt Park or on private grounds where an admission fee 
could be charged to pay the expenses, and under those cir- 
cumstances, he thought, the Commission would be relieved 
of responsibility and could not be charged with conducting 
something to which an admission fee was charged. Mr. 
Sackett said he had told Mr. Lascelles that he feared it was 
too late to take up this plan as a free public exhibition, and it 
would be impracticable to hold such a pageant without an 
enclosure, and Mr. Lascelles had replied that his idea was 
not to have it under our auspices, but after and supplemental 
to our celebration with our approval. 

Mr. Stetson thought that if we did that, we might be 
charged with not keeping faith with the people. He said we 



782 Minutes of Executive Committee 

should not let the public get the idea that we were with- 
holding something from it. He suggested that this pageant 
might be given on the plan of the Derby at Epsom — free 
admission to the grounds, but with a charge to enter the 
grand stand. 

Mr. Lascelles said he did not ask for money ; but that the 
pageant be made a part of the celebration. Personally, he 
would not associate himself with it unless it had official 
recognition. The profits, if any, were to go to some charity. 

Mr. Stetson said he though we should provide for a free 
public. There ought not to be two classes, — one free and 
one charged. He asked how the business part of the page- 
ant would be managed. 

Mr. Lascelles said that in England it was usual to get 
some business house to manage it. The Quebec pageant 
cost nearly $200,000. There, the Commission, the official 
guests, the citizens of Quebec and school children were free ; 
strangers were charged for admission. 

The Secretary asked Mr. Lascelles' opinion about Mr. 
Parry's suggestion for a large aquatic float in the river off 
Riverside Drive, upon and around which historical scenes 
could be enacted. 

Mr. Lascelles thought it a charming idea ; but suggested 
that New York history was not confined to the Indian 
period. 

Mr. Parry explained that his project was intended only as 
a climax, and supplementary to the Historical Parade 
already planned for the land. 

The Assistant Secretary called attention to the present 
programme for the six secular days of the first week and 
expressed the opinion that the programme was already so 
full as to make the introduction of a series of daily per- 
formances in a fixed locality inexpedient. And if it were 
held in the second week, it might be regarded as an attrac- 
tion counter to the ceremonies of that week above New- 
burgh and thus be interpreted as an act of bad faith toward 
the representatives of the Upper Hudson. 



February 3, 1909 783 

The Chairman said that after the first week the people of 
the city would be tired out. The pageant would have to 
take place the first week to be a success. 

Mr. Stetson felt that the programme for the first week 
rather barren of day events. He thought that the pageant 
could begin on Monda.y and that there would be ample op- 
portunity for several productions during the week; but he 
wanted the public admitted free. 

Mr. Olcott thought that the Historical Parade already ar- 
ranged for Tuesday, September 28th, would give oppor- 
tunity for the p^irticipation of the historical an^l patriotic 
societies. He believed that more people could witness his- 
torical representations in a moving procession than in a local 
pageant. He thought Mr. Parry's suggestion very attrac- 
tive, though difficult to carry out. But we must work out 
difficulties. Some night pageant on the water would be grand 
and imposing. 

Mr. Parsons said he was most interested in the subject of 
pageantry. He could conceive of nothing more instructive. 
But many things had to be considered, such as where, when, 
and under what circumstances the pageant should be given. 
Quebec had its Plains of Abraham. We were many times 
the size of Quebec, but we had no Plains of Abraham. 
The proposition before the Committee was not a thing to be 
rushed through or passed by. It should be carefully con- 
sidered. It was not in the power of this Committee to 
change the plan already adopted by the Commission. He 
suggested that the matter be referred to a Committee of five 
of whom the Chairman should be one, to be considered and 
reported upon. 

In accordance with this suggestion, it was decided to refer 
the subject to a Committee consisting of Mr. Ridder, 
Chairman, Air. Hall, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Sackett and Mr. 
Stetson. 

The Chairman thereupon called a meeting of the Commit- 
tee for Saturday, February 6th, at 11 o'clock a. m. 



784 Minutes of Executive Committee 

Meaning of Imitation to Co-operate. 
The Assistant Secretary real the following report from 
the Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman of the Plan and 
Scope Committee : 

A recent circular letter w-as sent out by the Commission 
inviting the co-operation of societies and others in the ap- 
proaching Celebration. Several letters have been received 
in response, showing that its purport is not fully compre- 
hended. 

The Plan and Scope Committee therefore report that the 
point to which Acting President Ridder called attention at 
the last meeting cannot be too strongly emphasized and in- 
sisted upon. 

The Commission does not undertake to pay any part of 
the expenses of such co-operation, or to guarantee the pay- 
ment of any. The limited amount of money at its command 
is received from the State, and is accounted for to the State, 
item by item. Its expenditure is made only by the specific 
direction of the Commission, through its own officers. The 
power to expend it cannot be delegated to any other organ- 
ization. 

The invitation extended to societies is the same as that 
extended to individuals and to all patriotic citizens. They 
are welcomed to attend the Celebration, either as spectators 
or participants, and all such voluntary aid as they may 
choose to give, will be fully and heartily appreciated. 

The revised programme already recommends that Friday, 
October ist — Hudson River Day — should be not only the 
day of the Naval Parade, but also should be devoted by the 
people on shore, to fetes-champetres and out door festivities, 
which of course include athletic and aquatic sports. 

These communications and others like them are therefore 
respectfully referred to the Upper and Lower Hudson Cele- 
bration Committees, respectively. 

Appointed by the Governor. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of the 
Governor, dated February ist, announcing the appointment 
of the following named gentlemen as members of the Com- 
mission : 

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Mr. John B. Creighton, No. 44 Court street, Brooklyn ; 

Mr. William A. Adriance of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; Mr. 

Charles F. Cossum of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; Mr. Peter H. 



February 3, 1909 785 

Troy of Poughkeepsie, X. Y. ; Mr. Cornelius F. Burns of 
Troy, N. Y. ; Mr. William Wortman of Hudson, X. Y. 

The Secretary was directed to place their names on the 
roll of the Commission. 



Appointed by the Mayor. 

The Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of the 
Mayor of Xew York, dated February ist, announcing the 
appointment of the following named gentlemen as members 
of the Commission : 

Mr. Robert E. Ely, 23 West 44th street, X'"ew York ; Capt. 
A. B. Fry, Custom House, Xew York; Mr. Edward H. 
Harriman, 874 Fifth avenue, Xew York; Mr. James J. 
Hill, Chase Xational Bank, X'ew York ; Hon. Patrick F. 
McGowan, City Hall, X^ew York; Hon. Henry Smith, 132 
Nassau street, X"ew York; Hon. Leslie Sutherland, Yonkers, 
N. Y. 

Also a letter from the Mayor's Secretary dated February 
3d, announcing the appointment of Mr. Louis Boissevain, 
30 Pine street, X^ew York. 

The Secretary was directed to place their names on the 
roll of the Commission. 

Committee Changes. 
The Chairman announced the following Committee 
changes : 

Aquatic Sports Committee : Capt. A. B. Fry added. 

Banquet Committee : Mr. John B. Creighton and Mr. 
Robert E. Ely added. 

Children's Festivals Committee : Hon. Henry Smith added. 

Lower Hudson Committee : Hon. Leslie Sutherland 
added. 

Upper Hudson Committee : Col Arthur MacArthur ap- 
pointed Chairman, Mr. William A. Adriance, Mr. Charles F. 
Cossum, Mr. Peter H. Troy, Mr. Cornelius F. Burns and 
Mr. William Wortman added. 

Wavs and Means Committee: Mr. Edward H. Harriman. 
Mr. James J. Hill and Hon. Patrick F. McGowan added. 



786 Minutes of Executive Committee 

Riverside Landing Place Discussed. 

Dr. Kunz spoke of the necessity for a suitable landing 
place for the reception of naval guests, and called attention 
to the adjacent plans of the Naval Reserve for a Water 
Gate from 114th to ii6th streets and of Columbia Univer- 
sity for a Stadium from ii6th to 120th streets. He thought 
that instead of putting money into a temporary landing, it 
might profitably be put into some permanent form in con- 
nection with these plans. 

Mr. Olcott said he thought that the temporary dock and 
filling behind the crib might be made in conformity with 
these plans. He believed it was practicable to make the 
temporary approach part of the permanent scheme. 

No action was taken. 

Aerial Race Offered as Part of Celebration. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Courtlandt F. 
Bishop, President of the Aero Club of America, dated 
February 2d, in part as follows : 

" I beg to say that through the generosity of the New 
York World, the Aero Club of America is enabled to ofifer 
a prize for an aerial race up the Hudson River in connection 
with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. I have communicated 
this offer to the Honorable James M. Beck, Chairman of the 
sub-Committee on Aeronautics of the Hudson-Fulton Com- 
mission and have requested that this contest be made part of 
the official program." 

Referred to the Committee on Aeronautics. 

Minutes of Upper Hudson Comuiittee. 

The Assistant Secretary, having received minutes of the 

meetings of the Upper Hudson Committee held on January 

30th and February 2, was instructed to have them printed 

consecutively with the minutes of the Executive Committee. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



787 
Minutes of 

The Upper-Hudson Committee 

January 30, 1909 

The first meeting of the Upper-Hudson Committee of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was held at the 
city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on Saturday, January 30, 1909, 
at 2 o'clock p. M. 

The meeting was called to order by Mr. William Wort- 
man, and a temporary organization was formed by electing 
Col. Arthur MacArthur, of Troy, N. Y., as Chairman and 
Mr. William Wortman, of Hudson, N. Y., as Secretary. 

Roll Call. 

Upon a call of the roll the following members of the Com- 
mittee responded : 

Mr. Charles H. Armatage, Albany ; Mr. Henry K. Bush- 
Brown, Newburgh ; Mr. Frederick J. Collier, Hudson ; 
Hon. Walter P. Crane, Kingston ; Hon. James H. Doyle, 
Fishkill; Hon. Charles A. Elliott, Catskill ; Mr. Abner S. 
Haight, New York City; Mr. Benjamin F. Hamilton, New 
York City ; Hon. ■M. D. Hanson, Cohoes ; Hon. Henry Hud- 
son, Hudson ; Hon. John L. Hughes, Wappingers Falls ; 
Hon. Irving J. Justus, Fishkill Landing; Hon. Arthur Mac- 
Arthur, Troy; Hon. Benjamin McClung, Newburgh; Mr. 
Wm, J. McKay, Newburgh ; Hon. A. Rowe, Saugerties ; 
Hon. John K. Sague, Poughkeepsie ; Hon. Henry F. Snyder, 
Albany. 

Statement by Col MacArthur. 

Col. MacArthur stated that the meeting had been called 
for the purpose of electing officers and appointing sub-Com- 
mittees of the Upper-Hudson Committee and transacting 
such other business as might properly come before the meet- 
ing. He said that considerable active work had already 
been done by representatives of the various cities and in- 
corporated villages along the Hudson River at and north of 



788 Minutes of Upper-Hudson Committee 

Newburgh, prior to the creation of this Committee, and that 
their efforts had been recognized by the Commission, and 
therefore, on January 7th, this Upper-Hudson Committee 
had been estabhshed by the Commission, 

Minutes Read. 

The minutes of the last meeting of the representatives of 
the cities and vihages at and northerly of the city of New- 
burgh, on the Hudson river, were read, at the request of Mr. 
Abner S. Haight. 

Organisation of Conunittee. 

Col. Arthur MacArthur, of Troy, and Hon. Henry F. 
Snyder, of Albany, were nominated for recommendation to 
the President of the Commission, as Chairman of this 
Upper-Hudson Committee. The name of Hon. A. T. Clear- 
water was also mentioned, but it being stated that he had 
positively refused to have his name presented in connection 
with the office, no vote was taken thereon. Upon the call 
of the roll Col. MacArthur received the majority of votes, 
and on motion of Mayor Snyder the recommendation of 
Col. MacArthur was made unanimous. 

Mr. Hamilton moved that the meeting proceed to the elec- 
tion of five Vice-Chairmen, a Secretary and an Assistant 
Secretary and Treasurer. The motion was adopted, and 
the following officers were accordingly elected. 

First Vice-Chairman : Hon. Benjamin McClung, of New- 
burgh. 

Second Vice-Chairman : Hon. Henry F. Snyder, of 
Albany. 

Third Vice-Chairman : Hon. John K. Sague, of Pough- 
keepsie. 

Fourth \Mce-Chairman : Hon. Henry Hudson, of Hudson. 

Fifth Vice-Chairman : Hon. Walter P. Crane, of King- 
ston. 

Secretary: Mr. Benjamin F. Hamilton, of New York 
City. 

Assistant Secretary and Treasurer : Mr. William Wort- 
man, of Hudson. 



January 30, 1909 789 

On motion of Mr. Hamilton an Executive Committee was 
appointed, consisting of the mayors of cities and presidents 
of incorporated villages who are members of the Upper- 
Hudson Committee, together with the Chairman of such 
Committee. 

Extension of Naval Parade to Cohoes Approved. 

Mayor Hanson, of Cohoes, said he understood that it is 
contemplated that the flotilla shall not go beyond the city 
of Troy, and he suggested that it proceed to the city of 
Cohoes. 

On motion of Mr. Hamilton, the matter was referred to 
the Naval Committee when appointed. 

Mr. Scanlon, of Cohoes, said that the purpose in bring- 
ing the matter up was in order to get an expression of 
opinion. 

Mr. F. J. Collier, of Hudson, moved that it be the sense 
of the Upper-Hudson Committee that the flotilla be taken to 
the city of Cohoes, which motion was adopted. 

Local Committees. 

Mayor McClung, of Newburgh, said that heretofore, in 
informal discussions, it had been suggested that the Com- 
mittee in each municipality be limited to fifteen, and he 
thought the present assemblage should come to some de- 
termination as to the various communities selecting their 
committees and reporting. 

Mayor Hanson, of Cohoes, said he did not think the num- 
ber of each local Committee should be limited to fifteen. 

Mr. F. J. Collier, of Hvidson, said he believed that this 
was a proper subject for the Executive Committee to con- 
sider as soon as possible. 

Mayor Hanson, of Cohoes, suggested that the number of 
members of each local committee be limited to fifteen or 
twenty. 

Mayor Snyder, of Albany, said he believed that the num- 
ber to be appointed on local committees should be left lo 
the discretion of the respective localities. 



790 Minutes of Upper-Hudson Committee 

Subscription Funds. 

]\Ir. Charles A. Elliott, of Catskill, stated that at a meet- 
ing held some time ago there had been assessments made on 
the municipalities represented at that meeting, aggregating 
five hundred dollars, in order to defray preliminary ex- 
penses, and he inquired whether all of such municipalities 
had paid their proportionate share. 

The Chairman said that the action referred to had been 
taken by another body, but he believed all the municipalities 
had contributed. 

Mayor Hudson, of Hudson, said that it had been sug- 
gested that a meeting of the former Committee spoken of 
by Mr. Elliott be held immediately after adjournment of 
the present meeting, at which the matter would be con- 
sidered. 

Legislation Committee Appointed. 
On motion the Chairman was authorized to appoint a 
Legislative Committee, for the purpose of appearing before 
the Legislature, and taking such other action as the Com- 
mittee deems best in respect to Legislation. The Chairman 
appointed as such Committee the following: Hon. J. Rider 
Cady, Hudson; Mr. Henry Kohl, Newburgh; Mr. George 
V. L. Spratt, Poughkeepsie ; Mr. William Church Osborn, 
New York City; Mr. Arthur L. Andrews, Albany; Mr. B. 
L. Peck, New York City ; Hon. Samuel K. Phillips, Mattea- 
wan; Mr. E. J. Collier, Hudson; Mr. E. W. Wilson, New- 
burgh ; Hon. M. D. Hanson, Cohoes ; Mr. John Scanlon, 
Cohoes, and Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Kingston, 

Unincorporated Villages. 
Mr. Haight, of New York, inquired whether an}thing 
had been done toward bringing into the movement unin- 
corporated villages, and the Chairman stated that the mat- 
ter would be considered by the Executive Committee. 

N'ai'al Committee Appointed. 
On motion the Chairman appointed the following as mem- 
bers of the Naval Committee: Mr. W. J. McKay, New- 



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January 30, 1909 791 

burgh; Hon. Henry Hudson, Hudson; Hon. Benjamin Mc- 
Clung, Newburgh ; Mr. Benjamin F. Hamilton, New York, 
and Hon. Henry F. Snyder, Albany. 

Mr. McKay moved that the Chairman of the Committee 
be authorized to add such additional members to the Naval 
Committee as might be required. The motion was adopted. 

Committee on Permanent Memorials Appointed. 
The Chairman appointed the following Committee on 
Permanent Alemorials, on motion of Mr. Hamilton : Air. 
F. J. Collier, Hudson; Mr. Abner S. Haight, New York- 
Mr. W. J. McKay, Newburgh; Hon. M. D. Hanson, Cohoes, 
and Hon. W. J. Rockefeller, Rensselaer. 

Coniniunication Received. 

The Assistant Secretary read a communication from Hon. 
A. T. Clearwater, and on motion of Mr. Henry K. Bush- 
Brown, of Newburgh, the communication was accepted and 
placed on file. 

Legislative Appropriation. 

Mr. McKay, of Newburgh, said that the matter of an ap- 
propriation was an important one, and he suggested that the 
representatives from the various communities communicate 
with their respective legislators and urge them to use their 
influence in support of the bill providing for the appro- 
priation, and to take a personal interest in the matter. 

The Assistant Secretary said that he had received a com- 
munication from the clerk of the Finance Committee of the 
Senate, stating that a hearing would be given on the Hud- 
son-Fulton bill, by that Committee, on February 2, 1909, 
2 p. M. The Assistant Secretary urged all present at this 
meeting to attend before the Finance Committee at the time 
mentioned. 

Date of Next Meeting. 
It was moved that when this Committee adjourned it be 
to meet at the Capitol, in Albany, on Tuesday, February 2d, 
at 2 p. M., before the Finance Committee of the Senate. 
Carried. 



792 Minutes of Upper-Hudson Committee 

Upper-Hudson Prograiiuiic. 
Mr. Henry K. Bush-Brown asked if any arrangement had 
been made as to the up-river programme, and the Chairman 
said he understood that the Commission had taken steps in 
that direction. 

Reconuncndcd for Appointment. 
It was decided to recommend the following for appoint- 
ment as members of the Commission: 

Poughkeepsie : Mr. Peter H. Troy, Mr. W. A. Adriance, 
Mr. Charles F. Cossum, Mr. George V. L. Spratt and Mr. 
Robert J. Harding. 

Dutchess County : Hon. Hamilton Fish. 

Newburgh : Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, Mr. F. W. Wilson, 
Mr. Frank N. Bain and Mr. Henry Kohl. 

Matteawan : Hon. Samuel K. Phillips. 

Catskill : Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Cohoes : Mr. John Scanlon and Mr. William P. Adams. 

Albany: Mr. David M. Kinnear, Mr. Arthur L. Andrews 
and Mr. Walter L. Hutchins. 

Thanks to Mayor Sagtie. 
On motion of Mayor Snyder, of Albany, a vote of thanks 
was extended to Mayor Sague, of Poughkeepsie, for his 
hospitality to those in attendance at this meeting. 

Printing of Proceedings. 
Mr. Abner S. Haight, of New York, moved that the pro- 
ceedings of this meeting be prepared by the Assistant Secre- 
tary and forwarded to the State Printer and a sufficient 
number of copies thereof printed. Carried. 
On motion, the meeting adjourned. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton, 

Secretary of Committee. 
William Wortman, 

Assistant Secretary of Committee. 



793 
Minutes of 

Upper-Hudson Committee 

February 2, 1909 

The Upper-Hudson Committee of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission met at the Capitol, in the city of 
ALbany, N. Y., on the second day of February. 1909, at 
2 P. M. 

Hearing before Senate Finance Committee. 
At the time mentioned a hearing was given by the Finance 
Committee of the Senate on Senate Bill No. 184, being an 
act providing for an appropriation of three hundred thou- 
sand dollars to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion. Hon. Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. Arthur L. 
Andrews, Hon. Benjamin McClung, Hon. Arthur Mac- 
Arthur, and Hon. M. D. Hanson spoke in favor of the bill. 

Roll Call. 

After the above hearing the Upper-Hudson Committee 
assem'bled at the Fort Orange Club, and the following were 
present : 

Hon. Walter P. Crane, Kingston ; Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 
Catskill ; Hon. M. D. Hanson, Cohoes ; Hon. Henry Hudson 
and Mr. William Wortman, Hudson ; Hon. Arthur Mac- 
Arthur and Mr. Cornelius F. Burns, Troy; Hon. Benjamin 
McClung, Newburgh ; Hon. Henry F. Snyder and Mr. 
Donald McDonald, Albany ; Hon. A. Rowe, Saugerties. 

Appointments by the Governor. 
The Chairman announced that several additions had been 
made to the Commission, by appointment of the Governor, 
as follows : Mr. Peter F. Troy, Mr. William A. Adriance 
and Mr. Charles F. Cossum, of Poughkeepsie ; Mr. John B. 
Creighton, of Brooklyn ; Mr. Cornelius F. Burns, of Troy, 
and Mr. William Wortman, of Hudson. 



794 Minutes of Upper-Hudson Committee 

Next Meeting at Netvbiirgh. 
Mayor McClung moved that when the Committee ad- 
journs it be to meet at Newburgh, subject to the call of the 
Chairman. The motion was adopted. 

Bill to Permit City and Ullage Appropriations. 

The question of amending the bill now before the Legis- 
lature so as to permit cities and villages along the Upper 
Hudson to make appropriations from their respective treas- 
uries, for the purposes of the celebration locally, was dis- 
cussed iby Messrs. Andrews, McClung. Snyder, Elliott, 
Crane and Burns. 

It was voted that the matter be referred to the Legislative 
Committee with power to incorporate such a provision in a 
new bill, if the Committee should deem such procedure ad- 
visable. 

Thanks to Mayor Snyder. 
A vote of thanks was extended to Mayor Snyder and the 
Albany members of the Committee for their hospitality to 
the members of the Committee in attendance at this meeting. 

On motion the meeting adjourned. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton, 

Secretary of Committee. 
William Wortman, 

Assistant Secretary of Committee. 



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A Brief History of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton with 

Suggestions for General Commemorative Exercises 

and Children's Festivals 



The following pages have been prepared, as stated on the 
title page, primarily with a view to aiding the holding of 
General Commemorative Exercises and Children's Festivals. 
They are here printed in uniform style with the minutes of 
the Commission for the files of the members. They will be 
reprinted as a separate pamphlet, however, for the general 
use of the Commission and for public distribution, and extra 
copies in that form may be obtained by addressing the Sec- 
retary of the Commission. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Sccrctarv. 



HUDSON 

AND 

FULTON 



A BRIEF HISTORY OF HENRY 
HUDSON AND ROBERT FULTON 
WITH SUGGESTIONS DESIGNED 
TO AID THE HOLDING OF GEN- 
ERAL COMMEMORATIVE EXER- 
CISES AND CHILDREN'S FESTI- 
VALS DURING THE HUDSON- 
FULTON CELEBRATION IN 1909 



By EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, L.H.M., L.H.D. 



Copyright icjog 

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THE HUDSON-FULTOX CELEBRATION COMMISSION 
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PAGE. 

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 8oi 

Introduction 805 

The Discovery of the Hudson River 807 

Geographical Knowledge in Hudson's Day '. . . 807 

Status of the World Powers in 1609 810 

Henry Hudson the Navigator 815 

Hudson Enters the Employ of the Dutch 818 

Hudson's Famous Voyage of 1609 822 

The Hudson River 828 

The Invention of Steam Navigation 832 

Naval Science Before Fulton's Invention 832 

Robert Fulton from 1765 to 1807 837 

The Voyage of the Clermont 841 

Fulton's Subsequent Career 846 

An Estimate of Fulton's Genius 851 

General Plan of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 855 

Suggestions for General Commemorative Exercises and 

Children's Festivals 862 

Municipal Authorities and Citizens Generally 862 

Learned and Patriotic Societies 862 

Educational Institutions 862 

Songs 863 

Debates 863 

Essays and Compositions 863 

Tableaux 864 

Exhibitions 866 

Children's Festivals 867 

Books 868 



3(Uustrattona. 



OPPOSITE PAGE. 

Henry Hudson's Last Voyage (Collier) 805 

Map of Hudson's Four Recorded Voyages 816 

The Half Moon 821 

Portrait of Robert Fulton (West) 832 

The Clermont 842 



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Telephones: Beekraan, 3097 and 3098 



President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting President. 
182 William Street, New York. 

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, INIr. John E. Parsons, 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 
Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 

Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 

Hon. Alton B. Parker, Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Scligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Assistants to tHe Secretary 

.Air. George N. Moran, Mr. David T. Wells. 

General Executive Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



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l^uJiamt-iFultmt (Hrkbratwu dummiBBton 



Revised to March 3, 1909. 



The names of Trustees are set in italics. 

■ The names of the Mayors of the 4 cities of the State, who are 
members of the Commission and Trustees by virtue of their office, 
are designated thus (*). 

The names of the Presidents of 38 incorporated villages along 
the Hudson river who are members of the Commisson by virtue of 
their office are designated thus (t). 



Abraham Abraham. 

*Hon. James N. Adam. 

Edward D. Adams. 

Herbert Adams. 

William P. Adams. 

William A. Adriance. 

Hon. John G. Agar. 

Richard B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alphonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. Arthur L. Andrews. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. 

Charles H. Armatage. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 

Frank N. Bain. 

Geo. Wm. Ballou. 

Hon. Theodore M. Banta. 

*Hon John C. Barry. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett. 

Dr. George C. Batcheller. 

Constr. Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

Hon. James M. Beck. 

*Hon. F. Beebe. 

August Belmont. 

tHon. M. S. Beltzhoover. 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 

t Hon. Frank E. Bennett. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. JVilliam Bcrri. 

Hon. John Bigelow. 

Hon. Frank S. Black. 

Hon. E. W. Bloomingdale. 

Henry L. Bogert. 

G. Louis Boissevain. 

George C. Boldt. 

Reginald Pelham Bolton. 

Hon. David A. Boody. 

Hon. A. J. Boulfoii. 

tHon. Horace W. Boyd. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 

Com. Herbert L. Bridgman. , 



George V. Brozver. 
Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce. 
Edward P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
tHon. D. A. Bullard. 
Cornelius F. Burns. 
tHon. Clifford Bush. 
Henry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Herbert Carl. 

*Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 
Andrezv Carnegie. 
Gen. Hozvard Carroll. 
John J. Cavanagh. 
Hon. Joseph JI. Choafe. 
John Claflin. 

Sir Caspar Pur don Clarke. 
tHon. J. H. Clarkson. 
N. Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Frederick J. Collier. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook 
*Hon. Charles W. Cool. 
Charles F. Cossum. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
*Hon. JV. P. Crane. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
John B. Creighton. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
IVilliam J. Curtis. 
Robert Fulton Cutting. 
Frederick B. Dalzell. 
*Hon. Jacob H. Dcalv. 
Hon. Robert IV. De Forest. 
Hon. Charles de Kay. 
James de la Montanye. 
Elias S. A. de Lima. 



802 



List of Members 



;;sg7^~ 



Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. DelVitt. 

Cleveland H. Dodge. 

Henry H. Doremus. 

*Hon. Edward W. Douglas. 

Dr. James Douglas. 

*Hon. Anthony C. Douglass. 

tHon. James H. Doyle. 

Hon. Andrew S. Draper. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Hon. John F. Dryden. 

Capt. Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Eanics. 

*Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 

George Ehret. 

*Hon. Meyer Einstein. 

Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Hon. Philip Elting. 

Matthew C. Ely. 

Robert Erskine Ely. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet. 

Hon. Arthur English. 

Most. Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Morris P. Ferris. 

Hon. Hamilton Fish. 

Stiiyvesant Fish. 

*Hon. Louis T. Fisk. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

tHon. James F. FitzGerald. 

Hon. James J. Fitzgerald. 

Frederick S. Flower. 

tHon. John T. Flynn. 

*Hon. Alan C. Fobes. 

*Hon. IVm. FoUette. 

Thomas Pozvcll Fozvler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Commander W. B. Franklin. 

tHon. James L. Freeborn. 

tHon. Lyman C. French. 

Henry C. Frick. 

*Hon. C. A. Frost. 

Liciit.-Com. A. B. Fry. 

Henry Fuehrer. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Charles H. Gaus. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 

Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A. 



Capt. Richard H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. John W. Griggs. 

tHon. John Gross. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edzvard Hagainan Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

*Hon. M. D. Hanson. 

Robert J. Harding. 

Edward H. Harriman. 

W. R. Harrison. 

Hon. G. D. B. Hasbrouck. 

* Hon. Eugene J. Hauratto. 

Arthur H. Hearn. 

George A. Hearn. 

Chas. E. Heitman. 

Theodore Henninger. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

tHon. C. W. Higley. 

Hon. Warren Higley. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

James J. Hill. 

Thos. J. Hillery. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg. 

Samuel Verplanck Hoffman. 

James P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Honian. 

*Hon. Randolph Horton. 

*Hoti. Benjantin Howe. 

Hon. Henry E. Howland. 

Colgate Hovt. 

Dr. LeRoy W. Hubbard. 

Gen. Tliomas H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

tHon. John L. Hughes. 

*Hon. Francis M. Hugo. 

William T. Hunt. 

Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D. Huntting. 

Walter L. Hutchins. 

August F. Jaccaci. 

Col. JVilliam Jay. 

tHon. Roswell S. Judson. 

tHon. Irving J. Justus. 

Jacob Katz. 

James Kemey. 

*Hon. Albert Kessinger. 

Gen. Horatio C. King. 

David M. Kinnear. 

Albert E. Kleinert. 

*Hon. C. August Koeiiig. 

Hon. Henry Kohl. 

Dr. George F. Runs. 



List of ]\Iembers 



803 



John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
*Hon. Robert Lazvreiice. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Dr. Henry M. Leip::iger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Sefh Low. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
tHon. Thomas Lynch. 
Col. Arthur MacArthur. 
R. J. MacFarland. 
tHon. Joel D. Madden. 
*Hon. JV. H. Mandeville. 
*Hon. Elias P. Mann. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
Hon. William McCarroll. 
*Hon. George B. McClellan. 
*Hon. Benjamin McClung. 
Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. John J. McCook. 
Donald IMcDonald. 
tHon. Charles McElroy. 
Hon. Patrick F. McGowan. 
William J. McKay. 
John J. McKelvey. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
tHon. John McLindon. 
*Hon. Thomas A. McNamard. 
Rear Admiral George W. Mel- 
ville, U. S. N. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Hon. Frank V. Millard. 
Capt. Jacob W. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills, U. S. A. 
Ogden Mills. 

* Hon' George" H. Minard. 
*Hon. W. B. Mooers. 
J. Pierpont Morgan. 
Hon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
tHon. Dennis Moynihan. 
Hon. Franklin Murphy. 
tHon. Vincent A. Murray. 
William C. Muschenheim. 
tHon. W. H. Myers. 
Nathan Newman. 
Charles H. Niehaus. 
J^udwig Nissen. 



Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Charles R. Norman. 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien. 

Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. 

William R. O'Donovan. 

Hbcn E. Olcott. 

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

William Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'Sullivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel A. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Dr. Edward L. Partridge. 

Commander R. E. Peary, U. S. N. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Hon. George W. Perkins. 

Flon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

Hon. Samuel K. Phillips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

tHon. Clarence E. Powell. 

*Hon. Richard M. Prangen. 

Hon. John D. Prince. 

Hon. Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley. 

tHon. A. F. Quick. 

*Hon. Edzvard Quirk. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

John H. Ramsay. 

*Hon. George G. Raymond. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

JVilliam Rockefeller. 

*Hon. W. J. Rockefeller. 

Ma}. Gen. Charles F. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

*Hon. Arthur P. Rose. 

tHon. A. Rowe. 

Thomas F. Ryan. 

Col. Henry JV. Sacketf. 

*Hon. John 7v. Sague. 

Col. William Gary Sanger. 

*Hon. A. B. Santry. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee. 

John Scanlon. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren. 

Jacob H. Scbiff. 

Dr. Gustav Scholer. 

Pres. Jacob Gould Schurman. 

Gustav H. Schwab. 



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List of Members 



Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Wallace M. Scudder. 

Oscar R. Seitz. 

Isaac N. Scliiiman. 

Louis Seligsberg. 

Hon. Frederick IV. Seward. 

*Hon. Daniel Sheehan. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman. 

/. Edzvard Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

John J. Sinclair. 

*Hon. C. M. Slauscn. 

Hon. Henry Smith. 

tHon. Isaac H. Smith. 

*Hon. John K. Smith. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

*Hon. Henry F. Snyder. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. George V. L. Spratt. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Hon. Edward C. Stokes. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

tHon. F. Herbert Sutherland. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Leslie Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

* Hon. H. B. Sivartwout, 

George W. Sweeney. 

Stevenson Taylor. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson. 

tHon. Fred. W. Titus. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Irving Townsend, M. D. 

Spencer Trask. 

Peter H. Troy. 

tHon. Arthur C. Tucker. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lieut. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 



Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. 

Warner Van Norden. 

IVilliam B. Van Rensselaer. 

*Hon. Horace S. Van Voast. 

John R. Van Wormer. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

William G. Ver Planck. 

Hon. Foster M. Voorhees. 

tHon. C. E. Vredenburg. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John IV. Vrooinan. 

Hon. Charles G. F. Wahle. 

Capt. Aaron Ward, U. S. N. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

*Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

tHon. Robert B. Waters. 

tHon. Anthony J. Weaver. 

tHon. E. L. Wemple. 

Hon. George T. Werts. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

*Hon. Thomas Wheeler. 

Hon. J. DuPratt White. 

Fred. C. Whitney. 

Gen. W. C. S. Wiley. 

Flon. William R. Willcox. 

Charles R Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Frederick W. Wilson. 

Gen. J as. Grant Wilson. 

tH'on. John Wirth. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Hon. H. Otto Wittpenn. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

tHon. Edward J. Wood. 

J. S. Wood. 

Maf. Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A. 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. 

Hon. Timothv L. IVoodruff. 

W. E. Woolley. 

William Wortman. 

James A. Wright. 

*Hon. Frederick M. Young. 

Hon. Richard Young. 

tHon. F. G. Zinsser. 



FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT COUNCILLORS 

Dr. A. Bredius The Hague. The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Hon. D. Hudig Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr. W. Martin The Hague. The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W. Moes Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 




I 



Last VuvAGii of IIe.vky Hudson 

From painting by Hon. Jolin Collier in the National Gallery of Britisli Art 
(or Tate Gallery) London, Eng., representing Hudson and companitjns 
■ abandoned by his mutinous crew in Hudson Bay, June 22, 161 1. 



8o5 
INTRODUCTION 



From September 25 to October 9, 1909, the State of New 
York, under the auspices of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission, will commemorate with appropriate exercises 
the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River 
by Henry Hudson in 1609, and the looth anniversary of the 
successful inauguration of steam navigation upon the same 
river by Robert Fulton in 1807. 

While, on account of the nature of the events commemo- 
rated and the necessity for a certain amount of concentra- 
tion in order to make the commemoration effective, a large 
part of the celebration will take place along the Hudson 
Valley, yet the people of the whole State cannot fail to take 
a lively interest in it. The discovery of the Hudson river 
and the successful application of steam to navigation were 
local events only in a narrow sense of the term. In effect 
they were of state-wide, national, and even international 
significance. One brought to the knowledge of Europe and 
opened up to civilization the great river to which, more than 
any other single natural factor, is due the greatness of New 
York as the Empire State and New York City as the Me- 
tropolis of the New World. The other has given to all the 
navigable waters of the earth a value which they did not 
previously possess, has reduced the ocean's waste, in point 
of time, to one-sixth its former dreary breadth, and has pro- 
moted the neighborliness of nations to a degree which can- 
not readily be estimated. These events have contributed 
greatly to the advancement of civilization, and it is a just 
cause for State pride that they occurred within our borders. 

Not the least of the beneficent effects of the order of 
nature which causes time to move in cycles, is the powerful 
influence of the association of ideas which accompanies an- 
niversaries, n the universe were stationery, and we had no 
alternation of light and darkness and seed time and har- 
vest, we should lose not only the physical benefits which 



8o6 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

come from those alternations, but we should also lose the 
means by which to measure time ; we should have no anni- 
versaries ; and we should lack a strong help to human ad- 
vancement. Civilization progresses partly by memory of, 
comparison with and improvement upon, past events. And 
anniversaries, eloquent with memories, come to us like min- 
istering spirits of the past to remind, to teach, to admonish 
and to inspire the present. Thus they recompense us some- 
what for the slipping by of the years. 

So come these two cardinal anniversaries in the history 
of our great State ; and it is proper that our people should 
pause in their customary occupations and take time for the 
contemplation of the thoughts which the anniversaries stimu- 
late. This is particularly true of the Universities, Colleges, 
Public Schools, and Learned Societies throughout the State. 
In the programme as prepared by the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
bration Commission, one day, Wednesday, September 29, 
called General Commemoration Day, has been designed es- 
pecially for appropriate indoor observances in such institu- 
tions. The Chairman of the Committee on General Com- 
memorative Exercises is President Jacob Gould Schurman 
of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. In a similar way, Sat- 
urday, October 2, called Carnival Day, has been designated 
as the appropriate day for Children's Festivals out-of-doors. 
The chairman of the Children's Festival Committee is 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, Landscape Architect of the Parks 
of New York city, 1133 Broadway, New York. 

The authorities, students and members of all educational 
institutions and learned societies, as well as the children of 
the State of New York, are earnestly invoked to make due 
observance of the Hudson-Fulton anniversaries, either upon 
the days named or upon such other day or days during the 
two weeks' celebration as may be most convenient. 

With a view to helping such observances, the following 

pages have been prepared. 

Herman Ridder. 

Acting President. 
Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 



8o7 
PART I. 

THE DISCO\'ERY OF THE HUDSON RIVER. 

Geographical Knoiclcdgc in Hudson's Day. 



Between September 2 and October 4. 1609, Henry Hud- 
son, an English navigator sailing under Dutch auspices, ex- 
plored the river which bears his name in wdiat is now called 
the State of New York. 

To realize the importance of that voyage, it is necessary 
to recall the incomplete state of geographical knowledge of 
America 300 years ago, and the extremely slight hold which 
European civilization had upon this continent at that time. 
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, European 
acquaintance with North and South America, with excep- 
tions to be noted hereafter, was confined almost exclusively 
to the sea shore. Between the advent of the Norsemen upon 
th.e New England coast in the year 1000 or earlier, and Sir 
Francis Drake's voyage to the Pacific in 1579, navigators 
of various nationalities had in a general way followed the 
continental borders from Baffinland down along Labrador, 
Nova Scotia, the Eastern United States, the countries bor- 
dering the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea and the east- 
ern coast of South America, passed through the Straits of 
INIagellan, and gone up the western side of South America 
and North America as far as Oregon. But while that was 
true, European knowledge of the Americas was extremely 
rudimentary for several reasons : 

First, in most of these voyages the coast was touched 
only at intervals and known only in its most prominent 
features. Details had been examined very little. 

In the next place, precise observations of latitude and 
longitude and precise surveys, which are the basis of accu- 
rate map-making, were impossible at that time on account 
of the crude instruments used in navigation and the corre- 
spondingly undeveloped state of marine science. 

In the third place, it was an age when, on account of na- 
tional rivalries, explorers did not freely disclose their dis- 



8o8 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

coveries to the world at large, so that there was difficulty in 
collating, comparing and correcting the observations of dif- 
ferent navigators. 

For these reasons, the maps of the coasts of the New 
World prior to Hudson's time were incomplete, incorrect, 
and absurdly distorted. 

Within these curiously disproportioned continental out- 
lines, the country was almost unknown. The Saint Law- 
rence river had been penetrated as far as Montreal and 
Quebec settled in 1608. At Port Royal, Nova Scotia, the 
French had planned a settlement but it was abandoned in 
1607. One or two of the larger rivers of Maine had been 
entered for a short distance and an English settlement had 
been made at Pemaquid but it was abandoned in 1608. The 
Hudson river had been entered but there was no general 
knowledge concerning it. The James river, in Virginia, 
had been explored as far as the falls at Richmond, 
and the first permanent English-speaking settlement in 
America had been made at Jamestown, A'irginia. in 
1607. In 1608 Captain John Smith explored the 
Chesapeake Bay, but the really remarkable map which 
was drawn from his explorations was not published 
until 1 61 2. From Virginia southward another dreary 
stretch of uncivilized coast reached to Florida. There 
the St. John's river had been entered and a colony at- 
tempted by the French, but the colony had been wiped out 
by the Spaniards, who founded St. Augustine in 1564. 
Ponce de Leon who landed in Florida and De Soto who dis- 
covered the Lower Mississippi, contributed little to accu- 
rate geographical knowledge. Information about the inter- 
ior of the Americas was confined aRiiost entirely to Mexico 
and Peru, from which the Spaniards had extracted, under 
a system of slavery worse than Egyptian, the gold and sil- 
ver which had made them in the i6th century the most 
powerful civilized nation in the world. From Mexico as a 
base, the Spaniards had explored the southwestern United 
States as far north as Kansas and had made some interest- 
ing discoveries, such as those of the Grand Canyon of the 
Coloiado river, the Pueblos of the southwestern Indians, 



Discovery of the Hudson River 809 

etc., but they had planted within the present hmits of the 
United State:^ only one settlement, other than St. August- ne 
before mentioned, namely, Santa Fe, N. M. 

That, in brief, was what the Old World knew geographi- 
cally about the New. It will thus be seen how little was 
known in Hudson's day about North America north of 
Mexico; and with only four permanent settlements north 
of the Rio Grande, namely at Quebec, Jamestown, St. 
Augustine and Santa Fe,* there were few bases on the 
continent from which further explorations could be made. 
Dependence, therefore, was still placed on European navi- 
gators for additional information. Under such conditions. 
it is apparent that the thorough exploration of a great river 
like the Hudson, and the revelation of its commercial pos- 
sibilities to what was then the most enterprising commercial 
people of Europe, was a very valuable addition to the Old 
World's knowledge of the New. 

In order that there may be no misconception as to the 
nature of the honor accorded to Hudson, it should be said 
in passing that it is not claimed that he was the first to 
learn of the existence of the river which bears his name. 
The word " discover " does not necessarily mean to see a 
thing first. Its primary meaning is to uncover or to lay 
open to view ; hence, to show, to exhibit, or to make known. 
Columbus was not the first person to discover America, for 
the Norsemen had discovered this continent five hundred 
years before Columbus' famous voyage; and yet we justly 
call Columbus the discoverer because he made his knowledge 
useful to mankind. 

So it was with Hudson. The sharp re-entrant angle 
in the Atlantic coast which marks the outlet of the Hudson 
river had not escaped the notice of earlier navigators, and 
tlie bend in the shore line and the river itself were clearly 
delineated on maps made before Hudson's day. We even 
Iciiow the names of some of his predecessors in New York 
harbor. The earliest European visitor to these waters of 
whom we have indisputable proof was \'erazzano, who came 

* At Quebec there were only eight survivors in 1609. At James- 
town there were about 200. 



8io Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

in 1524. He referred to the upper harbor as a beautiful 
lake and to the river as " una grandissima riviera " — a very 
large river. He was followed in 1525 by Gomez, who 
Jiamed the river after St. Anthony. Thus, without taking 
into consideration the less easily demonstrated but not im- 
probable claims that French, Spanish and even Dutch traders 
had restored to the river between 1525 and 1609, it is ap- 
parent that so far as the undisputed records are concerned, 
Verazzano had found the stream and Gomez had named 
it eighty-five and eighty-four years respectively before Hud- 
son sailed from Amsterdam. 

But notwithstanding all this, it remains that Hudson 
was first to give to the world an authentic record of care- 
ful exploration of the river to the head of navigation and 
in the true sense of the word to " discover " to mankind 
the extent and resources of this great stream. The asso- 
ciation of his name with the river is perhaps one of the 
strongest evidences of the common consent with which he 
was recognized in the 17th century as the navigator to 
whom the nations were chiefly indebted for their knowl- 
edge of the stream. We are well justified, therefore, in 
calling Hudson the discoverer of the river and in according 
him honor as such. 

Sfafits of the IVovld Poi^'crs in 1609 
In order to understand the conditions under which Hud- 
son made his voyage in 1609, it is necessary to glance at 
the status of the world powers which at that time was very 
different from their status to-day. 

The three leading factors in the political and commercial 
world in 1609, so far as the discovery of the Hudson was 
concerned, were Spain, England, and the Netherlands. Port- 
ugal had made important discoveries in the past and had a 
valuable commerce, but in 1609 she was an appendage of 
Spain and can be disregarded. France had for years been 
engaged in complicated political intrigues, trying to play 
o-1f Spain, England and The Netherlands against each other 
for her own advantage, and, with an exception to be noted 
hereafter, she also can be disregarded in this connection. 



Discovery of the Hudson River 8ii 

Spain had but lately passed the zenith of her greatness. 
For a long time prior to 1588 she had been the greatest 
political, military and naval power on the face of the earth, 
her possessions in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia 
constituting the first empire upon which it could truly be 
said the sun never set. It is almost impossible to-day to rea- 
lize the tremendous strength of Spain in the i6th century 
and even well into the 17th. 

For fort}^ years, prior to 1609, every resource which 
Spain's wealth and influence could command had been em- 
ployed in an effort to crush and subjugate the Xether- 
landers, but without success, and in 1609 a twelve years' 
truce had been agreed upon. Thus, wdiile there was nomin- 
ally peace between the two countries, there was an intense 
hatred on the part of the Xetherlanders for their hereditary 
enemies, which was one of the stimulating causes for Hud- 
son's voyage, as we shall see later. 

Spain had also recently been at war with England, so 
that the English and Dutch peoples had much to draw 
them together in common sympathy against the Spaniards. 
In 1588, Spain had started out with her so-called Invinci- 
ble Armada to invade England, but the English, (aided by 
the Dutch who detained Spanish forces in The Netherlands) 
destroyed the Spanish fleet and thus effectually broke the 
Spanish sea-powder. English merchants, and the English 
government to a smaller extent, had reciprocated the help 
of the Netherlanders by sending them money to aid them 
in their war with Spain, so that although, in 1609, Spain 
and England were apparently on friendly terms, there was 
no love lost between them. 

England, Hudson's native country, had just passed 
through one of the most glorious periods of her history. 
During Queen Elizabeth's reign, the English sea-kings had 
won those great naval victories which laid the foundation 
of England's maritime greatness; manufacture and com- 
merce had been stimulated ; exploration had been encour- 
aged ; genius had been inspired ; and Shakespeare and 
Spenser had shone in the literary world. The spirit of dis- 



8i2 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

covery and commercial enterprise aroused in Elizabeth's 
reign did not abate in 1603 when James I ascended the 
throne, and had an important influence on Hudson's career. 
In 1566, Parliament had incorporated " The Fellowship of 
English Merchants for the Discovery of New Trades," 
called for the sake of brevity the Muscovy Company, or 
Russia Company. Their trade was primarily with Russia. 
Christopher Hudson — possibly a relative of Henry Hud- 
son — was one of the promoters of the Company. The 
formation of the Muscovy Company was follow-ed by the 
organization of other similar corporations — the Turkey 
Company in 1581, the ^Morocco Company in 1585, the 
Guinea Company in 1588, and others. But the great com- 
mercial prize for which the nations were contending was 
the rich trade with the East Indies, and in 1600, the English 
East India Company was formed for oriental commerce. 

In every direction in which the English carried their sea 
tralTfic they encountered the keenest competition from the 
Dutch, for however friendly the two peoples were politi- 
cally, they were jealous rivals commercially. So greatly 
did the Dutch encroach upon the English trade with Russia 
in particular, that just prior to Hudson's voyage in 1609, 
we find the English Muscovy Company and the English 
East India Company co-operating in an elTort to find a 
passage to the treasures of the orient either around the 
north of Europe and Asia or around or through Xorth 
America. It is here that we have the keynote to all four 
of Hudson's voyages. 

Hudson's first recorded voyage was contemporaneous 
with two other important English events affecting Ameri- 
can history. One was the planting of the first permanent 
English-speaking colony in the New World as Jamestown 
in 1607; the other was the flight of the Puritans fror.i Eng- 
land to Holland. Both were related to the history of the 
Hudson river, for Captain John Smith sent from Mrginia 
to Henr}' Hudson certain information which led Hudson 
to explore the Hudson river ; and the other led eventually 
to the emigration from Holland of the Pilgrims, who 



Discovery of the Hudson River 813 

started for the Hudson river but actually landed at Ply- 
mouth, (See footnote on page 831.) 

Turning now to the people under whose auspices the 
Hudson river was explored and New York was first 
settled: The Netherlands had been at war with Spain 
for forty years, and in 1609 had paused to catch breath 
in preparation for forty years more of struggle. The 
resistance of The Netherlands to the domination of Spain 
constitutes one of the most extraordinary and thrilling chap- 
ters in human history. The Dutch were lovers of law and 
liberty, and their war for independence was wonderfully 
like our own. Philip H had deprived them of the popular 
suffrage which they had enjoyed by ancient charters ; he 
forced foreign governors upon them ; he quartered Spanish 
soldiers among them ; he slew thousands of them on account 
of their religion. Then there rose up among them a great 
man, like our Washington of later times, William the 
Silent, who sold all his valuables and consecrated himself 
to the cause of the people. Under his heroic leadership the 
little Netherlands revolted against powerful Spain in 1568 
just as the American colonies revolted against England in 
1775; in 1581 they adopted a Declaration of Independence 
which was a model for our Declaration of Independence 
in 1776; and they fought against tremendous odds until 
they established a Republic, just as the Americans did 
many years afterwards. The heroism of the Dutch people, 
whether fighting in boats on the sea, or on skates on the 
ice, or behind their walls on land, has never been sur- 
passed. In the sieges of Harlem and Leiden and other cities, 
men and women stood shoulder to shoulder for Dutch 
liberties. In these terrible sieges, they had to contend not 
only with Spaniards but also with pestilence and starvation. 
After consuming their ordinary, food they lived on dogs, 
cats and mice rather than surrender. Then they boiled old 
saddles, and the hides of oxen and horses. Then they de- 
voured their boots and shoes ; and then they ate the grass 
that grew between the stones of their streets. At Leiden, 
the Dutch cut the dikes and let in the ocean and the Span- 



8i4 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

iards fled lest they be swallowed up like Pharaoh and his 
army in the Red Sea. 

In 1609, at the beginning of the twelve years' truce, the 
Dutch Republic was as populous as England and more 
wealthy. It was the manufacturing and commercial center 
of Europe; and Amsterdam, from which Hudson sailed, 
was the leading port of the world. 

The people of The Netherlands were not only indus- 
trious, but with their universities and schools they were 
learned and cultured. They loved education. When, after 
the siege of Leiden, William of Orange offered the people 
of the city, as a reward for their heroism, the choice be- 
tween the gift of a university and a remission of taxes, 
they chose the university, and thus came into exist- 
ence the University of Leiden, which has given so many 
great men to the world. The Dutch people were, and still 
are, artistic and inventive. Their art galleries rival any 
in Europe. They dispute with Germany the honor of first 
printing from movable type. They gave the telescope, the 
microscope, the pendulum clock and many other great in- 
ventions to the world. They have aptly been called the 
" Yankees of Europe." Above all. they believed in liljerty 
of conscience and religious toleration, and gave refuge to 
the oppressed of all Europe. Such was the character of 
the people who founded New Netherland, a part of which 
is now New York State, and although the Old Dutch gov- 
ernment and the Old Dutch name have passed away, the 
influence of the Dutch character and institutions has been 
indelible. 

As before stated, the Dutch were powerful competitors 
with England in water-borne commerce, and they had a 
stimulus to this which the English had not. The prolonged 
war with Spain had cost the Netherlanders a prodigious ex- 
penditure of treasure as well as of blood, and they realized 
that they could not maintain a successful struggle against 
their powerful antagonist unless they could replenish their 
purses. In the East Indies they saw a prize the winning of 
which would accomplish a two-fold result, namel}', it would 



Discovery of the Hudson River 815 

increase their power to continue the fight with Spain indefi- 
nitely, while at the same time it would proportionately de- 
crease the resources of the Spaniards. This led to the 
formation, in 1602, of the powerful Dutch East India Com- 
pany, one of the most extraordinary corporate monopolies 
in the history of that period ; and this, in turn, led to the 
founding of the Dutch empire in the East. It was under 
the auspices of this Company, formed primarily for the East 
India trade, that Hudson started on his voyage in 1609 
under the circumstances to be narrated hereafter. 

Henry Hudson tJic Navigator 
It was in the midst of this commercial competition be- 
tween England and The Netherlands, and while both peoples 
were dreaming of a northeast or northwest passage to the 
Indies, that Henry Hudson enters upon the stage of authen- 
tic history. 

All that we know of Hudson is comprised within and 
between the years 1607 and 161 1. He was a citizen of Lon- 
don and was probably born in that city or immediate vicin- 
ity, but we do not know the exact place and date of his birth, 
nor do we know the exact place and date of his death. He 
first appears, on April 19, 1607, with eleven sea-faring com- 
panions, in the little church of Saint Ethleburga, in Lon- 
don, partaking of Holy Communion prior to embarkatioti 
on his first recorded voyage. He disappears from view 
in the mists of the great Hudson Bay on June 22, 161 1, set 
adrift with a few comrades by a mutinous crew to face the 
terrors of an unknown fate. We do not even know how he 
looked, for there is no authentic portrait of him, but fortu- 
nately we know his character by his works. 

It is not to be imagined, however, that Hudson became 
the skillful and daring navigator that he was without hard 
schooling at sea, and we can give a fairly safe conjecture 
as to how he received his nautical training. Alen of the 
name of Hudson were prominent and influential at that 
time and intimately identified with the ]\Iuscovy Company 
and the study of navigation. A Christopher Hudson of 



8i6 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

London, who was living at least as late as 1601 and was 
therefore contemporary with Henry Hudson, was a founder 
of the Muscovy Company under whose auspices Henry 
Hudson made his first voyage. In 1580 and 1581, there was 
in the employ of the Muscovy Company a Capt. Thomas 
Hudson who was a bold and skillful seaman. About the 
years 1581 and 1583 there was in London a Thomas Hud- 
son — probably another Thomas — holding frequent con- 
ferences on marine affairs with such famous navigators as 
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Capt. John 
Davis, and with Richard Hakluyt, the great chronicler. Just 
what relation these and various other Hudsons of the time 
bore to our Henry Hudson we do not know, but we have 
here enough to show that the men of the name of Hudson 
were intimately connected with navigation, and to suggest 
that probably Henry Hudson had had extensive training in 
the service of the English iMuscovy Company before it en- 
trusted one of its valuable ships to his command. The 
nearest ancestor who can be claimed for Henrv Hudson 
with any strong probability of accuracy is an alderman of 
London named Henry Hudson who is thought to have been 
the navigator's grandfather. 

That Henry Hudson had a wife and children we learn 
from his contract with the Dutch East India Company in 
1609, and that once of his children was a young son appears 
probable from the fact that he had with him on his first, 
second, and fourth voyages a boy named John Hudson. 

It is evident that Hudson belonged to a prominent family, 
stood high in the esteem of the Muscovy Company and had 
some standing at Court, for on his last voyage he promised 
to have one Henry Green made a member of the Prince of 
Wales Guard, and, in 1612, vessels were sent out in search 
of him by the Prince of Wales' orders. 

Hudson made four voyages of which we have records. 
The first, second and fourth were under English auspices, 
and the third under Dutch. (See accompanying map.) 

The first was made from April 23 to September 15, 1607, 
in the employment of the English Muscovy Company in an 



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Discovery of the Hudson River 817 

effort to reach China by passing between Greenland and 
Spitzbergen and across the polar region. His ship was 
named the " Hopewell." He reached a height of 81° 30', 
a point nearer the pole than any other navigator up to that 
time, but baffled by the artic ice, he returned to the Thames 
about four and a half months after he started. 

In 1608, from April 22 to August 26, he made another 
voyage under the same auspices, probably in the same ship, 
and with the same object. At first he tried to pass between 
Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla and reached a height of 75° 
30', but was defeated by the ice. Then he returned south- 
ward and tried to find a way through the Nova Zembla 
group but failed. Thereupon he returned to England. On 
this trip, on June 15, Hudson recorded that two of his crew 
saw a real mermaid, half woman and half fish. 

In 1609, Hudson entered the service of the Dutch East 
India Company and made his third historic voyage on the 
Half Moon. 

On April 17, 1610, Hudson started on his last voyage, 
having been fitted out by a new English company formed 
under the auspices of the Muscovy Company, the English 
East India Company, and a number of patrons among the 
nobility. His ship was named the Discoverer. His object 
was to search for a northwest route to the Pacific Ocean 
through what is now called Hudson's Strait. In the follow- 
ing August he entered Hudson's Bay, spent the remainder 
of the season exploring it, and wintered there. During the 
winter Hudson's crew became violently disaffected with 
their master. They found fault with their limited allowance 
of provisions ; they found fault with the strong discipline 
which he tried to enforce, and they found fault with his 
plans to continue his search for a westward passage when 
spring came. At length, on June 22, 161 1, when in the east- 
ern part of Hudson Bay, south of Cape Wolstenholme, the 
crew broke out in open mutiny. By force they put Henry 
Hudson, John Hudson, and seven others, mostly sick and 
disabled, into the shallop. In the boat were also a gun, 
some powder and shot, an iron pot, some meal, a chest of 



8i8 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

carpenter tools and a few otlier tilings. The mutineers 
then cut the shallop adrift and sailed away as fast as they 
could, leaving Hudson and his comrades in the terrible plight 
so powerfully depicted in Collier's famous painting entitled 
" Hudson's Last Voyage." Whither the great navigator 
and his companions w^ent and what became of them — 
whether they died of starvation, or were crushed in the ice, 
or were drowned, or frozen to death, or reached land and 
perished from the fury of the natives — no one knows. The 
mutineers — such as escaped starvation and the attacks of 
the Esquimaux — reached Ireland September 6, 1611. Re- 
turning to England they were at first imprisoned; but later 
they appear to have been released without further punish- 
ment. 

All four of Hudson's recorded voyages were failures so 
far as their original object was concerned, for he discovered 
neither a northeast nor a northwest passage to the East 
Indies, but their secondary results were very important. 
His discoveries of the arctic wdiale fisheries in his first two 
voyages led to the establishment of very valuable sea indus- 
tries both among the English and the Dutch. The third 
voyage led to the settlement of New Netherland. And the 
fourth led to the very profitable traffic with the natives of 
Hudson's Bay wdiich is still maintained by the great Hudson 
Bay Company. 

Hudson Enters tlie Employ of the Dutch 
Prior to entering the service of the Dutch in 1609, Hud- 
son had had relations with that group of geographical in- 
vestigators (including the Rev. Peter Plantius, one of the 
most eminent students of geography in Europe ; and Jodocus 
Hondius, a scientific map-maker and friend of Hudson's), 
whose researches made Amsterdam the center of geograph- 
ical science at that time. This is evident from the endorse- 
ment found upon a translation of a sailing treatise written 
by Iver Boty (or Bardsen), showing how to reach Green- 
land. This treatise was " translated out of the Norsh Lan- 
guage into High Dutch in the yeere 1560. And after out 



Discovery of the Hudson River 819 

of High Dutch into Low Dutch by William Barentson of 
Amsterdam who was chief Pilot aforeisaid. The same 
Copi6,Jn High Dutch is in the hands of Jodocus Hondius, 
which I have scene. And this was translated out of Low 
Dutch by Master William Stere, Marchent, in the yeere 
1608 for the use of me Henrie Hudson. William Barent- 
son's Booke is in the hands of Master Peter Plantius who 
lent the same to me." 

This shows that Hudson, a great student of navigation 
and exploration, had had some connection with the Dutch 
investigators as early as 1608, and it was natural, after his 
return from his second voyage, when he was famous for his 
daring seamanship, that the Dutch should invite him to 
Holland in the interest of the Dutch East India Company. 
As the English Muscovy Company, which was probably 
absorbed in its newly discovered arctic fisheries, put no im- 
pediment in the way, Hudson accepted the call and went to 
Amsterdam. 

The Dutch East India Company, which plays such an im- 
portant part in the story of the exploration of the Hudson 
river, was composed of six different branches in different 
parts of the country, each managed by its own board of di- 
rectors. They w^ere called the Chambers of Amsterdam, 
Zeeland, Delft, Rotterdam, Hoorn and Enkhuizen. From 
these chambers was chosen a general Council of Seventeen 
who were the central governing body. 

In the conferences which ensued between Hudson and the 
Directors of the Company, differences of opinion were de- 
veloped among the Directors. The Amsterdam Chamber 
strongly favored engaging Hudson to search for a north- 
east passage. The Zeeland Chamber strongly objected. It 
was at length decided to pay Hudson his traveling expenses 
and send him back home, with a half promise to hire him 
in 1610. 

While all this was occurring, the French minister to The 
Hague, Pierre Jeannin, at the suggestion of Isaac Lemaire, 
was secretly urging his royal master Henry IV to avail 
himself of the opportunity to engage the great English 



820 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

navigator and secure for France the glory of his possible 
achievements. Learning of this, the Amsterdam merchants 
perceived the necessity of securing Hudson at once if they 
wished to prevent his falling into French hands. But they 
were in a quandary. It would be several months before the 
next meeting of the representatives of the six chambers of 
the East India Company, and if they waited, they were afraid 
they would lose their chance. The Amsterdam Chamber 
therefore resolved to engage him on their own responsibility. 

On the 8th of January, 1609, " the Directors of the Dutch 
East India Company of the Chamber of Amsterdam," on 
the one part, and " Mr. Henry Hudson, Englishman, assisted 
by Jodocus Hondius, on the other part," entered into a formal 
contract. The Directors agreed to man and equip a small 
ship or yacht with which Hudson should seek a passage 
around the northerly side of Nova Zembla, and then pro- 
ceed eastward until he could sail southward to the lati- 
tude of 60 degrees. He was to become acquainted as well 
as possible with the lands he saw and then return and give 
a faithful account of his voyage. For this voyage, as well 
as for the support of his wife and children, the Directors 
were to pay him 800 guilders or about $320. If he did not 
come back inside of a year, they were to give his wife 200 
guilders or $80 more — a rather small policy of life in- 
surance. If, however, he should come back after all, with 
the good news that he had found a safe passage, they were 
to reward him as they saw fit. And if, in that case, the 
Directors should determine to follow up the discovery by 
other voyages, Hudson and his family were to take up 
their residence in Holland and Hudson was to accept em- 
ployment with no other company. 

In making this contract, Hudson, who could not speak 
Dutch, was assisted by Jodocus Hondius as interpreter, and 
in the Dutch copy of the contract preserved in The Hague — 
not the original, but a Dutch copy — Hudson's first name 
is spelled three times " Henry." That was the way in which 
he signed it, and as he was an Englishman it is a mistake 
to call him " Hendrick." On February 25, 1906, Governor 



Discovery of the Hudson River 821 

Higgins gave his official opinion to the efifect that the name 
should be spelled Henry. 

The ship which was fitted out for Hudson was named 
De Halve Maene, or the Half Moon. The people of Hol- 
land to-day are building an exact reproduction of that 
famous vessel and next fall it will be seen in the Hudson 




river just as its prototype was seen 300 years before. It will 
seem like a very small boat when it passes the great ocean 
steamers, 700 feet long, in New York harbor, for it will 
measure only 74.54 feet over all, 58.70 feet on the water 
line, 16.94 feet in breadth, and 10.08 feet deep (English 
measure). It will have three masts. On the foremast will 
be a square foresail and foretopsail. On the main mast will 



822 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

be a square mainsail and maintopsail. On the mizzen mast 
will be a triangular latteen rigged sail. Across the bow 
sprit will be rigged a yard from which will hang a square 
sail called in former times a sprit-sail. The boat, which 
will be of about 80 tons burden, will be high in the stern 
and bow and low amidships, and will look different from 
anything seen in these waters since the facsimiles of Colum- 
bus's caravels went up the river bound for the Chicago ex- 
position in 1893. 

Hudson's Fauwiis Voyage of i6op 
Hudson set sail from Amsterdam on April 4, 1609, 
(N. S.) with a mixed crew of about eighteen Dutch and 
English sailors. From the Weepers' Tower, which, like 
several other landmarks of Hudson's time, still stands in 
Amsterdam, anxious eyes watched the departure of the 
little Half Moon on its perilous voyage. Hudson was two 
days on the Zuyder Zee, then passed the island of Texel and 
sailed up the coast of Norway. On May 5th he rounded 
the North Cape, — where in summer the sun can be seen at 
midnight — and steered toward Nova Zembla. On May 
19th, he reached the North Cape again on the return trip, 
having been baffled by the ice and the refusal of his crew 
further to attempt to find a northeast passage. 

Chagrined at his failure in this direction, and deter- 
mined to win success somehow, if possible, he proposed to 
his crew to search for a northwest passage by one of two 
routes. One route was by way of Davis Strait which had 
been discovered by John Davis in 1584. The other alter- 
native was to go to the coast of America to the latitude of 
40°. This idea had been suggested to him by some letters 
and maps which his friend Capt. John Smith had sent to 
him from Virginia and by which Smith had informed him 
that there was a sea leading into the western ocean between 
New England and Virginia. It is a curious fact that at this 
time, North America was believed to be as narrow at this 
point as it is at the Isthmus of Panama, and the Pacific 



Discovery of the Hudson River 823 

ocean was thought to extend eastward as far as New York 
State. "^ The crew agreed to the latter proposition and 
Hudson turned his prow toward the American coast. 

Hudson reached the American coast July 12th, and on 
July i8th anchored in a harbor on the coast of Maine. 
There he remained long enough to make a new foremast 
from the pine trees that fringed the shore. Then, his un- 
ruly crew having driven the natives from their homes with 
firearms and plundered them, Hudson resumed his voyage 
southward. After touching at Cape Cod, he proceeded to 
a point about 100 miles south of Chesapeake Bay, then 
turned about, coasted northward, and entered the Delaware 
Bay. Finding this shallow stream unnavigable he con- 
tinued up the coast until the daylight of Wednesday, Sep- 
tember 2d. disclosed the low, sandy beaches of the northern 
New Jersey shore, looking like "broken islands."f At 
5 o'clock he anchored in sight of the high promontory be- 
lieved to be the Navesink Highlands on the south side of 
New York Bay. " This is a very good land to fall with 
and a pleasant land to see,'' says Juet at the end of his 
journal for that day. As New York Bay is regarded as 
the mouth of the Hudson River, September 2d is the com- 



*After it was found that the continents of North and South Am- 
erica blockaded the western route to China, the efYorts of the early 
explorer? were directed toward the discovery of a passage through 
North America to the western sea. A singular record of this fact is 
found in the name of the famous Lachine Rapids. Lachine (or La 
Chine, as originally written) is the French name for China, and was 
given in derision to a seigniory granted to La Salle on account of his 
efforts to reach China by way of the Saint Lawrence. What the 
early explorers failed to discover the United States is making across 
the Isthmus of Panama — a short western route to the orient. 

fThe following description is based on the journal of Hudson's voy- 
age kept by his clerk Robert Juet; on the " Historie der Nederlan- 
den " (1614) by Van Meteren, who appears to have had access to 
Hudson's own journal now lost; and on the " Nieuwe Werelt " by 
De Laet who quotes a few words from Hudson verbatim. The refer- 
ences to landmarks by these authorities, however, are so general 
and the latitudes given are so uncertain, that the data in regard to 
localities are open to various interpretations. Students should there- 
fore be guarded against accepting positive assertions concerning the 
precise places of Hudson's anchorages. 



824 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

monly accepted date of Hudson's first personal acquaintance 
with the stream which bears his name. On Thursday, the 
3d, the Half Moon found good anchorage on the south side 
of the bay, beheved to be inside of Sandy Hook. A week 
was spent in exploring the adjacent waters with the small 
boat, during which time the Half Moon appears to have 
been in the Lower Harbor. In this search, " they found a 
good entrance between two headlands," (probably the Nar- 
rows) " and thus entered on the 12th of September into as 
fine a river as can be found." They ascended the river as 
wind and tide served, always anchoring at night. On Mon- 
day, the 14th, they " came to a streight between two points," 
(thought to be the narrow place between Stony and Ver- 
planck's Points) and that day entered the "very high and 
mountainous" region of the Highlands. On the 15th they 
" came to other mountains which lie from the river's side," 
an apt description of the Catskills. By Saturday, Septem- 
ber 19th, the Half Moon had reached her " farthest north," 
which, according to \'an Meteren, was in latitude 42° 40'. 
If this latitude be correct, Hudson's northernmost anchor- 
age was opposite the site of the northern end of the city 
Albany. From this point Hudson sent the small boat to 
explore still farther in the hope of finding deeper water be- 
yond, but in this he was disappointed. Convinced that this 
was not the much desired route to the Pacific, he weighed 
anchor at noon on Wednesday, the 23d, and started down 
stream. By Tuesday the 29th, they had reached " the edge 
of the mountaines, or the northermost of the mountaines " 
(apparently the north gate of the Highlands) where a 
stifif southeast gale between the mountains detained them at 
anchor till Thursday, October ist. On the latter day they 
"got down below the mountaines" apparently to the vicinity 
of Stony and Verplanck's Points. On Friday, the 2d, the 
Half Moon anchored near " a cliffe that looked of the 
colour of a white greene." This clifif is one of the most 
accurately located landmarks in Hudson's river voyage, be- 
ing without doubt the green serpentine outcrop at Castle 
Point, Hoboken. 



Discovery of the Hudson River 825 

Hudson had now been in the Hudson valley just a month, 
and was delighted with it. He found the country full of 
great and magnificent oaks, of a size seldom seen, and an 
abundance of poplars, lindens and other trees useful in ship- 
building. He also found blue plum trees. The lands were 
as pleasant with grass and flowers and goodly trees as ever 
they had seen and very sweet smells came from them. To 
use Hudson's own words : " It is as pleasant a land as one 
need tread upon. The land is the finest for cultivation that 
I ever in my life set foot upon." 

On almost every day of Hudson's sojourn in this delight- 
ful region, the Indians visited the ship, either in friendship 
or hostility. They came in canoes, hollowed out of single 
logs, some of which were capable of holding as many as 
fourteen persons. They were dressed in mantles of 
feathers, deer skins, fox skins and other good furs, smoked 
great red or yellow copper tobacco pipes, wore copper orna- 
ments on their necks, and carried bows and arrows pointed 
with sharp stones. They brought with them green tobacco, 
sweet dried currants, red and white grapes, venison, Indian 
corn, pumpkins, oysters, hemp, beaver and otter skins, and 
other things which they either gave ceremoniously to Hud- 
son and his men or bartered for European knives, hatchets, 
beads and other trinkets. 

At various places along his route Hudson visited the 
native villages, in which he " saw a great store of men, 
women and children." The aboriginal habitation was a 
simple structure with an arched roof, made of bent saplings, 
covered with oak bark. The native bed was a mat of 
woven rushes, a pile of furs, or a heap of leaves. Corn was 
the staple of diet from which they made a bread which was 
excellent eating. Great quantities of corn and beans were 
dried for winter use. Besides corn and beans and the articles 
of food already mentioned, they lived on birds and fish. Of 
the latter the river yielded salmon, mullets, rays and sturgeon 
in abundance. On lare occasions of the highest ceremony, 
they cooked a dog. 

In general, they Avere characterized as " a sensible and 
warlike people, whilst in the highest part the people were 



826 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

more friendly." It was noted, however, that they had a 
" great propensity to steal " and were " exceedingly adroit 
in carrying away whatever they took a fancy to." 

When Hudson landed at various places, he was generally 
received with marks of distinction. At one place " the 
swarthy natives all stood around and sung in their fashion." 

On another occasion ("in latitude 42° 18'," which, if 
accurate, would be three miles north of the City of Hudson), 
the navigator was paid the highest tribute in the range of 
Indian hospitality by their serving up, with a pair of 
pigeons and other delicacies, a fat dog. The latter was 
skinned in great haste with shells which they had taken 
from the river. When Hudson was about to leave this 
village, the Indians, thinking it was through fear, broke 
their bows and arrows in pieces to show their friendliness. 

On still another occasion, at Albany, they came aboard 
with a plateful of venison, made reverence to Hudson, and, 
presenting him with strings of wampum, " made an 
oration." 

Only those who have lived among the Indians or especi- 
ally studied their customs can realize the full meaning of 
these formal ceremonies — the singing, the dog- feast, the 
oration and the wampum strings. 

The friendly relations between Hudson and the Indians 
of the upper reaches of the river had a far-reaching effect 
On the history of the State. On August 29 — less than a 
month before Hudson's arrival at the site of Albany, — 
Champlain and a party of Huron Indians had fought and 
utterly defeated a party of Iroquois at the head of Lake 
Champlain. By this battle, the French incurred the bitter 
enmity of the New York Indians, while in contrast with 
that conflict, Hudson's friendly feast remained in their 
traditions for 250 years. The result was that the New 
York Indians were always more friendly toward the Dutch 
and English pioneers than toward the French, and the 
French never obtained a permanent foothold in this State. 

While at Albany, the Europeans reciprocated the 
aboriginal courtesies by giving their Indian visitors wine 



Discovery of the Hudson River 827 

and aqua vitae, " so that they were all merrie " and one was 
made dead drunk. There is something unintentionally 
pathetic in Juet's record : "And that was strange to them ; 
for they could, not tell how to take it." 

The relations of the white and red men in the lower 
reaches of the river were not, however, always of this 
friendly character. That they were not so, there is reason 
to believe, was due more to the uncontrollable character of 
Hudson's mixed crew than to the master himself. The first 
conflict occurred on September 6th while the Half Moon 
was in the Lower Harbor and while John Colman and four 
others in the small boat were away exploring the neighbor- 
ing waters. In some way, Colman's party incurred the 
hostility of the native j and was attacked. Colman was 
killed with an arrow in his neck and two of his companions 
were wounded. 

International relations were further strained on the 9th 
when three Indians who were visiting the Half Moon in a 
friendly way were made prisoners. One jumped over- 
board and the other two were dressed in red coats. On the 
morning of the 15th, while in the Highlands, these two 
crawled out of a port-hole and swam away, to make trouble 
later. 

On October i, after the Half ]\Ioon had " got down below 
the mountaynes " (or Highlands) on the return trip, an 
Indian, who had climbed up by the rudder to the cabin 
window, was caught stealing Juet's pillow, two shirts and 
two cartridge belts. Thereupon the mate shot and killed 
him. The other canoes near the ship fled, some of the 
occupants jumping out and swimming for shore. The 
ship's boat was manned and put out to recover the stolen 
articles, and when one of the Indians who was in the water 
reached up and caught hold of the gunwale, the cook cut 
off his hand with a sword and he was drowned. 

After these occurrences, it is not surprising that on Octo- 
ber 2d, when the Half Moon was apparently in the vicinity 
of the mouth of Spuyten Duyvil creek, the Indians came 
out in force and attacked the white men. In the unequal 



828 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

contest between hollowed-log canoes and the 80-ton Half 
Moon, and between bows and arrows on the one side and 
firearms on the other, there could be only one resiih. The 
Indians were driven off with a loss of eight or ten killed, 
while the Europeans escaped unscratched to the shelter of 
the Hoboken cliff of green on the other side of the river 
farther down. 

The Half Moon lay at anchor at Hoboken from October 
2d to October 4th, the 3d being very stormy. On the 4th 
she dropped down the harbor and passed out to sea. Then 
Hudson and his crew took counsel as to their next move. 
The Dutch mate suggested that they try for Davis Strait. 
But Hudson was opposed to that venture now. He lacked 
some necessary provisions ; and his crew were so unwilling 
and mutinous that at times they had threatened him sav- 
agely. He concluded, therefore, that it was best to go back 
home. So they kept their prow toward the east and on 
November 7th arrived at Dartmouth, Eng. Thence, after 
some delay, Hudson went to Holland. 

TJic Hudson River. 
The great river which Hudson explored has had many 
names. It was called Cahohatea and Skanehtade Gahunda 
by the Iroquois,* Mahicanituc or Mahican river by the 
Mohican Indians, and Shatemuc by other Indians ; Una 
Grandissima Riviera by \^erazzano, (1524), whence Rio 
Grande, Riviere Grande and Grand River ; Rio de San 
Antonio or River of Saint Anthonyf by Gomez (1525) ; 
Rio de Gamas by the Spaniards (1525-1600) ; River of the 
Mountains by Hudson ( 1609) , or Montaigne Rivier on Dutch 
maps (161 5-1664) ; River Manhattes by De Laet (1625), or 
Manhattans Rivier on Dutch maps (1615-1664); River 
Mauritius or Maurits Rivier from Maurice, Prince of 



* Skanehtade Gahunda in the Seneca dialect means the river beyond 
the openings. The Indians gave the name Skanehtade to the site of 
Schenectady long before the advent of the whites, referring to the 
openings b-tween the Hudson and the Mohawk at Schenectady. 
Gahunda means river. 

t Whence, possibly, the name of the mountain just north of Peek- 
skill, called Anthony's Nose. 



Discovery of the Hudson River 829 

Orange, during- the Dutch period; and the Noort Rivier 
(Dutch period) or North River (English) to distinguish it 
from the south or Delaware River.* Hudson's name has 
displ^Lced all of these except the North river which is ap- 
plied in a limited way to that portion of the river opposite 
the City of New York. 

The Hudson river is very remarkable in several respects. 
In the first place, for 150 miles of its length it is not a true 
river but a fiord. From Albany to the ocean its rock bot- 
tom, vv^ith the exception of a few islands, is below sea- 
level. How far below, is not accurately known. Op- 
posite Storm King mountain, where the engineers of the 
new aqueduct for supplying New York City with water 
from the Catskills hoped to build a tunnel under the river, 
they have bored a thousand feet down into the dirt and sand 
that fill the gorge under the water and have not been able to 
find rock bottom. The shore line at Albany is at practically 
the same elevation as the shore line at New York and the 
tide rises at Albany two and eight-tenths feet. This up- 
ward and downward flowing of the tide, of which Hudson 
took advantage in his voyage, had, of course, long been 
noticed by the Indians who spoke of the river with wonder 
as the stream that flowed both ways. 

The river is also remarkable for its great natural beauty. 
The distinguished German surgeon Dr. Adolf Lorenz, while 
visiting on its shores in 1902, pronounced it more beautiful 
than the Rhine. This beauty, so famous throughout the 
world, is due to very ancient causes; and the person who 
will search beyond the surface appearances for those causes 
will truly find, as Shakespeare says, " sermons in stones and 
books in the running brook." The variety of the Hudson's 
scenery is due to the extraordinary range of its geological 
history. From its source to the sea it is an epitome of 
creation. It rises in the Adirondack mountains which, now 
towering to a height of 5,402 feet, although once much 

* The late John Fiske, in his " Dutch and Quaker Colonies " 
expresses the opinion that the Hudson is also identical with the 
River of Norumbega, but it does not appear to the present writer 
that the identity is satisfactorily established. 



830 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

higher, lifted their heads above the great primeval flood 
when almost all the rest of the United States was still a 
wild waste of waters. The famous Highlands of the Hud- 
son, between which Hudson sailed 300 years ago, are of the 
same ancient Archaean rocks and were once a group of 
islands. The Catskills are more modern and the Palisades 
still younger. The latter were- once a fiery, molten mass, 
and their columnar shape is due to the manner in which that 
mass cooled off. These few facts will indicate what a 
storehouse for fascinating research the Hudson valley is 
for the person, young or old, who will study it with the 
mind as well as the eye. 

Civilization followed Hudson's voyage into the Hudson 
River valley, partly because the valley was beautiful and at- 
tractive, partly because it was fertile, partly on account of 
the very valuable fur trade which was the foundation of 
New York commerce, and partly for other reasons, but 
very largely on account of the relation of the river to other 
lines of water travel. Before the white man's advent, an 
Indian could start from New York harbor, paddle up the 
Hudson to Fort Edward, thence up a little creek, and, mak- 
ing a short carry, resume his journey down Wood creek* 
and pass through Lake Champlain and the Sorel river to 
the St. Lawrence. Thence he could ascend to the Great 
Lakes or descend to the Atlantic ocean. Or, going up the 
Hudson and Mohawk, with a short carry at Rome, he could 
proceed down another Wood creek and by way of Oneida 
lake and the Oswego river to Lake Ontario, and thence, 
either to the ocean or to the remotest regions of Lake 
Superior. The same geological forces which produced this 
network of water connections also formed the almost level 
terrace along which the Indians instinctively made their 
great east and west trail from the Hudson to Lake Erie, and 
along which, at a later date, the white men built the Erie 
canal. The remarkable situation of their territory with 
relation to the Hudson river and these other waters was a 



* The Champlain canal now connects the Hudson river and Lake 
Champlain by this route. 



Discovery of the Hudson River 831 

leading factor of the preeminence of the Iroquois, the most 
powerful aboriginal people in America north of Mexico, 
and, with the advent of European civilization, has been one 
of the most potent causes of the preeminence of New York 
as the Empire State. It is only when this is realized that 
we can fully appreciate the importance of Hudson's ser- 
vices to civilization in making a river with such resources 
known to the world. 

Hudson's voyage was followed immediately by the advent 
of Dutch traders who built temporary habitations on Man- 
hattan Island and at the site of Albany and at these trad- 
ing posts carried on a lucrative fur trade with the Indians. 
In 1620, the Puritans in Holland asked permission to go to 
the North river to settle, and although the permission was 
refused, they actually started out for New Netherland. 
Rough weather, however, compelled them to take refuge in- 
side of Cape Cod, and they eventually settled at Plymouth 
instead of on Manhattan Island.* 

Although a few traders' huts had been erected at Man- 
hattan as early as 1613, and also at the site of Albany about 
that time, it was not until 1624 that a permanent settlement 
was effected at Albany and 1626 at New York. 

From that time the Colony grew steadily. New Nether- 
land was captured by the English in 1664; recaptured by 
the Dutch in 1673 ; and repossessed by the English in 1674. 
For over a century it remained a colony of Great Britain. 
Then came the American Revolution and American Inde- 
pendence. In 1807, twenty-four years after the evacua- 
tion of New York by the British, occurred the other great 
event which the Hudson-Fulton celebration commemorates, 
namely, the successful application of steam to navigation 
by Robert Fulton on the river which Hudson had explored. 

* Bradford's " History of Plimouth Plantation " says : " After 
longe beating at sea, they fell with that land which is called 
Cape Cod. . . After some deliberation they tacked aboute and 
resolved to stand for ye southward (ye wind & weather being 
faire) to finde some place aboute Hudsons river for their habita- 
tion. But after they had sailed yt course aboute halfe ye day, 
thev fell amongst deangerous shoulds and roring breakers. . . 
and as they conceived them selves in great danger, they resolved 
to bear up againe for the Cape." 



832 

PART II. 

THE INVENTION OF STEAM NAVIGATION. 
The State of Naval Science Before Fulton's Invention. 



When, in the morning of Creation, the waters under 
the firmament were gathered together and the dry land ap- 
peared, not only was a habitation for man prepared, but 
limits were set to his natural movements. To overcome the 
natural barriers which the oceans, seas, lakes and rivers of 
the earth presented, he has applied his God-given faculties 
ever since. 

To appreciate the vast importance of the successful ap- 
plication of steam to navigation by Robert Fulton, one must 
compare the giant stride which has been made in that 
science in the 102 years since the voyage of the Clermont 
with the thousands of years of slow progress before the 
invention of the steamboat. 

The Hudson river has seen every stage of nautical de- 
velopment, from the earliest to the most modern. The first 
attempts at navigation by primitive man were doubtless by 
means of a floating log. Then he learned to hollow the 
log by fire and later to construct his boat from the bark of 
the tree. The first natural source of power for propulsion 
was the human muscle. The second source of power was 
the wind, and the first sails were the leafy boughs of trees 
and the skins of animals. With the art of weaving came 
cloth sails. After the lapse of thousands upon thousands 
of years, we find at the beginning of the Christian era that 
human muscle and the winds were still the only means yet 
employed for the propulsion of ships. The galleys of 
Imperial Rome sailed the Mediterranean and ventured as 
far as Britain; but the ocean was a sea of darkness which 
their imagination peopled with horrible monsters, and to 
enter which they believed meant certain death. 

Nearly fifteen hundred years more elapsed before the 
great mariner appeared who dared brave the unknown ter- 




Robert Fulton 

From painting by Benjamin West in possession of Fulton's grandson, Mr. 
Robert Fulton Ludlow of Claverack, N, Y. 



Invention of Steam Navigation 833 

rors of that sea; but Columbus' voyage, occupying 36 days 
from the Canaries to the West Indies, was the triumph of 
this personal character, genius and courage and not of any 
new invention in navigation, for his little caravels did not 
differ from similar vessels of the period, and while they 
showed the progress that had been made in ship-building in 
fifteen centuries, yet they were subject to all the vicissitudes 
of wind-blown ships. 

Another century elapsed and Hudson's yacht entered New 
York harbor and spent five days sailing over the course to 
Albany, which Fulton covered in thirty-two running hours 
in August 1807, and which the modern steamboat covers 
in nine and one-half hours. But still no new force had been 
discovered or invented up to Hudson's time. Even the tri- 
angular jib and fore-and-aft sails had not been devised nor 
could a ship perform the paradoxical feat of later sailing 
vessels of " sailing on the wind." It took Hudson 34 days 
to sail from Sandy Hook to Dartmouth, only two days less 
than Columbus consumed between the Canaries and West 
Indies. 

Time rolled on and nearly two more centuries elapsed. 
The sailing vessel was developed to a high degree of perfec- 
tion, and the full-rigged ship as she stood up New York 
harbor at the beginning of the 19th century was truly a 
beautiful and impressive sight with her cloud-like masses 
of canvas swelling in the breeze. But still she was the 
slave of old King ^olus and could move only by his 
favor. She had no independence of action, no automatic 
power of motion ; and it took her about as long to cross 
the ocean as it took Columbus and Hudson. It was not 
only from the political slavery of some powerful earthly 
monarch, but from the slavery of the winds, that the seas 
were now about to be emancipated by the aid of Robert 
Fulton. 

In the year 1765, the year of Fulton's birth, the thought- 
ful mind of a Scotch youth of 29 years living in Glasgow 
was turned toward the inventions which were to make 
it possible for Fulton to revolutionize the art of pro- 



834 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

pelling vessels. The history of science and invention is 
so full of cases in which great discoveries have resulted 
from the observation of simple things, that we may take 
this power of appreciating the significance of small things 
as one of the criteria of a great mind. Thousands of per- 
sons had seen that lamp swinging in Pisa cathedral before 
Galileo found in it the law of the pendulum. Apples have 
fallen from trees since the Garden of Eden, but it re- 
mained for Newton to find in that familiar sight his great 
discovery of the universal law of gravitation. There were 
steam engines in operation before James Watt was born, 
but his alert and comprehending faculties found in the 
contemplation of a common tea-kettle, according to popular 
tradition, the suggestions of his great inventions which 
revolutionized the use of steam and made him the father 
of the steam engine. 

During the next 10 years after Watt's first experiments 
inventive genius in England and France was actively en- 
gaged in developing the steam engine. Then came the in- 
terruption of the American Revolution. After the Revolu- 
tion, a sort of mania for driving boats by steam began to 
prevail. In 1785, James Rumsey was experimenting with 
mechanical and steam propulsion, but it was not until 1786 
that we find " the first boat successfully propelled by steam 
in America," according to Admiral Preble, in John Fitch's 
clumsy contrivance which was tried on the Delaware July 
27th of that year. This boat was worked by gangs of oars 
or paddles arranged in a framework at the boat's sides. 

At the conclusion of this paper we shall see why the 
priority of the experiments of Fitch and others need not 
deprive Fulton of the distinction which is popularly ac- 
corded to him as " the father of American steamboating." 
But to shut our eyes to the minor successes of Fulton's 
predecessors is unjust to those struggling and self-sacrific- 
ing pioneers, and it is unjust to Fulton himself, for it dis- 
qualifies us from forming a true estimate of the genius and 
character by which Fulton was able not only to solve the 
profound problems of a new science, but also to inspire the 



Invention of Steam Navigation 835 

confidence and command the material resources which were 
needed to put his ideas into practical operation. 

In August, 1787, Fitch ran an improved boat (the second 
American steamboat) on the Delaware at Philadelphia. On 
December 3, 1787, James Rumsey ran the third steamboat, 
according to Preble's tables. This boat, operated at 
Shepardstown, on the Potomac, was propelled by means of 
water sucked in at the bow and expelled at the stern by 
-the force of steam. The fourth steamboat was Fitch's 
which ran from Philadelphia to Burlington in 1788. It was 
driven by paddles at the stern. In 1789, Fitch tried the 
fifth steamboat at Philadelphia. It made eight miles an 
hour and in 1790 ran regularly as a packet. The sixth 
steamboat was a stern-wheeler, built by Samuel Morey of 
Connecticut. It sailed from Hartford to New York in 
1794, having on board Chancellor Robert R. Livingston and 
other well-known citizens of New York. 

In 1796, Fitch transferred his activities to New York 
City. In that year he operated on the old Collect pond, 
which once existed where now the Criminal Courts building 
and City prison stand, the seventh American steamboat. 
In comparison with his first attempt the progress of a dec- 
ade was very apparent. His first production in 1786, 
though a practical w^orking boat, was a clumsy affair, but 
one remove from oars worked by hand power. His boat 
of 1796 combined with the side wheels (which had proved 
moderately effective on the Delaware) the screw propeller. 
It has been claimed that both Chancellor Livingston and 
Fulton were aboard of the boat, but Fulton was abroad at 
this time. It is quite likely, however, that the Chancellor 
was a spectator if not a passenger. 

The model of Fitch's boat in the New York Historical 
Society, made by John Hutchings of Williamsburgh in 
185 1, gives an excellent idea of the craft. The boiler con- 
sisted of a ten-gallon iron kettle covered with a thick plank 
lid firmly fastened down by a transverse iron bar. The 
cylinders were of wood. After she had gone around the 
pond a couple of times she had to stop and take more 



836 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

water into her primitive boiler. Fitch was undoubtedly a 
genius and was working on the right track, but un- 
fortunately could not command the means to pay for the 
proper machinery. 

Another steamboat by ]\Iorey on the Connecticut in 1797 
comes eighth in order. In the same year Chancellor Liv- 
ingston appears as more than an interested spectator of 
others' experiments. The extent to which this great man 
went into both the theory and practice of steam navigation 
is realized probably by few. He is remembered for his 
brilliant career at the bar, on the bench, in the Continental 
Congress where he was a member of the Committee ap- 
pointed to prepare the Declaration of Independence ; in the 
office of Secretary for Foreign Affairs ; as Minister to 
France and one of the negotiators of the Louisiana Pur- 
chase; but in connection with steam navigation, he is gen- 
erally regarded simply as the wealthy and generous patron 
of Fulton. As a matter of fact, if there had been no Ful- 
ton, Livingston himself might have been the father of the 
steamboat. 

Living in his once beautiful but now sadly decayed 
mansion about one and one-half miles north of Tivoli and 
overlooking the Hudson, he had reflected profoundly on 
the subject of navigating that stream long before he first 
met Fulton. The extent to which he had gone into the sub- 
ject is notably reflected in a letter written in this house 
January 26, 1799, to President Jefferson, in which the de- 
fects of Watt's engine and the principles of steam mechanics 
are discussed. In March, 1798, he employed one Nisbet to 
construct a steamboat according t6 his ideas at a place 
south of Tivoli called De Koven's Bay; and this was the 
ninth American steamboat. This year. Fitch died, and the 
monopoly of steam navigation which the Xew York Legis- 
lature had given him in 1787 was annulled and given to 
Livingston for 20 years. 

The limits of this paper will not permit us to do more 
than mention by name five other American steamboacs 
which appeared before the Clermont, namely, (loth) Fitch's 



Invention of Steam Navigation 8^,7 

boat on the Ohio in 1798 before he died; (nth) .the boat 
built under the joint auspices of Nicholas Roosevelt, John 
Stevens and Chancellor Livingston in the same year; 
(i2th) Oliver Evans' boat on the Delaware in 1804; (13th) 
Stevens' boat on the Hudson in 1804; and (14th) Stevens' 
on the Hudson in 1806. 

This brief review, hasty as it is, and which has not taken 
mto consideration similar efforts in England, will give some 
idea of the intense competition between active minds at this 
time in the realm of steam navigation and prepare us the 
better to estimate Fulton's achievement in 1807. 

Robert Fulton — 1/6 j to iSoy. 
It is a mistake to imagine that Fulton's contribution to 
science was limited to his achievement on the Hudson river 
m 1807. His genius had a much wider scope, and while we 
are ostensibly commemorating the Clermont's trip, we are in 
fact honoring the memory of a man to the range of whose 
genius the ocean set no bounds. 

In a pamphlet entitled "Torpedo War, or, Submarine 
Explosions," addressed to President Madison in 1810, Ful- 
ton adopted as his motto, " The liberty of the seas will be 
the happiness of the earth." For that principle England 
had annihilated Spain's Invincible Armada in 1588. For 
that principle the United States fought the mother country 
a second time in 1812-1815. It was a sentiment worthy 
of a broad mind and a noble character and may be said to 
have been the Polaris of Fulton's aims and ambitions. 

Fulton was born of Irish parents in Little Britain (now 
Fulton Township), in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1765. As 
a boy he manifested a decided talent for drawing, and he 
was frequently employed by Lancaster manufacturers to 
make designs for guns. He was also expert at calculation, 
and was occasionally engaged by gunsmiths to calculate the 
force, size, bore and range of guns. These two talents for 
drawing and calculation, thus wedded in early life, were 
never afterward dissociated, and to their fortunate pos- 
session was doubtless due in large measure his subsequent 
successes as an inventor. 



838 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

In 1779, he began to show a great fondness for invention. 
After a fatiguing fishing trip with his friend Christopher 
Gumpf, one day, he went into retirement for a week; and 
then reappeared, to annoinice to Christopher that he was 
tired of pohng a fishing boat, and to exhibit the model of a 
boat fitted with paddle wheels worked by hand. 

At the age of seventeen he left Lancaster for Philadelphia 
to study landscape and portrait painting and mechanical 
drawing. By May 6, 1786, at the age of twenty-one he had 
acquired means to buy a home for his widowed mother in 
Washington county. 

Having thus made filial provision for his mother, and as 
he was suffering from pulmonary trouble, he was per- 
suaded to go to England for his health and to study art 
under his former neighbor Benjamin West. But the 
Genius of Invention which possessed him would not leave 
him alone to pursue art single minded, and in 1793 we find 
him engaged on a plan for the improvement of inland navi- 
gation, and writing to Lord Stanhope, under date of Sep- 
tember 30, 1793, concerning the principles of an invention 
which he said he had discovered respecting the moving of 
ships by steam. 

In May, 1794, he secured from the British government 
a patent for a double-inclined plane to be used for trans- 
portation purposes. In 1795 he sumbitted to Lord Stan- 
hope drawings of an apparatus for steam navigation ; and 
in 1796 he published in London a " Treatise on the Im- 
provement of Canal Navigation " by the use of inclined 
planes and the weight of water to raise vessels from one 
level to another. It would be interesting to know what 
Benjamin West thought of his pupil's proficiency in art at 
this period of his career. 

Of the fact that Fulton possessed a decided talent for art, 
notwithstanding his excursions into mechanics and inven- 
tions, we have excellent proof. His portrait hanging in the 
rooms of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 
New York City, and ascribed to his own brush, is a highly 
creditable product. In 1797, he went to Paris and painted 



Invention of Steam Navigation 839 

the first panorama that Paris ever had. Few visitors to 
Paris to-day who pass through the Rue des Panoramas and 
the Passage des Panoramas reahze that these names are 
rehcs of Fuhon's first efforts to support himself in the 
French capital while developing his plans to overcome 
England with steamboats and torpedos. 

In Paris, Fulton lived with the American Minister Joel 
Barlow, of whom he painted a fine portrait now owned by 
Fulton's descendant, Mr. Robert Fulton Ludlow of 
Claverack. He also designed the illustrations for Barlow's 
classic poem entitled " The Columbiad." 

But the truth of Saint Matthew's saying that " no man 
can serve two masters " soon became apparent in Fulton's 
case and Invention eventually won him from Art. 

During his first year in Paris he made experiments with 
torpedoes in the Seine. With a view to discovering a 
means of applying his torpedoes to the enemy's ships, his 
thoughts turned to submarine boats, and he proposed to 
" deliver France and the whole world from British oppres- 
sion." In the spring of 1801 he went to Brest to make ex- 
periments with a plunging boat which he had constructed 
the previous winter. On July 3, 1801, and on subsequent 
dates, he gave exhibitions of his boat called the Nautilus, in 
the harbor. Proceeding under sail a suitable distance from 
shore, accompanied by three companions, he struck the 
mast and sails, and plunged below the surface where, on 
one occasion, he remained four hours and twenty minutes. 
Under water, the boat was propelled by a machine worked 
by hand, and the respiration of the crew was maintained by 
a supply of compressed air in a copper globe. 

Interesting as this demonstration was, Fulton realized 
that to "deliver the world from British oppression" some- 
thing more than a hand-power submarine boat was needed. 

In 1801 Livingston arrived in Paris as Minister Pleni- 
potentiary. Livingston was conversant with everything 
that had been attempted and accomplished in America, and 
Fulton with everything of a similar nature in England. 
The coming together of these two men marks a turning 



840 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

point in history. Fulton had genius. Livingston had the 
genius to perceive it. With Livingston's assistance, Fuhon 
designed and submitted to Napoleon in 1803 the plans for 
a side-wheel steamboat. This was constructed; but un- 
fortunately, just as he was about to give an exhibition of 
its powers, it was sunk in the Seine by a heavy wind. A 
new boat was built, and with it, on August 9, 1803, Fulton 
achieved a complete and brilliant success. But the former 
accident had produced a fatal effect. The French com- 
mission reported unfavorably and Napoleon missed one of 
the greatest opportunities in his career. The late Lord 
Acton, when asked at Cambridge a short time before his 
death what he considered the most important event in the 
19th Century with respect to English history, replied that 
it was the sinking of Fulton's boat in the Seine, in 1803. 

Discouraged by lack of Government support in France, 
Fulton then returned to England and made demonstrations 
of his inventions. He devised various methods for sinking 
ships with torpedoes. One of his methods was to set afloat 
two clockwork torpedoes connected by a rope, so that they 
would drift down on either side of the bow of the enemy's 
ship, lodge and discharge. Another device for affixing the 
torpedo was by means of a harpoon shot from a gun. 
Still another device was an anchored trigger-torpedo, to be 
exploded by contact. 

On October 15, 1805, he blew up the condemned brig 
Dorothea in Walmar Roads, near Deal, as a demonstration 
of the efficiency of submarine explosions. That the 
English officials appreciated the value of Fulton's inven- 
tions appears from their offer of a considerable reward if 
he would consent to suppress them forever, so that neither 
his own nor any other country could use them. This he 
indignantly refused to do, saying, in a paper which he read 
in August, 1806, to certain gentlemen appointed by the 
British ministry to confer with him: "At all events, what- 
ever may be your award, I never will consent to let these 
inventions lie dormant should my country at any time need 
them. Were you to grant me an annuity of 20,000 pounds 



Invention of Steam Navigation 841 

a year, I would sacrifice all to the safety and independence 
of my country." 

He concludes a letter to Lord Grenville as follows : " It 
has never been my intention to hide these inventions from 
the world on any consideration. * -^ * I have ever con- 
sidered the interest of America, free commerce, the interest 
of mankind, the magnitude of the object in view, and the 
rational reputation connected with it, superior to all cal- 
culations of a pecuniary nature." 

Those noble sentiments entitle Fulton to a place in the 
foremost rank of American patriots, as his inventive genius 
placed him in the foremost ranks of American inventors. 

The Voyage of the Cleiiiwiif. 

Soon after expressing those sentiments and after having 
spent about fifteen years in England and France, Fulton re- 
turned to New York. The city of a century ago had a 
population of only about 80,000 souls. It ranked second to 
Philadelphia. Its closely settled portion was below the 
latitude of City Hall, with straggling buildings along the 
Bowery, Broadway and Greenwich street as far north as 
the latitude of Greenwich. Greenwich was closely settled 
and included the State's Prison from the neighborhood of 
which the Clermont started. 

On March 10, 1807, Fulton took lodging at Mrs. Lor- 
ing's fashionable boarding-house at No. 13 Broadway. In 
1809 and 1810 he lived at No. 100 Reade street; in 181 1 at 
133 Chambers street; and from 1812 to the time of his 
death in what is now called Battery place, in 'the rear of 
No. I Broadway. There was a vacant lot between his house 
and No. i Broadway. 

Before returning to New York Fulton had ordered from 
Watt and Bolton in England the engine for a new steam- 
boat which, upon his arrival, he began to build at Charles 
Brown's shipyard near Corlear's Hook and which he called 
the Clermont. In the Hudson-Fulton Celebration there 
will be an accurate reproduction of that historic vessel, the 
result of the most critical, painstaking and thorough in- 



Invention of Steam Navigation 843 

vestigation that was ever applied to such a problem. The 
task of ascertaining the appearance of the Clermont a cen- 
tury after she was built was not an easy one, for the 
reason that while drawings of her engine were in existence, 
there was no contemporary picture of her hull. But 
from Fulton's statement concerning his first boat in 
the specifications upon which he obtained his second 
patent of October 2, 1810,* and from other sources the fol- 
lowing facts are now perfectly established : The original 
Clermont was 150 feet long and 13 feet wide, with 7 feet 
depth of hold. She drew 2 feet of water. Her hull (below 
the deck) had wedge-shaped bow and stern, cut sharp to 
the angle of sixty degrees. In horizontal plan her sides 
were parallel and she was almost wall-sided, being a very 
little wider on deck than on the bottom. Her bottom was 
flat with no keel, and she had two steering-boards or lee- 
boards to prevent drifting sideways. She had two masts, 
but no bowsprit or figurehead. She had two cabins, one 
forward and one aft. The tiller by which she was steered 
was at the back end of the after cabin so that it was diffi- 
cult for the helmsman to see what lay ahead. The engine, 
which was made in England, was amidship between the two 
cabins and was uncovered. The boiler was of copper. The 
paddlewheels, 15 feet in diameter, were uncovered, which 
resulted in drenching the passengers, and no guards pro- 
tected the wheels from collision. Later, the paddlewheels 
were covered. To turn around, one paddlewheel was dis- 
connected. The flywheels of the engine were outside of the 
hull forward of the paddlewheels, and revolved the same 
way. On one occasion, when one of the paddlewheels was 
disabled, it is said, paddles were attached to the flywheel 
and the voyage continued. In the winter of 1807-1808 the 
Clermont was widened to 16 feet on the bottom and 18 feet 



* Contained in " A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam 
Navigation" by Prof. Bennet Woodcroft of London (1848) who 
was a distinguished authority on patents. 



844 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

on deck to give her greater stability and she was otherwise 
improved. 

A few days before August 17 of that year, this strange 
looking craft was taken around from the East River to the 
North River and moored near the old State's Prison, which 
stood on the square now bounded by Washington, West 
Tenth, West and Charles streets. 

At length, on IMonday, August 17, the American Citizen 
contained this momentous announcement : 

" J\Ir. Fulton's ingenious Steam Boat, invented with a 
View to the Navigation of The Mississippi from New Or- 
leans upwards. Sails to-day from the North River, near 
The State Prison, to Albany, The Velosity of The Steam 
Boat is Calculated at 4 miles an hour ; it is said that it will 
make a progress of two against The Current of The Mis- 
sissippi ; and if so it will certainly be a very valuable acqui- 
sition to the Commerce of the Western States." 

That morning, the shore of the river was crowded with 
thousands of citizens, many of whom had come to deride 
what was called " Fulton's Folly." Jeers and cat-calls 
saluted Fulton's ears, and the waggishly inclined signifi- 
cantly tapped their foreheads. "God help you, Bobby!" 
cried one. "A fool and his money are soon parted " cried 
another. " Bring us back a chip of the North Pole " face- 
tiously shouted another. 

Fulton, pale, but with an air of confidence, went about 
his preparations to start. Presently, dense volumes of 
smoke began to pour forth from the smoke-stack. The 
boiler began to hiss. At i o'clock the hawser was drawn 
in, the throttle opened, and to the accompaniment of the 
stertorous exhaust, the uncovered side-wheels began to 
quiver, then slowly to revolve. A hush fell on the specta- 
tors. Fulton's own hand at the helm turned the bow. The 
Clermont moved out into the stream, the steam connections 
hissing at the joints, the crude machinery thumping and 
groaning, the wheels splashing and the smoke-stack belch- 
ing like a volcano. The boat continued to gather mo- 
mentum and move awav. Then the nervous tension of the 



Invention of Steam Navigation 845 

situation was broken. All on board swung their hats in 
the air and gave a cheer, and like an echo, magnified a 
thousand times, came back a roar of applause from the 
shore. Skeptics had been converted. Those who came to 
scoff remained to cheer. The Clermont w^as a success, and 
steam navigation in America was established beyond per- 
adventure. 

As the steamboat proceeded up the river, it spread con- 
sternation among superstitious mariners and unsophisticated 
countrymen. No such sight had ever been seen before. 
The pine wood used for fuel produced a torrent of black 
smoke, flame and sparks, which belched forth to a great 
height above the smoke-stack. The reverberation of the ex- 
haust as the boat passed the Palisades was something abso- 
lutely unheard before by human ears in this region. Crews 
of other vessels were terrified. Many at first sight fell on 
their knees, disappeared below decks or made for land. One 
honest countryman, after beholding the unaccountable ob- 
ject from the shore, ran home and told his wife that he 
had seen " the Devil on his way to Albany in a saw mill." 
Not since Hudson's Half Moon had sailed over the same 
course nearly 200 years before, exciting the wonder and 
awe of the aborigines, had such an amazing sight been seen 
by the neighboring inhabitants. 

When the Clermont reached Haverstraw Bay, says one 
of the passengers, a man in a skiff lay waiting for it. He 
appeared to be a miller, and the paddle-wheels attracted his 
attention. He asked permission to go aboard and Fulton 
ordered a line to be thrown to him. The miller said he 
" did not know about a mill going up-stream and came to 
inquire about it." One of the passengers seeing through 
the simple-minded visitor, but without disabusing him of 
his mistake, showed him all the machinery and contrivances 
and the device for throwing the wheels out of gear when 
the mill was required to come about. Presently the visitor 
said, " That will do. Now show me the millstones." " Oh," 
said the passenger, " that is a secret which the master has 
never told us yet; but when we come back from Albany 



846 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

with a load of corn, then if yo:i come aboard, you will see 
the meal fly." 

At I o'clock on Tuesday, the boat arrived at the place 
after which Fulton, in honor of his distinguished colleague, 
had named the steamboat. Clermont dock, the landing 
place at Chancellor Livingston's place, is no miles from 
New York, and that distance had been traversed against 
the wind in just 24 hours. The average speed thus far 
had been about 4.6 miles an hour. Here Fulton rested 
from I o'clock Tuesday until 9 a. m. Wednesday. His 
feelings of elation can readily be imagined. His voyage 
thus far had been one of triumphant success. This was 
the first time the waters of the Hudson had been 
churned by steam power from the briny depths of New 
York harbor to the fresh-water reaches of the upper river. 
It was the first all-night steamboat trip ever made. 

Resuming their journey the next day, Wednesday, at 
9 a. m., the Clermont reached Albany, distant 40 miles, at 
5 p. m. The running time for the whole 150 miles had 
been 32 hours, or at the rate of nearly 5 miles an hour. 
The return trip on Thursday and Friday was made in 30 
hours running time, or an average of just 5 miles an hour. 
The wind had been against the Clermont both ways, says 
Fulton, so that no advantage could be derived from his 
sails. The whole journey, therefore, had been performed 
by the power of the steam engine. 

On Saturday, August 22, the American Citizen bestowed 
upon this extraordinary achievement the following thirty- 
seven words of comment : 

" We congratulate Mr. Fulton and the Country on his 
success in the steam boat, which cannot fail of being very 
advantageous. We understand that not the smallest incon- 
venience is felt in the boat either from heat or smoke." 

Fulton's Subsequent Career 
Fulton's victory was won by a narrow margin, for com- 
petition was following close upon his heels, and could John 
Stevens of Hoboken and his son, Robert L. Stevens, have 



Invention of Steam Navigation 847 

obtained engines in time, they might have anticipated the 
Clermont. As it was, Stevens' Phoenix sailed upon the 
Hudson only a few days later than the Clermont, in 1807, 
but as a result of the monopoly which Livingston and 
Fulton secured from the Legislature in 1808, Stevens was 
crowded out, and in June 1809 he took the Phoenix around 
Cape Alay to the Delaware upon which she plied many 
years between Philadelphia and Trenton. She is claimed 
to have been the first ocean-going steamboat. 

Contemporaneously with the building of the Clermont 
and of other steamboats after Fulton's models, the inventor 
continued to direct his faculties toward the advancement 
of the science of naval warfare. While the finishing prep- 
arations were being made for the Clermont's maiden 
voyage, namely, on July 20, 1807, Fulton, in pursuance of 
experiments which the United States Government had au- 
thorized him to make, blew up the hulk of a large brig in 
New York harbor with a torpedo. In January, 1810, Ful- 
ton appeared before President Madison, ex-President Jeffer- 
son, and a number of members of Congress, and explained 
to them his plans and models for torpedoes, and a little 
later issued an illustrated pamphlet entitled " Torpedo War- 
fare, or Submarine Explosions." 

Livingston, after viewing Fulton's submarine experi- 
ments, said: ' Upon the whole, I view this application of 
powder as one of the most important millitary discoveries 
which some centuries have produced." 

There is no doubt but that the Royal Navy ofificers who 
witnessed Fulton's demonstrations in 1805 had a wholesome 
respect for his devices, and exercised a corresponding dis- 
cretion in approaching our waters during our second war 
with Great Britain. 

In 1808, Fulton built the Car of Neptune, and in 181 1 
the Paragon, the third of the Fulton-Livingston line of 
Hudson river boats. The Paragon was a great improve- 
ment on her predecessors. She was 173 feet long with 27 
feet breadth of beam. She had a copper boiler 21 feet in 
length, fitted with numerous pipes to facilitate the genera- 



848 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

tion of steam, something after the modern tubular system, 
but owing to some injury to the pipes from fire on the first 
experiment they were abandoned. The Paragon ran many 
years between Xew York and Albany; but about 1820 she 
ran upon a rock and was abandoned. The round trip from 
New York to Albany and return on the Paragon as on the 
Clermont cost $14. To-day the same trip can be made for 

$3-50. 

In 1812, Fulton started his first ferry-boat. The enter- 
prisinp' Stevens had started a ferry to Hoboken in October 
the year before, but eventually had to give way to Fulton. 
Of Fulton's boat which ran from Cortlandt street to Jersey 
City, Fulton said : " It crosses the river, which is a mile 
and a half broad, when it is calm, in 15 minutes; the aver- 
age time is 20 minutes. She has had in her at one time 
8 four-wheeler carriages, 29 horses and 100 passengers, and 
could have taken 300 persons more." 

This boat was built on the catamaran principle, consisting 
of two boats, each of 10 feet beam and 80 feet long, sepa- 
rated from each other by an interval of 10 feet, and covered 
with a deck 30 feet wide and 80 long. The paddle-wheel 
was in the space between the boats, protected from ice and 
collision. She was symmetrical at both ends, and, having 
a balanced rudder at each, was not obliged to put about on 
the return trip. Thus we see that our simple end-wise 
system of receiving and discharging ferry passengers, which 
excited the admiration of some English visitors not long 
ago, dates from the very beginning of steam ferriage. 
Fulton also devised the ferry bridge almost precisely as used 
in its elements to-day. It was attached to the wharf by a 
horizontal hinge, the outer end resting on a float which rose 
and fell with the tide. He provided, in addition, an in- 
i^enious bumper with hydraulic counter-weights to receive 
the impact of the arriving boat, which in later years proved 
to be unnecessary. 

Fulton's estimate of the expense of running a steam 
ferry-boat for one year is very moderate compared with 
the expense of a modern ferry : 



Invention of Steam Navigation 849 

2 firemen at 30 dollars a month each, they finding them- 
selves. They will also act as engineers to keep the engine 
in order. They must be engaged for the year, as such men 
cannot be turned away in the winter and got in the spring — 

60 dollars a month $720 a year 

Two boatmen to take turns at steering at 

25 dollars a month each, 50 dollars a 

month 600 

lYi cords of wood for 12 or 13 hours at 

4^ dollars a day, to work 320 days. . . 2,240 
Ware, tare and repairs 600 

Total $4,160 

Robert Fulton 
Jany. 22, 1810. 

The outbreak of the war of 1812 with Great Britain 
naturally turned Fulton's thoughts again to his purpose to 
rid the seas of British oppression. John Bull well knew 
Fulton's ingenuity and constructive ability, and we may 
be sure that he kept a particular eye on Fulton's activities. 
It is possible that the immunity of New York City during 
the war was partly due to the wholesome fear that some 
of Fulton's submarine contrivances might be hidden under 
the w^aters of New York harbor. In March, 1814, Con- 
gress authorized the construction of the first steam vessel 
of war according to plans submitted to Fulton, and this 
vessel, called the Demologos, or Fulton the First, was 
launched, but not completed, October 29, 1814. She was 
built, like his ferry-boat, on the catamaran principle, and 
consisted of two hulls, 66 feet long, separated by a channel 
15 feet wide. The paddle-wheel was within this central 
channel. She had a parapet 4 feet 10 inches thick; port- 
holes for 30 32-pounder guns; two bowsprits and jibs; two 
masts ; and four rudders, one at each end of each hull. 

The launching of this vessel was a great event in New 
York, Multitudes crowded the shores, and the river and 
bay were filled with vessels of war dressed in all their 
colors. In their midst was the enormous floating mass, 
saluted by land batteries, bands of music and the cheers of 



850 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

the people. The enemy had endeavored to prevent the 
building of the frigate by blockading the port and cutting 
off necessary supplies, but he only succeeded in increasing 
the expense. The vessel was completed ; equipped with 
guns opportunely captured from the British and transported 
over miry roads from Philadelphia to New York ; and on 
July 4, 1 81 5, she made a trip to sea and back, a distance 
of 53 miles, in 8 hours and 20 minutes. But on February 
17th, the treaty of peace with Great Britain was ratified at 
Washington and the war was over. 

Aleanwhile, England had evidently sustained a great 
fright, if we may judge from the English newspaper ac- 
counts of the Demologos, which declared her to be 300 feet 
long and 200 feet wide, with sides 13 feet thick, carrying 
44 guns, and able to discharge 100 gallons of boiling water 
a minute. Furthermore, she could brandish 300 cutlasses 
with the utmost regularity over the gunwale, and dart 300 
heavy iron pikes of great length from her sides with great 
force and withdraw them every quarter of a minute! 

Fulton, while present at the launching of the Demologos, 
did not live to see her completed, but died Thursday, Feb- 
ruary 23, 181 5, at his home which stood in what is now 
Battery Place, in the rear of No. i Broadway.* In Jan- 
uary, he had caught a severe cold while at Trenton attend- 
ing a hearing before the New Jersey Legislature involving 
the right of John R. Livingston ;to run a ferry-boat between 
New York and New Jersey. Returning from Trenton, he 
found the river full of ice, and he was detained on the 
water several hours on a very severe day. Notwithstand- 
ing the cold he had caught, he was so intensely interested 
in the completion of the frigate that he disregarded the 
proper precautions for his health. He spent many hours in 
inclement weather on the decks of the Demologos, super- 
vising the work, and at last succumbed, the victim of his 
devotion to his great work. 



* The date and place of Fulton's death above given though 
differing from those given by his biographers Colden and Reigant 
are authentic, being based upon obituary notices in contemporary 
newspapers and upon the city directory of that year. 



Invention of Steam Navigation 851 

On the day following, while minute guns boomed from 
the frigate and the West Battery (now the Aquarium.) 
his body was escorted to Trinity Church by all the officers 
of the national and state governments then in the city, by 
the city magistrates and common council, by several socie- 
ties, and by a greater number of citizens than had been 
collected on any similar occasion before. It now rests in 
the Livingston vault on the south side of Trinity Church, 
about four rods northwest of the modest monument and 
tablet erected to his memory by the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers in 1901. 

I 
All Estimate of Fulton's Genius 

If we could assemble in New York harbor a fleet embrac- 
ing all the steam vessels constructed by Fulton or according 
to his plans, we shoidd have an impressive exhibit of his 
productive powers. First we would see the little diving 
Nautilus (1801) whose name significantly recalls that of 
Jules Verne's creation in " 20 Thousand Leagues Under the 
Sea." Then would come the little boat on the Seine (1803), 
and then the Clermont (1807), Car of Neptune (1808), 
Rariton (1809), New Orleans (1811), Paragon (1812), 
Firefly (1812), Jersey Ferryboat (1812), Camden (1812), 
Washington (1813), York Ferryboat (1813), Richmond 
(1814), Nassau Ferryboat (1814), Fulton (1814), Vesu- 
vius (1814), Demologos (1814), Aetna (181 5), Buffalo 
(1815), Mute (1815), Olive Branch (1816), Empress of 
Russia (1816), and Chancellor Livingston (1816). 

But even this exhibit would represent only a part of 
Fulton's genius, which expressed itself in his valuable 
pioneer w'ork with submarine boats, torpedoes, inland canals, 
and in other directions for the promotion of the peace and 
prosperity of mankind. 

Recalling again the thought formerly expressed concern- 
ing the hundreds of centuries of slow advancement in the 
science of navigation W'ith sailing craft, w^e cannot fail to 
be deeply impressed with the immense progress made with 
steam navigation since it was established on a commercial 



852 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

basis by Fulton 102 years ago. The little Clermont of 
1807, which could carry 100 persons to Albany in 30 hours 
at $7 a head, has developed into the modern floating palace 
which can carry 5.000 in 9J/2 hours, at the rate of $1.75 
each. 

The Paulus Hook ferry-boat of 1812, which could cross 
the North River in 20 minutes has grown into the superb 
twin-screw municipal ferry-boat, costing $376,000 to build, 
which can go from South Ferry to Staten Island, a distance 
of five miles, in the same time. It costs $192,908 a year 
on the average to run one of the modern Staten Island 
ferrv-boats against Fulton's estimate of $4,160. The salar- 
ies and wages of crews and terminal hands amounted in 
1906 to $93,231 per boat against $1,300 a year estimated by 
Fulton; and the fuel cost $45,156 per boat, against Fulton's 
estimate of $2,240. Two firemen (who also acted as en- 
gineers) and two boatmen (who also acted as pilots) com- 
prised Fulton's running force. Each Staten Island boat has 
three crews of 21 members each, who serve eight hours 
each. A municipal ferry-boat can carry 2,500 passengers 
against Fulton's 400. Although the ferry system across the 
North and East River is now falling into disuse, in conse- 
ciuence of the building of bridges and tunnels, it has been 
of enormous influence in the development of the city. An 
idea of the extent of the ferry traffic of the city at the 
end of the first century after Fulton's achievement of 1807 
may be gathered from the fact that in 1907, all the ferries 
of New York city carried 216,932,549 passengers, of whom 
126,294,239 crossed the North River, 12,716,300 were car- 
ried by the Municipal Ferries in the harbor, and the balance 
were carried by all other ferries. 

Passing around into the East River to the U. S. Navy 
Yard, opposite the place where Fulton's armed frigate was 
launched, we find more material for thoughtful comparison. 
In the Wallabout Bay, ever memorable for the suft'erings of 
the prison ship martyrs which Fulton so graphically illus- 
trated in the Columbiad, lie the powerful successors of the 
Demologos. In the midst of this ponderous mass of peac<^- 



Invention of Steam Navigation 853 

conserving machines, we may find the submarine off-spring 
of his phinging Nautihis. And in these craft, we can see 
the highest development of his torpedoes. 

But greater than all, in the opening years of the second 
century of steam navigation, come the Lusitania and the 
Mauretania as if to demonstrate the perfection to which 
the science of Fulton has been carried in one hundred years. 
How impressive is the contrast between the beginnings of 
the two centuries and how diminutive the facsimile of the 
Clermont, 150 feet long, will look this year beside the 790- 
foot Cunarders which have just crossed the ocean in less 
than five days.* 

Looking back over this marvelous conquest of the sea 
during the past 102 years, we need suffer no compunctions 
of conscience in freely rendering our tribute to the memory 
of Fulton as the father of American steamboating. It is 
true that he did not build the first crude boat propelled by 
steam, and he was indebted to others for many ideas which 
he put into successful practice. But we should remember 
that in the. history of invention, as in the history of human 
events generally, no single event stands forth alone and 
unconnected with either preceding or succeeding events. 
All history is a continuous and logical sequence of cause 
and effect, and each event is at the same time the fruit of 
past labors and the seed of harvests to come. Galileo, 
popularly regarded as the inventor of the telescope, was in- 
debted to the prior discoveries of a Dutchman. Huygens, the 
inventor of the pendulum clock, was the debtor of Galileo 
who noted the swinging lamp. And in like manner we may 
recall the obligations of Stevenson, the father of the loco- 
motive, to Wa-tt ; Daguerrc, the father of photography, to 
Niepce; Morse, the father of the telegraph, to Joseph 
Henry (and to Galvani if we wish to trace it back so far) ; 
Bell, the father of the telephone, to several persons ; and 
Marconi, the wizard of wireless telegraphy, to Heinrich 



* On March 2, 1909, the Mauretania reached Daunt's Rock, 
Queenstown, from New York, having traversed 2,934 miles in 4 
days, 20 hours and 2 minutes. This is the fastest trip on record. 



854 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton 

Herz. In invention, as in other affairs, we feel a natural de- 
sire to give a personification to great movements. Washing- 
ton, Wellington and William of Orange are national heroes, 
not because their achievements were unaided, but partly 
because they personify the movements in which they were 
leading factors. And so it is with our heroes of invention. 
Fulton was indebted to Franklin, Fitch, Stevens and Living- 
ston, both for the lessons of their successes and the lessons 
of their failures ; but the indisputable fact remains that he 
improved upon their experiments and by his genius and 
personal character was able to devise the means and com- 
mand the influence and resources which established steam 
navigation upon a successful commercial basis. Fulton 
personifies the great historical movement of steam naviga- 
tion, and we are justified in yielding with unreserved grati- 
tude the title of " The Father of American Steamboating " 
to him whose motto was : " The Liberty of the Seas Will 
be the Happiness of the Earth." 



S55 
PART III. 

GENERAL PLAN OF CELEBRATION 



The plans for the celebration of the events described in the 
preceding pages have been formulated with a view to the inter- 
national, national, interstate, State and local significance of the 
events to be commemorated. 

The people of Holland, under royal auspices, are building a 
reproduction of the " Half Moon," to be presented to the Com- 
mission manned with a crew in the costumes of the period of 
Henry Hudson. The reception of this distinguished delegation, 
together, as it is hoped, with ships and official representatives of 
foreign nations, will mark the international phase of the celebration. 

The national government will be represented by the Federal 
troops, the United States navy, and distinguished civil officers. 

An interstate participation cannot be avoided when two common- 
wealths, like New York and New Jersey, have so much in common 
in their geographical, historical, social and commercial relations; 
and the appointment by Gov. Hughes of iifteen distinguished 
citizens of New Jersey upon the Commission, as well as the in- 
quiries from New Jersey boards of trade and other sources indi- 
cate that such participation is in contemplation. 

The State-ivide observance of the events has been provided for 
in the preparations for commemorative exercises in all the univer- 
sities, colleges, schools and learned societies, throughout the State. 

/;; the Hudson River Valley, every county seat from Newburgh 
northward is preparing actively for one day of local celebration. 

In Neiv York city and the Hudson valley south of Newburgh 
the features of the celebration already in contemplation promise 
to make it unique in character and of lasting educational value. 

The program of the celebration as at present outlined, but sub- 
ject to modification in details, is as follows: 

Religions Service Days. 

(Saturday, September 25, and Sunday, September 26, 1909.) 

The Commission is of the opinion that in arranging for the 
celebration the people should not overlook the Divine guidance 
in the two great events to be commemorated, one of which opened 
up our State to modern civilization and led to the founding of the 
City of New York, and the other of which laid the foundation 
for the vast commerce upon which the prosperity of the City and 
State so largely depends. It has therefore set apart the first two 
days for religious observances by those who are accustomed to 
worship on Saturday and Sunday. 



856 Hudson Fulton Celebration Commission 

Reception Day. 
(Monday, September 27th.) 

The secular observances will begin on Monda}-, September 27th, 
with the following features : 

General decoration of public and private dwellings from New 
York to the head of ' the river. 

Rendezvous of American and fcfreign vessels at New York. 

Fac-simile of Hudson's " Half Moon " to enter the river, be 
formally received and take her place in line. 

Fac-simile of Fulton's " Clermont " to start from original site 
with appropriate exercises and take position in line. 

Visiting guests to disembark and be officially received. 

Opening of exhibits of paintings, prints, books, models, relics, 
etc., by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum 
of Natural History, the Hispanic Museum, the American Numis- 
matic Society, the New York Public Library, the Ne\\r York 
Historical Society, the New York Genealogical and Biographical 
Society, the American Geographical Society. Webb's School for 
Shipbuilders, the New York Yacht Club, and similar institutions 
throughout the State. The exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art and the American Museum of Natural History promise to 
be the most remarkable of the kind ever held in this country 
and will probably extend over a period of several months. 

Music festivals in the evening in each of the five boroughs of 
the city. 

On some day or days of this week, tlicrc will be a remarkable 
exhibition of flying machines. The New York World, has offered 
a prize of $ro,ooo for the aeronaut who, with a mechanically pro- 
pelled airship, sails over the course from New York to Albany 
traversed by Fulton's first steamboat in 1807. This competition 
will be conducted by the Aero Club of America, and has been ap- 
proved by the Commission as a part of the official celebration. 

During the week it is planned to have, upon a great float in 
the -Hudson ri\er opposite Riverside Park, New York, an Indian 
village, in and around which scenes in the early history of New 
York will be enacted. 

Historical Day. 

(Tuesday, September 28th.) 

On Tuesday, September 28th, there will be an Historical Parade 
in the City of New York. The procession will be composed of 
floats and moving tableaux representing the principal events in 
the history of the City and State. This parade may be repeated 
in Brooklyn on Friday, October i. 



General Plan of Celebration 857 

In the evening, the Official Literary Exercises will be held in 
the Metropolitan Opera House, the Great Hall of the City College, 
Carnegie Hall, and the Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy 
of Music, at which orations will be delivered by men of national 
reputation. 

General Coiiiiiieiitoratioii Day. 

(Wednesday, September 29th.) 

Soon after the Commission was formed, a World's Fair at or 
near New York City was suggested. After giving several public 
hearings the subject was referred to the Plan and Scope Com- 
mittee, who, in their preliminary report, expressed the belief that 
the country had been surfeited with such temporary celebrations 
and voiced the hope that the celebration of 1909 would be con- 
ducted on a plan which would leave monumental works of lasting 
benefit to the people. The ideas thus expressed have received un- 
equivocal expressions of approval from the leading newspapers 
of this and other States and have been accepted as the policy of 
the Commission. 

It is proposed therefore that Wednesday, September 29th, be 
devoted to the dedication of parks and memorials along the 
Hudson River, and to General Commemorative Exercises through- 
out the State. It is recommended not only that between now and 
then, the most earnest efforts be made to secure great memorials 
like Inwood Hill Park, but also that the civic pride of various 
communities along the river be invoked to participate in like 
manner by establishing parks, institutions or other public memo- 
rials. The interest of the numerous historical and patriotic so- 
cieties is invited in the erection of monuments and tablets, so 
that the history of the Hudson Valley maj^ be written in stone and 
bronze from the site of old Fort Amsterdam to the site of old 
Fort Orange. The Commission has advices which indicate that 
monuments to William the Silent and Henry Hudson, a tablet to 
the Founders and Patriots of New York and a tablet on Fort 
Tryon will be ready for dedication. 

Wednesday is essentially an educational day, designed to be 
participated in by the universities, colleges, schools, museums and 
learned and patriotic societies throughout the zvhole State. While 
the commemoration of 1909 must, from geographical considerations, 
largely center around the Hudson River, the glory and the material 
benefits of Hudson's and Fulton's achievements are the heritage 
of the people of the entire State, and the programme for Wednes- 
day affords a practical means for a general observance of the 
occasion from one end of the State to the other. Features of 
this day's observances will be as follows : Commemorative exer- 
cises in Columbia University. New York University, College of 



858 Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 

City of New York, Cooper Union, University of St. John at Ford- 
ham, Hebrew University, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
Public Schools, Historical Societies, and all the universities, col- 
leges and institutions of learning throughout the State of New 
York; with free lectures for the people in New York City under 
the auspices of the Board of Education. 

The programme for this day also includes aquatic sports on the 
Hudson River, designed in the first instance for friendly competi- 
tion between the crews of the naval vessels, but which may em- 
brace motor boat races and such other amusements as may seem 
practicable and desirable. The races on this day will be opposite 
Riverside Park, New York, and opposite Yonkers. (See also 
Saturday, October 2.) 

Other features of Wednesday's programme will be : 

A reception to visiting guests at West Point during the day; 

and 

An Official Banquet in honor of distinguished guests in the City 

of New York in the evening. 

Military Parade Day. 
(Thursday, September 30th.) 

On Thursday will occur the military parade, participated in by 
the United States Army, the United States Navy and Marine 
Corps, the National Guard and the Naval Militia. 

Owing to the probable length of this parade, which may con- 
tain as many as 25,000 troops, the great fatigue which would be 
caused to the distinguished reviewing party if required to witness 
a longer procession, and the difficulties in the way of moving with 
precision and promptness a larger body if composed of undrilled 
civilians, it has been deemed advisable to eliminate civic features 
from this parade. 

An evening reception to the official guests at the headquarters 
of the Department of the East on Governor's Island is suggested 
as the closing event of t!ie day if it proves agreeable to the 
authorities. 

Hudson River Day. 

(Friday, October ist.) 

Friday, October ist is devoted to the Naval Parade and inci- 
dental ceremonies. It appears to be practicable for some of our 
naval vessels to proceed as far north as Newburgh Bay. It is 
planned to have as many vessels of the navy, merchant marine, 
excursion boats, and pleasure craft as possible go from New York 



General Plan of Celebration 859 

to Ncwbnrgli, taking with them the fac-similes of the " Half 
Moon " and " Clermont." 

In order that the inhabitants of the country on either side of 
the river may see the parade and the reproductions of the historic 
vessels, we recommend that the day be devoted by them to fetes 
champetres along the river-sides from New York to Newburgh. 

As the procession passes up the river, salutes may be fired from 
eligible points. 

The Memorial Arch erected by the Daughters of the Revolution 
at Stony Point Battlefield will probably be dedicated on this day. 

Simultaneously with the advance of the South Hudson Division, 
it is proposed to have a counter-procession from Albany to New- 
burgh, the two divisions meeting and holding appropriate cere- 
monies at Newburgh. Here the " Half Moon '' and '' Clermont '' 
will join the North Hudson Division. 



Carnival Day. 
(Saturday, October 2d.) 

Saturday, October 2d, is designed for a general Carnival Day 
in New York city. 

The New York division of the Naval Parade will return to its 
starting point. 

In Newburgh bay there will be aquatic sports. 

In all the cities this will be peculiarly the Children's Day, de- 
voted to fetes in public and private parks and play-grounds. 

The celebration will culminate in New York City in the evening 
with a Carnival Parade. This feature, with its moving allegorical 
tableaux participated in by all nationalities represented in the 
City will, it is believed, exceed in beauty and interest the most 
famous carnivals of Europe. The Carnival Parade will probably be 
repeated in Brooklyn on some night in the following week. 

Brilliancy will be added to the general spectacle by the illumina- 
tion of the fleet and public and private buildings and a pyrotechnic 
display. Displays of fireworks at various points, notably on the 
great bridges as in the fetes of the 14th of July in Paris, are in 
contemplation. 

At 9 p. M. it is designed to have a chain of signal fires from 
mountain tops and other eligible points along the whole river, 
lighted simultaneously. An arrangement has been made with the 
Pain Manufacturing Company as official illuminators, by which 
local communities can contract for these fires at reasonable and 
uniform rates. 



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Upper Hudson Week. 

(Beginning Sunday, October 3d.) 

It is planned to devote the week beginning Sunday, October 3d, 
to celebrations in the communities along the Upper Hudson. This 
will be somewhat in the nature of an Old Home Week. The 
events previously outlined will draw many residents of the State 
to the City of New York and will prevent as full a participation 
in local celebrations as might otherwise be possible ; whereas, in 
the week following not only will the citizens of the communities 
outside of the Metropolis be at home, but former residents of 
those communities will also be freer to make pilgrimages to their 
old homes, renew old ties and participate in local exercises. Be- 
ginning Sunday, October 3d, such portion of the Lower Hudson 
fleet as can continue the voyage to Troy, together with the North 
Hudson Fleet and the " Half Moon " and " Clermont," will be 
subject to the arrangements of the Upper Hudson Committee of 
the Commission. 

Dutchess County Day. 

(Monday, October 4th.) 

On Monday the naval parade will be at Poughkeepsie, the county 
seat of Dutchess county, and remain there during the Poughkeepsie 
Ceremonies. The erection of a statue of Robert Fulton has been 
suggested as a feature of the Poughkeepsie celebration. 

Ulster County Day. 

(Tuesday, October 5th.) 

On Tuesday, the naval parade will proceed to Kingston, the 
county seat of Ulster county, while similar exercises take place 
there. A statue of Governor Clinton has been proposed as the 
permanent memorial here. 

Greene County Day. 

(Wednesday, October 6th.) 

On Wednesday, October 6, the naval parade will go to Catskill, 
the county seat of Greene county. It is proposed that the cere- 
monies here include the dedication of a statue of Rip Van Winkle. 

Columbia Couuty Day. 

(Thursday, October 7th.) 

On Thursday, October 7th, the fleet will continue on to Hudson, 
which is the county seat of Columbia county and is named after 
the great explorer. A statue of Henry Hudson is the appropriate 
memorial proposed at this point. 



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Albany Cowily Day. 

(Friday, October 8th.) 

On Friday, llie 8tli, the flotilla will advance to the Capital of 
the commonwealth, the county seat of Albany county and the 
oldest city in the State. A statue of Peter Schuyler, the first 
mayor of Albany, has been suggested as the permanent memorial 
here. 

Rensselaer County Day. 

(Saturday, October gth.) 

In like manner the naval parade will advance to Troy, the 
county seat of Rensselaer county on Saturday, October gth, and 
form the nucleus of the celebration there. A statue of Van 
Rensselaer, who obtained the first land grant in that section, has 
been suggested as an appropriate monument to be erected here. 



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PART IV. 

SUGGESTIONS FOR GENERAL COMMEMORA- 
TIVE EXERCISES AND CHILDREN'S 
FESTIVALS. 



Municipal Authorities and Citizens Generally. 

Municipal authorities are requested to cause iiags to be dis- 
played on all public buildings during the secular week beginning 
on Monday, September 27. 

Citizens generally arc requested to display flags from their 
houses and office buildings and merchants to decorate their store 
windows with the national colors and the colors of the celebration. 
The latter are orange, white and blue, the colors of Holland under 
which Henry ITudson sailed in 1609. 



Learned and Patriotic Societies. 

On Wednesday, September 29 — or on any other day of that 
week if more convenient — it is recommended that patriotic, his- 
torical and other learned societies hold literary exercises bearing 
on the events commemorated or on the consequences of those 
events. The leading speakers of the community should l)c invited 
to participate. 

Exhibitions of books, prints, maps, paintings and relics will be 
very interesting. Comparative pictures showing the appearance of 
the locality in 1609 or in 1S07 and in 1909 will be instructive. 

Historical societies will naturally consider the historical aspects 
of the events. 

Scientific societies may consider the flora and fauna of Hudson's 
time; Hudson's and Fulton's contributions to the science of navi- 
gation, etc. 

The preservation of local landmarks and the marking of historic 
sites is recommended. 



Educational Institutions. 

All universities, colleges, normal schools, high schools, public 
schools and private schools are requested to observe Wednesday, 
September 29, as General Connnemoration Dav. Programmes 



Suggestions for General Commemorations 863 

should be arranged comprising two or more of the following general 
features : 

r. Patriotic songs. 

2. Debates. 

3. Essays. 

4. Tableaux. 

5. Exhibitions. 

Songs. 

The following songs are recommended : "America,"' " Star 
Spangled Banner," " Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," " Keller's 
American Hymn," " Hail Columbia." 

Any good sailor's songs, and songs of England and Holland 
would also be appropriate. 

Songs of other nations, with the display of corresponding flags, 
would typify the State's welcome to the people of all foreign 
countries. 

Debates. 

Debating societies will find material for public debates in both 
Hudson's and Fulton's achievements. The following subjects may 
suggest others : 

"Was Henry Hudson justified or not in sailing to America in 
160Q under his contract with the Dutch East India Company?" 

" Were the Dutch or the English best entitled to the territory 
called New Netherland?" 

" Did the presence of Indians in this State on the whole promote 
or hinder the coming of civilization?" 

" If the British had controlled the Hudson river in the War of 
the Revolution, could the Colonies have won their independence?" 

" Which has conferred the greater benfits on mankind, the 
steamboat or the steam locomotive?" 

" Which has had the greater influence of the prosperity of the 
State, the Hudson river or the Erie canal?" 

" Which did the most for the advancement of civilization, Henry 
Hudson or Robert Fulton?" 

Essays and Compositions. 

The discovery of the Hudson river and the invention of steam 
navigation offer a wide range of subjects for essays and compo- 
sitions. A few subjects are suggested as follows: 

" Henry Hudson the Navigator." 

" State of Geographical Knowledge in 1609." 

" The Sea Kings of England and Holland and what they did 
for free navigation." 



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" Instruments used in navigation in Hudson's time." 

" The League of the Iroquois." 

" The River Indians and How they Received Hudson." 

" Legends of the Indians." 

" The settlement of New Netherland." 

" The fur trade of New Netherland." 

" How the beaver influenced the history of New York." 

" Customs of. the Dutch settlers." 

" The relation of the Hudson River to the history of the State." 

" Robert Fulton the Inventor." 

" Fulton's Debt to other inventors." 

" Progress in steam navigation in loo years." 

" Description of an ocean voyage in 1609." 

" The scenery of the Hudson River." 

" Legends of the Hudson River." 

" The rank of the Hudson River with other rivers of the United 
States." 

" The Influence of the Erie Canal on the development of New 
York City and State." 

'■ The settlement of " (in the blank space insert 

the name of the town or city in which the writer lives.) This 
subject is especially recommended to stimulate the study of local 
history. 

Tableaux. 

It is difficult to make suggestions for tableaux which will be 
applicable to all parts of the State, to the different conditions 
under which they are to be given and to the varying resources of the 
participants. Tableaux can be given out of doors with natural 
surroundings which cannot be given in doors ; and effects can be 
produced in a theatre or large auditorium which cannot be had in 
a schoolroom. Each community must be guided largely by its 
own history, and each company by its own facilities. 

While the primary object of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration is 
to commemorate the achievements of Hudson and Fulton, it is 
designed also to stimulate the study of the local history of all the 
communities of the State. Therefore, any important or picturesque 
or interesting event in the annals of a town or city may appro- 
priately be represented. 

There are no more picturesque subjects than those relating to 
the Indians. If purely aboriginal life is to be represented, scenes 
may be given representing passages in the Legend of Hiawatha, 
which is supposed to depict the origin of the Iroquois. If there 
is any local Indian legend, it may likewise afford material. Scenes 
in Indian domestic life ; the making of pottery ; wooden dishes, 
bows and arrows, etc. ; the stringing of wampum ; an Indian meal ; 



Suggestions for General Commemorations 865 

the gathering of corn; the pounding of corn; Indian games, etc., 
are admirable subjects for purely Indian characters. 

Then there is a range of subjects, as wide as the State, dealing 
with the contact between the Indians and the white men. The 
settlers of New York were usually very scrupulous to buy their 
land from the Indians, even if the price paid was small, so that 
from the purchase of Manhattan Island by Peter Minuit in 1626 
to the Big Tree Treaty on the Genesee by which the Senecas parted 
with most of their land, there were innumerable incidents of that 
sort. Then there were a great many councils with the Indians 
like that on Bowling Green, New York; that between Stuyvesant 
and the Indians at Albany (Fort Orange) ; those of Sir William 
Johnson at Johnstown ; those under the Council Tree at Geneva, 
etc. The dealings of the fur traders with the natives are susceptible 
of simple and effective representation. Cooper's Leatherstocking 
Tales will suggest several picturesque scenes. Scenes of captivity 
may also be represented, and an incident like Mary Jemison's ar- 
rival -in the Genesee country with her Indian babe on her back, 
could be easily and strikingly portrayed. 

Henry Hudson may be represented as signing his contract with 
the directors of the Dutch East India Company ; or studing his 
globe and charts in the cabin of the Half Moon ; or debating with 
his unruly crew near Nova Zembla whether he shall return to 
Holland or sail for America ; or welcomed by the friendly Hudson 
River Indians. The famous feast, between Hudson city and Albany, 
when the Indians broke their bows and arrows to show their 
friendship, would make a striking scene. If facilities are available, 
a scene based on Collier's painting of "Hudson's Last Voyage " 
would be affective. 

Any phase of Dutch colonial life would be good. A Dutch 
youth and maiden promenading together or with the youth on his 
knees before his sweetheart, would represent a Dutch courtship. 
The rattle-watch — a darkened stage, with a watchman, going about 
with a lantern and whirling his wooden ratchet — could be easily 
produced. Men bowling at ten pins; or a Dutch school scene; or 
features of domestic life, such as spinning, weaving, threshing 
with a flail, churning by hand, polishing the pewter dishes, and 
cooking at the old fire-place, are good material to work upon. 

What has just been said about the Dutch period is equally applic- 
able to the English colonial period. A tea party of either colonial 
period could be made very pretty. 

In preparing for the presentation of historical scenes, the first 
essential is to read the local history of the town and pick out 
its leading events. Some incident connected with the first per- 
manent settlement of each town is particularly recommended. In 
New York city, the purchase of Manhattan Island in 1626 would 
represent the beginning of the Dutch period; the surrender of 



866 Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 

Fort Amsterdam by Peter Stuyvesant in 1664 the beginning of the 
English period ; and the reading of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence to the Continental Army, July 9, 1776 the beginning of the 
American period. The trial and acquittal of John Peter Zenger 
(1735) establishing the freedom of the press; citizens signing the 
nonimportation^ agreement (1765), citizens burning the British 
stamps (1765); Washington giving instructions to Nathan Hale 
(1776); Washington's farwell to his officers (1783) are suggest- 
ive of many others relating to colonial and revolutionary times. 
Where events are of national or state-wide importance there is no 
reason why one community should not borrow subjects from an- 
other. Washington refusing the crown at Newburgh, the adoption 
of the Constitution at Kingston, the Capitulation of Burogyne at 
Saratoga, and the making of the first American flag flown in 
battle at Fort Stanwix (Rome) are events in the latter class. 

Almost every community has had one pre-eminent historical 
character, like Peter Stuyvesant, George Clinton, Peter Schuyler, 
Kilian Van Rensselaer, Horatio Seymour, William H. Seward, or 
scores of others who could me named. Such a character, repre- 
sented in his most famous attitude or act, would make a tableau by 
itself. Often-times a local statute will convey a helpful suggestion 
in this direction. '' Living statuary," representing a soldier and 
sailor, would symbolize the civil war. 

Robert Fulton's life suggests several subjects, such as taking 
painting lessons from Benjamin West; working on a steamboat 
model ; making mechanical drawings ; conferring with ex-Presi- 
dent Jefferson, President Madison and others when he explained 
his torpedo plans, etc. 

Irving's Sketch Book can be drawn upon for Legends of the 
Hudson river, foremost among which is that of Rip Van Winkle 
and Henry Hudson's crew in the Catskills. 

These hints could be prolonged until they made a volume ; but 
perhaps enough has been said to suggest how to go to work and 
what subjects are available. The discovery of other appropriate 
subjects must be left to the studious ingenuity of the participants 
themselves. 

Exhibitions. 

School exhibitions may include the following things : 

Pictures of Henry Hudson; the Half Moon; Amsterdam; the 
Dutch people ; scenes along the coasts of Norway, Spitzbergen, 
Iceland, Greenland, Hudson Bay, the Maine coast, and the Hudson 
river. 

Indian relics of all kinds. 

Relics of early settlers. 

Pictures of Robert Fulton, early and modern steamboats and 
scenerv of the Hudson river. 



Suggestions for General Commemorations 867 

Pictures of the locality in which the exhibition is held, showing 
its early and present appearances in contrast. 

Views relating to the Erie canal. 

Old maps of North America and New York State, with pins used 
as markers to indicates voyages of early explorers. A large globe 
of the earth thus marked would be instructive. 

Children's Festivals. 

Saturday, October 2d, is the day particularly assigned to the 
children of the State for out-door festivals. 

Places. — These festivals may be held on the rivers, river-sides 
village greens, parks, park lakes, roads, boulevards, avenues, streets 
or parts of streets set aside for occasion, recreation piers, open 
fields, vacant lots, playgrounds, campuses and athletic fields. If 
the weather should be inclement or if for other reason it should 
be advisable to have the festivals under cover, use could be made of 
armories, large halls, recreation centers and roof gardens. 

Form of Festivals. — The festivals themselves may take the form 
of (a) dramatic presentations, with literature and arts portraying 
the heroes, the people, the civilization of 1609, and symbols of 
development — scientific, industrial, social, political, educational. 
Or (b) they may take the character of aquatic or land processions 
or pageants with arches, poles, banners, emblems, coats of arms, 
insignia of all kinds, colors, and streamers, so far as possible to be 
made by the school children as school work. The symbols should 
suggest the sources of the Hudson, the different cities and towns in 
succession blessed by its waters, the various products borne by it 
for distribution to mankind in all parts of the world ; and also the 
various nationalties which in succession have come to sharein the 
blessings of the river. And (c) there may be home parties for 
children and young people wiih costumes, plays, games, charades, 
etc., illustrative of different features of the places and events. 

Rejoicing. — Folk dancing of all nations, in succession and 
then in unison as one people, is suggested as a form of rejoicing; 
also historical excursions; tournaments; golf; tennis, and other 
ball games ; all games for kindergarten and older children in parks, 
in streets set aside for the purpose, in open fields, and vacant lots 
— wherever individuals or neighborhood committees make it pos- 
sible for children to play. Separate places should be provided for 
the segregation of kindergarten and small children. In com- 
munities near the Hudson river, the participants should, if pos- 
sible, hold their rejoicings on the shores of the river and harbor. 

Co-operation. — Schools, committees and individuals arranging 
children's festivals should secure, if possible, the co-operation of 
departments of education, departments of parks and various other 



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departments of governmeiiit ; institutions, playground associations, 
athletic leagues, clubs, associations, societies, neighborhood leagues 
and committees. An individual, a committee or a society may 
select and improve even a vacant lot as a possible place for some 
form of celebration by children. Each school, institution, club, 
society, or neighborhood committee should provide a building or a 
playground and organize for the children of the school or neigh- 
borhood various forms of entertainment. The improvement of such 
vacant lots may lead .eventually to the establishment of permanent 
parks or play-grounds. 

Books. 

Following is a partial bibliography for the aid of the student. 
In some of the books mentioned are more extensive lists: 

/Hc?/fl;;.f.— Morgan's ''League of the Iroquois," and Ruttenber's 
"History of the Indian Tribes of the Hudson" (rare) are recom- 
mended with the following more accessible publications of the 
New York State Museum : " History of the New York Iroquois," 
" Aboriginal Occupation of New York," "Aboriginal Chipped Stone 
Implements of New York," " Polished Stone Articles Used by the 
New York Aborigines," " Earthenware of the New York Ab- 
origines," " Wampum and Shell Articles used by the New York 
Indians," " Horn and Bone Implements of the New York In- 
dians," " Metallic Implements of the New York Indians," "Me- 
taljc Ornamenls of the New York Indians," etc. 

England and Holland. — Greene's "Short History of England" 
and Motley's " History of The Netherlands " will give the relations 
of the countries prior to and at the time of Hudson's voyages. 
"■ Motley's Dutch Nation," by Wm. Elliot Griffis. D. D., L. H. D.. 
condenses into one volume Llotley's " Rise of the Dutch Republic " 
and in addition brings the historical narrative down to 1908. 

Early J^oyagcs. — John I-^iske's "Discovery of America," chapters 
I and II of his " Old Virginia and Her Neighbors " and his " Dutch 
and Quaker Colonies in America " are fascinating reading concern- 
ing the sea-kings, western discoveries and American colonization. 
Volume IV of Windsor's " Narrative and Critical History of 
America" contains a great fund of information on the subject. 
" Purchas His Pilgrimes " published in 1625 is ditificult of access 
but useful to the critical student. For individual pre-Hudson voy- 
ages, the following " Old South Leadets," published by the Direct- 
ors of the Old South Work, Boston, Mass. and costing five cents 
apiece, are very useful : No. 17, " Verazzano's Voyage ; " No. 29, 
"The Discovery of America;" No. 31, "The Voyages to Vinland ;" 
No. 37, "The Voyages of the Cabots;" No. 115, "John Cabot's 
Discovery of North America," and others mentioned in their list 
whicli is sent on application) to them. 



Suggestions for General Commemorations 869 

Henry Hudson. — John Meredith Read's " Historical Inquiry Con- 
cerning Henry Hudson" is the most exhaustive investigation of his 
life, but is rare. Henry C. Murphy's " Henry Hudson in Holland "' 
is also rare. Edgar Mayhew Bacon's "Henry Hudson, his Times 
and his Voyages " is perhaps the most convenient and accessible 
modern book on the subject. 

Discovery of the Hudson River. — Asher's "Henry Hudson the 
Navigator " is an exhaustive and critical account of Hudson's 
voyages \vith full bibliography, but rare. Purchas' Pilgrims, (rare) 
reprinted in the New York Historical Society Collections, Vol. I, 
gives accounts of all four of Hudson's voyages. B. F. De Costa's 
" Sailing Directions of Henry Hudson " contains a dissertation on 
the discovery of the Hudson but is also rare. John Fiske's " Dutch 
and Quaker Colonies in America " is by far the most readable 
and condensed account of the discovery of the river. Bacon's 
" Henry Hudson," above referred to, is also excellent. Yates & 
Moulton's " History of New York " has a running commentary 
on Hudson's voyage up the river. Old South Leaflet, No. 94, " The 
Discovery of the Hudson River " gives that portion of Juet's diary 
of Hudson's voyage relating to the river. The American Scenic 
and Historical Preservation Society's "Eleventh Annual Report," 
(1906) contains Juet's Journal, also a fac-similc of Hudson's 
contract with the Dutch East India Company. 

Settlement of Neiv Nctherland. — Chapter VHI of Volume IV of 
Winsor's " Narrative and Critical History of America " is an 
interesting and condensed account of the Dutch in America, with 
sources of information and a valuable bibliography. Fiske's " Dutch 
an.d Quaker Colonies " should also be consulted. The first volume 
of Gen. James Grant Wilson's " Memorial History of New York '' 
is the most scholarly and detailed account of the discovery and 
colonization/ of New Netherland. Old South Leaflet, No. 69, 
contains the " Description of New Netherland by Adrian Van der 
Donck." 

The Hudson River. — Lossing's " Hudson from the Wilderness to 
the Sea " and Bacon's " Hudson River from Ocean to Source " 
are interesting, descriptive and historical works. 

Robert Fulton.— Colden's " Life of Robert Fulton " and Reigart's 
"Life of Robert Fulton " are the fullest biographies of the inventor, 
but the date and place of his death are erroneously stated in both. 
Convenient small books are " Robert Fulton, His Life and its 
Results," (194 pp.), by R. H. Thurston, and "The Story of 
Robert Fulton," (120 pp.), by Peyton F. Miller. 

Steam Navigation. — The fullest work on this subject is Admiral 
Preble's " Chronological History of the Origin and Development of 
Steam Navigation." A brief account is to be found in Old South 



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l.ealiets, No. 108, " The Invention of the Steamboat." A valuable 
short book is " A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam 
Navigation from Authentic Documents" (printed in 1848), by 
Bonnet Woodcroft, Professor of Alacliinery in the University 
College of London and editor of the indexes of British patents. 

Local Histories. — It is not possible in these pages to give titles 
of local histories. These should invariably be consulted, however. 

The librarians of public libraries will almost always make helpful 
suggestions to inquiring students. 



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Minutes of February 24, 1909, 
and Full List of Committees 



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Headquarters : Tribune Building, New York 
Telephones : Beekman, 3097 and 3098 



President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting Presi- 
dent. 182 William Street, New York. 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 
Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Hon. Seth Low, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary A.ssistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

.Assistants to tHe Secretary- 
Mr. George N. Moran, Mr. David T. Wells. 

General Executive .Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



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Revised to March 8, 1909. 



The name? of Trustees are set in italics. 

The names of the Mayors of the 47 cities of the State, who are 
members of the Commission and Trustees by virtue of their ottice, 
are designated thus (*). . , -n 1 

The names of the Presidents of 38 mcorporated villages along 
the Hudson river who are members^of the Commission by virtue 
of their office are designated thus (t). 



Abraham Abraham. 

*Hon. James N. Adam. 

Edward D. Adams. 

Herbert Adams. 

William P. Adams. 

William A. Adriance. 

Hon. John (J. Agar. 

Richard B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alphonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. Arthur L. Andrews. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James K. Apgar. _ 

Charles H. Armatage. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 

Frank N. Bain. 

Geo. Wm. Ballou. 

Hon. Theodore M. Banta. 

*Hon. John C. Barry. 

Col Franklin Bartlett. 

Dr. George C. Batcheller. 

Constr. Wm. J. Baxter, U.S.N. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

Hon. James M. Beck. 

*Hon. F. Becbe. 

August Belmont. 

tHon. M. S. Beltzhoover. 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 

tHon. Frank E. Bennett. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. William Berri. 

Hon. John Bigelow. 

Hon. Frank S. Black. 

Hon. E. W. Bloomingdale. 

Henry L. Bogert. 

G. Louis Boissevain. 

George C. Boldt. 

Reginald Pelham Bolton. 

Hon. David A. Boody. 

Hon. A. J. Boulton. 

tHon. Horace W. Boyd. 



Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 
Com. Herbert L. Bridgman. 
George l\ Brozver. 
Dr. E. Family Brown. 
Hon. M. Linn Bruce, 
h award P. Bryan. 
William L. Bull. 
tHon. D. A. Bullard. 
Cornelius F. Burns. 
tHon. Clifford Bush. 
Flenry K. Bush-Brown. 
Hon. E. H. Butler. 
Hon. J. Rider Cady. 
John F. Calder. 
Hon. J. H. Callanan. 
Henry IV. Cannon. 
Herbert Carl. 
*Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 
Andrezv Carnegie. 
Gen. Hozvard Carroll. 
John J. Cavanagh. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 
John Clatlin, 

Sir Caspar Pur don Clarke. 
tHon. J. H. Clarkson. 
Hon. George C. Clausen. 
Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 
Frederick J. Collier. 
E. C. Converse. 
Walter Cook. 
"•'Hon. Charles W. Cool. 
Charles F. Cossum. 
Hon. John H. Coyne. 
*Hon. IV. P. Crane. 
Paul D. Cravath. 
Johni B. Creighton. 
Hon. John D. Crimmins. 
Frederick R. Cruikshank. 
E. D. Cummings. 
jl'iiliam J. Curtis. 
rCfbert Fulton Cutting. 
Frederick B. Dalzell. 
■'Hon. Jacob FI. Dealy. 



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lion. Robert IT. dc Forest. 

I[on. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montaiiye. 

Elias S. A. de Lima. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. DclVitt. 

Cievelanid H. Dodge. 

Henry H. Doremus. 

'^■Hon. Edw'ard W. Douglas. 

Dr. James Douglas. 

*Hoii. Anthony C. Douglass. 

tHon. James H. Doyle. 

Kon. Andrew S. Draper. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Hon. John F. Dryden. 

Capt. Charles A. DuBois. 

John C. Eaiiies. 

*Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 

George Ehret. 

*Hon. Meyer E'uistein. 

Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Hon. Philip Elting. 

Matthew C. Ely. 

Robert Erskine Ely. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet. 

Hon. Arthur English. 

Most. Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Morris P. Ferris. 

Hon. Hamilton I'ish. 

Stiiyvesant Fish. 

*Hon. Louis T. Fisk. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

1"Hon. James F. FitzGerald. 

Hon. James J. Fitzgerald. 

Frederick S. Flower. 

tHon. John T. Flynn. 

*Hon. Alan C. Fobes. 

*Hon. Win. Follette. 

Thomas Fozvell Foivler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Commander W. B. Franklin. 

IHon. James L. Freeborn. 

tHon. Lyman C. French. 

Henry C. Frick. 

*Hon. C. A. Frost. 

Lieut. Com. A. B. Fry. 

Henry Fuehrer. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Flon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hon. Charles H. Gaus. 

Hon. Theodore P. Gilman. 



Robert Walton Goelet. 

Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould. 

(George J. Gould. 

Maj.-Gcn. F. D. Grant. U.S.A. 

Capt. Richard H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. John W. Griggs. 

tHon. John Gross. 

Flon. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edzcard Hagantan Hall. 

Benjamin F. Flamilton. 

*Hon. M. D. Hanson. 

Robert J. Harding. 

Edward H. Harriman. 

W. R. Harrison. 

Hon. Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck. 

'■''Hon. Eugene J. Hauratto. 

Arthur H. Hearn. 

George A. Hearn. 

Chas. E. Heitmaii. 

Theodore Flenninger. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

tHon. C. W. Higley. 

Hon. H'arrei! Higley. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

James J. Hill. 

Thos. J. Hillery. 

Hon. Michael li. Hirschberg. 

Samuel I'er planch Hoffman. 

James P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Homan. 

'^Hon. Randolph Horton. 

*Hon. Benjamin Hozve. 

Hon. Henry E. Howland. 

Colgate Hovt. 

Dr. LeRoy"W. Hubbard. 

Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

tHon. John L. Hughes. 

*FIon. Francis M. Hugo, 

William T. Hunt. 

Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D. Huntting. 

Walter L. Hutchins. 

August F. Jaccaci. 

Col. William Jay. 

tHon. Roswell S. Judson. 

tHon. Irving J. Justus. 

Jacob Katz. 

James Kerney. 

*Hon. Albert Kessinger. 

Gen. Horatio C. King. 

David M. Kinnear. 



List of Members 



875 



Albert E. Kleiiiert. 
*Hoii. C. August Kocuii^. 
Hon. Henry Kohl. 
Dr. George F. Kiinz. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
*Hoii. Robert Laivrciice. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipciger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Hon. Phineas C. Lounsl)ury. 
Hon. Seth Loiv. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
tHon. Thomas Lynch. 
Col. Arthur ]MacArthur. 
Robert J. MacFarlancl. 
tHon. Joel D. Madden. 
*Hou. IV. H. Mandevdlc. 
*Hon. Elias P. Maun. 
William A. Marble. 
George E. Matthews. 
Flon. William McCarroll. 
*Hon. George B. McClcllau. 
*FIou. Benjamin McClung. 
Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. John J. McCook. 
Donald McDonald. 
tHon. Charles McElroy. 
Hon. Patrick F. McGowan. 
William J. MeKav. 
John J. McKelvey. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
tHon. John McLindon. 
*Hon. Thomas A. McNamara. 
Rear Admiral George IF. Mel- 
ville, U. S. N. 
Hon. John G. Milbnrn. 
Hon. Frank V. Millanl. 
Capt. Jacob W. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills, U.S.A. 
Ogden Mills. 

*JIon. George JI. Miuard. 
*IIr.,,. W. B. Moocrs. 
J. Pierfont Morgan. 
Flon. Fordham Morris. 
Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
"yHon. Dennis Moynihan. 
Hon. Franklin Murphy. 
tHon. Vincent A. Murray. 
IVilliam C. Musehenhcim. 



iHon. W. H. Myers. 

Nathan Newman. 

Charles H. Niehaus. 

Liidivig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Charles R. Norman. 

Flon. Morgan J. O'Brien. 

Hon. Benj. B. Odell, Jr. 

William R. O'Donovan. 

Flben E. Olcott. 

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

William Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O'SuUivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel A. Parker. 

John E. Parsons. 

Flon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Dr. Edward L. Partridge. 

Commander R. E. Peary, U.S.N. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

Hon. George W. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

Hon. Samui-l K. Phihips. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

'(Hon. Clarence E. Pozvell. 

*Hon. Richard M. Prangen. 

Hon. John D. Prince. 

Hon. Thomas R. Proctor. 

Flon. Cornelius A. Pugsley. 

tHon. A. F. Quick. 

*Hon. Edward Quirk. 

Louis C. Raegencr. 

John H. Ramsay. 

*Hon. George G. Raymond. 

Herman Ridder. 

Edward Robinson. 

WilUam Rockefeller. 

''Hon. W. J. Rockefeller. 

Maj.-Gcn. Charles F. Roe. 

Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romainc. 

*FIon. Arthur P. Rose. 

tHon. A. Rowe. 

Thomas F. Rvan. 

Col. Henry IV. Sackett. 

*Hon. John K. Sague. 

Col. William Gary Sanger. 

*Hon. A. B. Santry. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Salter lee. 

John Scanlon. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn. 

Hon. Charles A. Schiercn. 



876 



List of Members 



Jacob H. Schiff. 

Dr. Gustav Scholer. 

Pres. Jacob Gould Schunnan. 

Gustav H. ScJnvah. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Wallace M. Scudder. 

Oscar R. Seitz. 

Isaac N. Seligman. 

Louis Seligsberg. 

Hon. Frederick IV. Sczvard. 

*Hon. Daniel Sheehan. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman. 

/. Edivard Siuunons. 

John W. Simpson. 

John J. Sinclair. 

*Hon. C. M. Slanson. 

Hon. Henry Smith. 

tHon. Isaac H. Smith. 

*//on. Jolm K. Smith. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

*Hon. Henry F. Snyder. 

William Sohmer. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Spcyer. 

Hon. George V. L. Spratt. 

Hon. John H. Starin. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. ' 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Hon. Edward C. Stokes. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

tHon. F. Herbert Sutherland. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Leslie Sutherland. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

*Hon. H. B. Szvartzvout. 

George W. Sweeney. 

Stevenson Taylor. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson. 

tHon. Fred. W. Titus. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Irving Townsend, M. D. 

Spencer Trask. 

Peter H. Troy. 

tHon. Arthur C. Tucker. 

C. Y. Turner. 

Albert Ulmann. 



Lieut. Com. Aaron Vanderhilt. 

Alfred G. I'anderbilf. 

Cornelius I'andcrbilt. 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. 

Warner Van Norden. 

William B. Van Rensselaer. 

*Hon. Horace S. Van Voast. 

John R. Van Wormer. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

William G. Ver Planck. 

Hon. Foster M. Voorhees. 

tHon. C. E. Vredenburg. 

Flon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Charles G. F. Wahle. 

Capt. Aaron Ward, U. S. N. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 

*Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 

tHon. Robert B. Waters. 

tHon. Anthony J. Weaver. 

tHon. E. L. Wemple. 

Hon. George T. Werts. 

Charles W. Wetmorc. 

Edmund Wctmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

*Hon. Thomas Wheeler. 

Hon. J. DuPratt White. 

Fred. C. Whitney. 

Gen. W. C. S. Wilev. 

Hon. William R. Will cox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Frederick W. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

tHon. John Wirth. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Hon. H. Otto Wittpcnn. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

tHon. Edward J. Wood. 

J. S. Wood. 

Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, 

U. S. A. 
Gen. Stezi'art L. Woodford. 
Hon. Timothy L. JVoodrutf. 
W. E. Woolley. 
William Wortman. 
James A. Wright. 
*Hon. Frederick AL Young. 
Hon. Richard Young. 
tHon. F. G. Zinsser. 



List of Members 877 



Dr. A. Bredius, No. 6 Prinsegracht, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft, No. 609 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, The Nether- 
lands. 

Hon. D. Hudig, No. 105 Wijn Haven, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 

Dr. W. Martin, No. 26 Emmastraat, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W. Moes, No. 85 Franz von Mierisstraat, Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands. 



i£\Bt of (Enmmtttea 

Revised to March 8, 1909. 



Aeronautics Committee 

To consider the feasibility of, and, if practicable, arrange for 
an exliibition of llying machines. 

Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman 44 Vv'all Street, New York. 

Hon. William Berri 15 Hanover Place, Brooklyn. 

Hon). Theodore P. Oilman 237 Fulton Street, New York. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt 11 Lexington Ave., New York. 

Art and Historical Exhibits Committee 

To invite and to co-operate in securing exhibits of paintings, 
prints, books, models, relics, plants and animals of the historic 
periods, etc., by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American 
Museum of Natural History, the Hispano-American Museum, 
the American Numismatic Society, the New York Public Library, 
the New York Historical Society, the New York Botanical Garden, 
the New York Zoological Garden, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences, Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders, the 
New York Yacht Club, and similar institutions; 

To co-operate with institutions in the publication of catalogues 
of exhibits ; 

And to secure, if practicable, with the co-operation of the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History, the establishment of a typical 
Indian Village at Inwood or on the site of Nipnichsen Castle at 
Spuyten Duyvil. 
J. Pierpont Morgan, General Chairman.. 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Siib-Couimittcc on Art Exhibits 

Hon. Robert W. deForest, Chairman.. 30 Broad Street, New York. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. IMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

Edward Robinson Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

George A. Hearn 20 West 14th Street, New York. 

Dr. George F. Kunz 401 Fifth Avenue, New York. 

Siib-Coiiuiiittcc on Historical Exiiibits 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Chairman 401 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Samuel V. Hoffman 258 Broadway, New York. 

Archer M. Huntington 1083 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn..Am'n jNIuseum of Natural History. 

Aquatic Sports Committee 

To arrange for aquatic sports on the Hudson River on Wednes- 
day, September 29, and Saturday, October 2, to be participated 
in by crews from the men-of-war, and by yacht, motor and row- 
ing clubs. 

Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Chairman Pier 19, N. R., New York. 

A.'H. Alker 338 Madison Ave., New York. 

Constructor Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N....Navy Yard, New York. 

E. C. Converse 7 Wall Street, New York. 

Frederick B. Dalzcll 70 South Street, New York. 

Lieut. Com. A. B. Frv Custom House, New York. 

William J. McKay Newburgh, N. Y. 

Hon. Nathan A. Warren Yonkers, New York. 



List of Committees 879 

Auditing Committee 

To examine and approve bills for payment in concurrence with 
the Board of Trustees ; 

And to audit the reports and accounts of the Treasurer. 

Hon. N. Tajdor Phillips, Chaitman 280 Broadway, New York. 

Horn Warren Higley 165 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. William McCarroll Tribune Building, New York. 

Badges, Flag and Poster Committee 

Upon request of the Trustees or any Committee, to provide 
metal or ribbon badges for the official use of members of the 
Commission ; 

To reconmiend a design for an official flag; 

And to recommend a design for an official Poster. 

(This Committee will, upon request, furnish to any Committee 
desiring badges an estimate of cost of the same, so that the 
Committee desiring the badges may include the cost in the esti- 
mate of its expenses presented for the general budget.) 

August F. Jaccaci, Chairman 7 West 43d Street, New York. 

Herbert Adams 131 West iiili Street, New York. 

Louis Annin Ames 99 Fulton Street, New York. 

Barr Ferree 7 Warren Street, New York. 

Samuel V^. Hoffman 258 Broadway, New York. 

Frank D. Millet 6 East 23rd Street, New York. 

Louis Stewart 4 Washington Square, New York. 

C. Y. Turner 35 West 14th Street, New York. 

Banquet Committee 

To arrange for the Offi.cial Banquet in its various details. This 
includes the engagement of the banquet hall, the decoration of 
the hall, the engagement of the music, the selection of the bill of 
fare, the choice of speakers, the invitation of guests of honor, the 
printing, sale and distribution of tickets, and the printing of 
the menu. 

(Concerning tlie issuing of invitations see note under Invita- 
tions Committee. Concerning printing, see note on Printing at 
end of list.) 
Francis Lynde Stetson, Chairman. ... 15 Broad Street, New York. 

Hon. William Berri 15 Hanover Place, Brooklyn. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 41 Park Row, New York. 

John B. Creighton 44 Court Street, Brooklyn. 

E. S. A. De Lima 24 State Street, New York. 

Robert E. Ely 23 West 44th Street, New York. 

Henry VV. Sackett Tribune Building, New York. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 15 Washington Square, New York. 

Carnival and Historical Parades Committee 

To arrange for the Historical Parade on Tuesda}', September 
28, and for the Carnival Parade on Saturday evening, October 2, 
and any repetitions of those parades that may be decided upon by 
the Trustees. These duties include : 

The selection of the places for the parades ; 
The selection of subjects to be represented, subject to the ap- 
proval of the Historical Committee ; 



88o List of Committees 

The designing and building of the floats; 

The selection of the participants; 

The designing and manufacture of costumes and equipments; 

The selection of the Grand Marshals and Staffs ; 

The hiring of music; 

The control of the otKcial reviewing stands for these occasions; 

And the issuing of invitations to the reviewing party. 

(Concerning the issuing of invitations, see note under Invita- 
tions Committee. Concerning printing of tickets, see note on 
printing at end of list.) 

Herman Ridder, Chairman 1S2 William Street, New York. 

Herbert v\dams 131 West nth Street, New York. 

B. Altman 25 Madison Ave., New York. 

August Belmont 2^ Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. William Berri 15 Hanover Place, Brooklyn. 

George C. Boldt Waldorf-Astoria, New York. 

Hon. David A. Boody 176 Montague Street, Brooklyn. 

Hon. George C. Clausen 277 Broadway, New York. 

George Ehret 235 East 92d Street, New York. 

Henry Fuehrer 569 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, 

Frank S. Gardner 203 Broadway, New York. 

Arthur H. Hearn 20 West 14th Street, New York. 

Theodore Henninger 83 White Street, New York. 

Colgate Hojt 36 Wall Street, New York. 

Gen. Horatio C. King 44 Court Street, Brooklyn. 

Hon. Gustav Lindenthal 45 Cedar Street, New York. 

Frank D. Millet 6 East 23d Street, New York. 

William C. Muschenheim Hotel Astor, New York. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon 43 Cedar Street, New York. 

Eben E. Olcott Desbrosses Street Pier, N. R., New York. 

William Church Osborn 71 Broadway, New York. 

Bayard L. Peck 32 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peekskill, New York. 

Louis C. Raegener 141 Broadway, New York. 

Carl J. Roehr Brooklyn Freie Presse, Brooklyn. 

Jacob H. Schiff 965 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Dr. Gustav Scholer 10 Jumel Terrace, New York. 

Oscar R. Seitz 76 William Street, New York. 

Louis Seligsberg 11 Broadway, New York. 

William Sohmer i Third Ave., New York. 

James Speyer 257 Madison Ave., New York. 

Hon. Louis Stern 993 Fifth Ave., New York. 

C. Y. Turner 35 West 14th Street, New York. 

J. Leonard Varick 257 Broadway, New York. 

Edmund Wetmore 34 Pine Street, New York. 

Charles B. Wolffram 22 North William Street, New York. 

Children's Festivals Committee 

To encourage public school children and juvenile institutions and 
organizations to hold children's festivals out-of-doors on Saturday, 
October 2. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons, Chairman 1133 Broadway, New York. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury 145 West 86th Street, New York. 

Morris P. Ferris 676 West End Ave., New York. 

Dr. E. R. L. Gould 301 West 77th Street, New York. 

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List of Committees 88 1 

Willis Holly 17 Park Row, New York. 

Prest. Jacob Gould Schuriuan Ithaca, New \ ork. 

George R. Sutherland 49 Wall Street, New \ork. 

Hon. Richard Young 87 Lincoln Road, Brooklyn. 

Clermont Committee 

After its constructiun, to receive the fac-simile of the Clermont; 
To arrantre for its berthing or anchorage, protection and ex- 
hibition prior to the Naval Parade of Friday, October i ; 

To manage it during the Naval Parades to. at and above New- 

"-JV)^ conduct it on the following day with the North Hudson 
squadron to the head of navigation; 

To make recommendations to the Connnission concerning its 
final disposition after the Celebration; and to attend to the execu- 
tion of the Commission's decision on that subject. 

(The Naval Parade Committee will be responsible for the design 
and construction of the Clermont. In the Naval Parade the Cler- 
mont Committee, like the commanders of all other vessels, will be 
subject to the arrangements of the Naval Parade Committee.)^ 
Fben E. Olcott. Chairman. . Desbrosses St. Pier, N. R., New York. 

Constructor Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N Navy Yard, Brooklyn. 

Robert Fulton Cutting 32 Nassau Street, New \ork. 

Frederick B. Daizell /O South Street, New York. 

Robert Ful'on Ludlow Claverack, New \ ork. 

Stcvensoa Taylor 123 West Sslh Street, New \ ork. 

Contracts Committee 

To have charge of the drawing of all formal contracts executed 

by the Commission. ^ „. ,, r^ xt a- 1 

Hon M. Linn Bruce. Chairman 18 Wall Street, New \ ork. 

H. L Eogert 99 Nassau Street, New York. 

Henry e'' Gregory 25 Liberty Street, New York. 

John J. McKefvey 84 William Street, New York. 

Nelson Spencer 27 Wiliiam Street, New \ ork. 

Decorations and Reviewing Stands Committee 

To invite the pubHc authorities and owners of great office build- 
ings, by individual letters, to decorate their buildings during cele- 
bration week ; • r ■ ui 

To suggest to the public authorities the erection of suitable street 
decorations, such as arches, courts of honor, etc. ; 

To make suitable appeals through the press to citizens generally 
to decorate their houses during the festival; 

Upon request of any other Committee to provide the decorations 
which it may need ; • • , r 1 

And to attend to the construction of reviewing stands for the 
open air functions, upon request of the Committees having such 
funct^oms in charge. _ ,•,,,• 1 

(The control of tl-.e use of the reviewing stands will be in the 
hands of the Committees having charge of the functions for 
which they are used.) t.t ^r , 

Charles R. Lamb, Chairman 2?, Sixth Ave., New York. 

John C. Fames 224 Church Street, New York. 

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882 List of Committees 

Albert E. Klcincrl i6 Court Street, Brooklyn. 

Homer Lee 563 West End Ave., New York. 

William Allen Marble • • • -395 Broadway, New York. 

Ludwig Nissen 182 Broadway, New York. 

W. R. O'Donovan 31 St. Nicholas Place, New York. 

George Henry Sargent 151 Leonard Street, New York. 

JohnVV. Simpson 62 Cedar Street, New York. 

Isaac Stern 32 West 23rd Street, New York. 

Henr\ R. Towne 9 Murray Street, New Y'ork. 

Dedications Committee 

Upon request of the Ccnnmittce on Memorials, to assist in the 
arrangements for the dedication of monuments or tablets which 
have been erected either by the Commission itself or which have 
been erected by other organizations with the oflicial countenance 
of this Commission ; 

And to promote generally the dedication of memorials of various 
sorts by other organizations. 

Hon. Warren Higley, Chairman 165 Broadway, New York. 

George Ciinton Batcheller 696 Broadway, New York. 

George V. Brov.er 44 'Court Street, Brooklyn. 

Frederick R. Cruikshank i Liberty Street, New York. 

Hen. Charles de Kay 413 West 23rd Street, New York. 

James de !a Montanye 239 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson Ehnhurst, New York. 

Walter G. Hudson 63 Wall Street, New York. 

T. i). lluntting .339 Broadway, New York. 

Jo!;n J. Sinclair i East 39th Street, New York. 

Executive Committee 

To perform th'^ usual duties of the Executive Committee as 
prescribed in the By-Laws. 
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Chairman.. 18 Wall Street, New York. 

John E. Parsons. Vice-Chairman 52 Wiliiam Street, New York. 

Hon. James M. Beck ' . .44 Wall Street, New York. 

Tunis G. Bergen 55 Liberty Street, New York. 

Hon. William Berri 15 Hanover Place, Brooklyn. 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East 91st Street, New York. 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 60 Wall Street, New York. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. .. .Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y. 

William I. Curtis 49 Wall Street, New York. 

Theodore Fitch 120 Broadway, New York. 

Austen G. Fox 45 Wall Street, New York. 

Edward Haganan Hall Tribune Building, New York. 

Col. Willinm Jay 48 Wall Street, New York. 

Dr. George F. Kunz 401 Fifth Ave., New York. 

John La ^Farge 51 West loth Street, New York. 

Hon. Seih Lov/ 30 East 64th Street, New York 

Hon. William M(!Carroll Tribune Building, New York. 

Captain Jacob W. Miller Pier 19, N. R., New York. 

Frank D. INIillet 6 East 23rd Street, New York. 

J. Pierpont Morgan 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton 38 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Morgan J. OT^rien 524 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Eben E. Olcott Desbrosses Street Pier, N. R., New York. 

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List of Committees 883 

Hon. George W. Perkins 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Hor.. N. Taylor Phillips 280 Broadway, New York. 

Gen. Horace Porter 277 Madison Ave., New York. 

Louis C. Raegener 141 Broadway, New York. 

Herman Ridder 182 William Street, New York. 

Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York. 

Isaac N. Seligman i William Street, New York. 

Hen. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, New York. 

J. Edward Simmons 14 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. John H. Starin g West 3Sth Street, New York. 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus 5 West 76th Street, New York. 

Spencer Trask 52 William Street, New. York. 

W m. B. Van Rensselaer Albany, New York. 

Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt Army & Navy Club, New York. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany, New York. 

Hen. Wm. R. VVillcox Tribune Building. Nev.^ York. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson 157 West 79th Street, New York. 

General Commemorative Exercises Committee 

To request and to assist, by pamphlets, correspondence, and other 
appropriate means, universities, colleges, public schools, historical 
and patriotic societies, and institutions of learnmg generally through- 
out the state, to hold commemorative exercises on Wednesday, 
September 29. 

President Jacnb G. Schurman, LL.D., Chairman Ithaca, N. Y. 

Hon. James N. Adam Bufifalo, N. Y. 

Hon. John C. Barry Cortland, N. Y. 

Hon. F. Beebe Johnstown, N. Y. 

Hon. David A. Boody 176 Montague Street. Brooklvn. 

Hon. E. H. Butler Buffalo, N."Y. 

Hon. Samuel A. Carlson Jamestown, N. Y. 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East 91st Street, New York. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater Kingston, N. Y 

Hon. Charles W, Cool Glens Falls, N. Y. 

Hen. Jacob H. Dealy Amsterdam, N. Y. 

Hon. Edward W. Douglas Ogdensburgh, N. Y. 

Hon. Anthony C. Douglass Niagara Falls, N.Y. 

Hon. Andrew S. Draper Albany, N. Y. 

Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton Rochester, N. Y. 

Hon. Meyer Einstein Dunkirk, N. Y. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett Elmira, N. Y. 

Hon. Louis T. Fisk North Tonawanda, N. Y. 

Hon. Alan C. Fobes Syracuse, N. Y. 

Hon. William FoIIette Tonawanda, N. Y. 

Hon. C. A. Frost Oneida, N. Y. 

Dr. E. R. L. Gould 301 West 77th Street, New York. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout in Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Randolph Horton Ithaca, N. Y. 

Hon. Francis M. Hugo Watertown, N. Y. 

Hon. Albert Kessinger Rome, N. Y. 

Hon. C. August Koenig Auburn, N. Y. 

Hon. Robert Lawrence Middletown, N. Y. 

Dr. Henry M. Leipziger 500 Park Ave.. New York. 

Hon. W. H. Mandeville Olean, N. Y. 

George E. Matthews Buffalo, N. Y. 

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884 List of Committees 

Hon. St. Clair McKelway.. Daily Eagle Office, Brooklyn. 

Hon. Thomas A. McNamara Corning, N. Y. 

Hon. Geo. H. Minard Lockport, N. Y. 

Hon. W. B. Mooers Plattsburg, N. Y. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons 1 133 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Richard M. Prangen Hornell, N. Y. 

Hon. Edward Quirk Fulton, N. Y. 

Hon. Arthur P. Rose Geneva, N. Y. 

Col. William Gary Sanger Sangerfield, N. Y. 

Hon. A. B. Santry Little Falls, N. Y. 

Hon. Daniel Slieehan Elmira, N. Y. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard 128 Broadway, New York. 

Hon.- C. M. Slauson Binghamton, N. Y. 

Hon. John K. Smith Oswego, N. Y. 

Hon. Henry B. Swartwout Port Jervis, N. Y. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland Salamanca, N. Y. 

Hon. Thomas Wheeler Utica, N. Y. 

Charles R. Wilson Mutual Life Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Hon. Frederick M. Young Glovcrsvillc, N. Y. 

Half Moon Committee 

To keep in touch and collaborate with the Committee of citi- 
zens of Holland who are building the fac-simile of the Half 
Moon- ; 

To receive it upon arrival, and have the care of its berthmg 
or anchorage, and its protection and exhibition prior to the 
Naval Parade; 

To have charge of it during the Naval Parades to, at and above 
Newburgh. 

And to make recommendations to the Commission concerning 
its final disposition after the celebration and to execute the decision 
of the Commission on that subject. 

(The Reception and Hospitality Committees will, upon request 
of the Half Moon Committee, co-operate with the latter in prop- 
erly receiving and entertaining the Hollanders who bring the Half 
Moon. In the Naval Parade, the Half Moon Committee will be 
subject to the arrangements of the Naval Parade Committee. 
Co'. Herbert L. Satterlee, Chairman. ... 120 Broadway, New York. 

Tunis G. Bergen '.55 Liberty Street, New York. 

Georse G. De Witt 88 Nassau Street, New York. 

Lt. Wm. B. Franklin, U. S. N m Broadway. New York. 

Capt. Chas. H. Loring, U. S. N 239 Claremont Ave.. Brooklyn. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn 1286 Broadway, New York. 

John R. Van Wormer 3-2 East 42d Street, New York. 

William G. Vcr Planck I49 Broadway, New York. 

Historical Committee 

To pass .upon and if necessary revise any historical publica- 
tion of the Commission, such as the " Book of the Pageant," the 
"Historical Souvenir Book," etc.. if such be printed; 

To approve of the historical subjects proposed for representation 
by the Carnival and Historical Parades Committee; 

And to advise with any other Committee of the Commission 
upon anv question of historical fact or propriety. 

Samuel V. Hoffman, Chairman 258 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Theodore M. Banta 346 Broadway, New York. 

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List of Committees 885 

Hon. John D. Crimmins 624 Madison Ave., New York. 

Hon. Arthur English 43 Exchange Place, New York. 

Winchester Fitch 300 West 8ist Street, New York. 

William Homan i West 97th Street, New York. 

Clarence E. Leonard Caryl, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder 320 West 91st Street, New York. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman Yonkers, N. Y. 

Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke V,--y\:- P"nceton, N. J. 

Hon. John S. Wise 20 Broad Street, New York. 

Hospitality Committee 

Upon request of any committee whose duties involve the in- 
vitation of official guests who are to be entertamed at the expense 
of the Commission, to provide the necessary hotel accommodations 
for such guests and otherwise look out for their comfort and pleas- 

Dr' George C. Batcheller, Chairman. .. .696 Broadway, New York. 

G. 'Louis Boissevain 30 Pine Street New York. 

E S A De Lima 24 State Street, New York. 

William' Allen Marble 395 Broadway, New York. 

J. Leonard Varick 257 Broadway, New \ ork. 

Hudson River Scenery Committee 

To promote legislation ; 

To encourage private generosity; 

To foster public sentiment, and 

To co-operate with other organizations , . . 

With a view to securing the preservation of the natural beauty 
of the Hudson River. .^,. ^ xt -tr 1 

Hon Alton B. Parker, Chairman. .3 So. William Street, New York. 

Hon. John Bigelow 21 Gramercy Park New \ ork. 

Henry E. Gregory 25 Liberty Street, Nw York. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons ii33 Broadway, New York. 

Dr. Edward L. Partridge 19 Fifth Ave New York. 

Hon. George W. Perkins 23 Wall S reet. New York. 

Gen. Charles F. Roe 280 Broadway, New York. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee 120 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. J. Du Pratt White 31 Nassau Street, New \ork. 

Illuminations Committee 

To have oversight and control of the operations of the Pain 
Manufacturing Companv as Official Illuminators; . 

And to promote the general illumination by public authorities 
and private individuals as contemplated in the programme for 
Saturdav evening. October 2. -n. 1 1 ., 

Hon William Berri, Chairman 15 Hanover Place Brooklyn. 

Capt. Richard H. Greene 235 Central Park West, New York. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan 32 Nassau Street, New York. 

Henrv W. Wetmore 120 Broadway, New York. 

Fred 'C. Whitney 1402 Broadway, New \.ork. 

Invitations Committee 

To have engraved or printed and issued to guests of honor 
the official invitations issued in the name of the Commission; 



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And upon request of any other Committee, to provide such Com- 
mittee witli the invitations which it requires for the function in its 
charge. 

(All engraving and printing which is to be paid for out of 
subscription funds or sales of tickets or privileges may be or- 
dered of any engraver or printer; but if to be paid for out of 
funds appropriated by the State, must be done by the State Printer 
at Albany and may be ordered through the Secretary of the 
Commission.) 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Chairman 60 Wall Street, New York. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater Kingston, N. Y. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton 38 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 3 South William Street, New York. 

Gen. Horace Porter 2T] Madison Ave., New York. 

The President, ex-officio 18 Wall Street, New York. 

The Secretary, ex-officio Tribune Building, New York. 

Inwood Park Committee 

To secure the creation of a Public Park at Inwood Hill in the 
city of New York. 

John E. Parsons, Chairman 52 William Street, New York. 

Reginald P. Bolton 527 Fifth Ave., New York. 

William J. Curtis 49 Wall Street, New York. 

Dr. George F. Kunz 401 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Eben E. Olcott. . .Desbrosses Street Pier, North River, New York. 

Hon. George W. Perkins 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York. 

Law and Legislation Committee 

To pass upon questions of law arising in the course of the 
business of the Commission; 

And to draft and secure such legislation as may be necessary 
to carry out the Commission's objects. 

Francis Lvnde Stetson, Chairman i^ Broad Street, New York. 

Hon. James M. Beck 44 Wall Street, New York. 

William J. Curtis 49 Wall Street, New York. 

Theodore Fitch 120 Broadwav, New York. 

Col. William Jay 48 Wall Stree't, New York. 

Hon. John G. Milburn 54 Wall Street, New York. 

John E. Parsons 52 William Street, New York. 

Nelson S. Spencer 27 William Street, New York. 

The President, ex-ofiicio 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Lectures Committee 

To arrange for the delivery of free public lectures bearing on 
the history of the Hudson River under the auspices of the Board 
of Education of the city of New York, during celebration week. 
Henry M. Leipziger, Ph.D., Chairman. .500 Park Ave., New York. 

Herbert L. Bridgman Standard-Union, Brooklyn. 

Henry L. Stoddard Evening Post, New York. 

Richard B. Aldercroftt, Jr 220 Broadway, New York. 

Lower Hudson Committee 

Hon. Nathan A. Warren, Chairman, (Maj'or) Yonkers. 

Hon. John E. Andrus Yonkers. 

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List of Committees 887 

Hon. James K. Apgar Peekskill. 

Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover, (President) Irvmgton. 

Hon. Horace W. Boyd, (President) Nyack. 

Hon. 1 homas VV. Bradley Walden. 

Hon. John H. Coyne Yonkers. 

Theodore Fitch Yonkers. 

Hon. Lyman C. French, (President) Dobbs I*erry. 

Hon. John Gross, (President) Tarrytown. 

Hon. Benjamin Howe, (Mayor) Mount Vernon. 

Clarence E. Leonard Caryl, Yonkers. 

Hon. Clarence Lexow Nyack. 

Hon. Thomas Lynch, (President) Haverstraw. 

Hon. Joel D. Madden, (President) Ossmmg. 

Hon. Charles McElroy, (President) South Nyack. 

Hon. Frank V. Millard Tarrytown. 

Hon. Vincent A. Murray, ( President) Cold Sprmg. 

Hon. W. H. Myers, (President) Piermont. 

Gordon H. Peck West Haverstraw. 

Hon. Clarence E. Powell, (President) Croton-on-Hudson. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peekskill. 

Hon. George G. Raymond, (Mayor) New Rochellc. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman Yonkers. 

Flon. Isaac H. Smith, (President) Peekskill. 

Hon. Leslie Sutherland Yonkers. 

Hon. Arthur C. Tucker, (President) Upper Nyack. 

Hon. W. L. Ward Portchester. 

Hon. E. L. Wemple, (President) West Haverstraw. 

Hon. J. Du Pratt White Nyack. 

Edward C. Wilson Peekskill. 

Hon. John Wirth, (President) North Tarrytown. 

J S Wood Mount Vernon. 

Hon^ F. G. Zinsser, (President) Hastings. 

Medal Committee 

To arrange for the striking of the official commemorative medal ; 

To attend to the presentation of such copies as are given gra- 
tuitously to distinguished rulers; and 

To attend to the sale of copies otherwise disposed of to the 
members of the Commission or the public. 

Henry W. Cannon, Chairman lo Wall Street, New York. 

Edward D. Adams 7i Broadway, New York. 

Archer M. Huntington 1083 Fifth Ave., New York. 

August F. Jaccaci 7 West 43d Street, New York. 

John La Farge 51 West loth Street, New York. 

Frank D. IMillet 6 East 23d ^street. New York. 

Charles H. Niehaus 148 West 36th Street, New York. 

C. Y. Turner 35 West 14th Street, New York. 

Memorials Committee 

To consider and make recommendations to the Trustees con- 
cerning projects to erect monuments and tablets which seek the 
official endorsement of the Commission; 

To co-operate in the execution of such projects as are approved 
by the Commission ; 



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To attend to the erection of such monuments or tablets as may 
be ordered by the Commission itself; 

To arrange with the United States Treasury Department for 
the issue of commemorative coinage ; 

To arrange with the United States Postoffice Department for 
the issue of commemorative postage stamps ; 

To arrange either with the Postoffice Department or with a 
private company, for the issue of souvenir post-cards ; 

And to attend to the printing of a souvenir programme if one 
be authorized by the Trustees. 

Tunis G. Bergen, Chairman 55 Liberty Street, New York. 

Walter Cook 3 West 29th Street, New York, 

Cleveland H. Dodge 99 John Street, New York. 

Dr. James Douglas 99 John Street, New York. 

Samuel V. Hoffman 258 Broadwav, New York. 

Col. William Jay 48 Wall Street, New York. 

Frederick S. Lamb 23 Sixth Ave., New York. 

Hon. Seth Low 30 East 64th Street, New York. 

John Jay McKelvey 84 William Street, New York. 

Wm. C. Muschenheim Hotel Astor, New York. 

Hon. G. W. Perkins 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Gustav H. Schwab 5 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus 5 West 76th Street, New York. 

Hon. William R. Willcox Tribune Building, New York. 

Military Parade Committee 

To arrange for the Military Parade on Thursday, September 
30, in all its details. 

Maj. Gen. Charles F. Roe, Chairman 280 Broadway, New York. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett 5 Nassau Street, New York. 

Capt. C. A. DuBois 35<^5 Broadway, New York. 

Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A...Dep't of the Lakes, Chicago. 111. 

Gen. Anson G. McCook 319 Broadway. New York. 

Gen. A. L. Mills, U. S. A Iloilo, Philippine Islands. 

Gen. Horace Porter 277 Madison Ave., New York. 

Music Festival Committee 

To arrange for a Music Festival to be held Monday evening, 
September 27. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Chairman. .. .45 Cedar Street, New York. 

Henry Fuehrer 569 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn. 

Theodore Henninger 83 White Street, New York. 

Gen. Horatio C. King 44 Court Street, Brooklyn. 

Julius Lehrenkrauss 375 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 

Louis C. Raegener 141 Broadway, New York. 

Dr. Gustav Scholer 10 Jumel Terrace, New York. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren 34 Ferry Street, New York. 

Oscar R. Seitz 76 William Street, New York. 

Naval Parade Committee 

To be responsible in the first instance for the proper reception 
of the American and Foreign naval vessels attending on the in- 
vitation of the Commission. 

(In this duty, the Naval Parade Committee may call upon the 
Reception and Hospitality Committees for assistance.) 



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To make the preliminary arrangements for the construclion 
of the fac-simile of the Half Moon. 

(This has alrcadv been done; and the Half Moon CommUtee 
will be responsible "for further co-operation with the Committee 
of Hollanders.) 

To plan and make the preliminary arrangements for the con- 
struction of the fac-simile of the Clermont. 

(The Naval Parade Committee will notify the Clermont Com- 
mittee when the construction is so far advanced that further 
responsibility is turned over to that Committee.) 

\nd to arrange for and conduct the Naval Parade from .\e\v 
York to Newburgh on Friday, October i, and from New-burgi 
to New York on Saturday, October 2, and to have charge ot sucli 
other parades or ceremonies on the water as may be approved 
by the Commission. . . 

(In this parade the Half Moon and Clermont Committees will 
be subject to the directions of the Naval Parade Committee.) 
Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Vice-Chairman. .Pier 19, N. R. New York. 

Constructor Wm. J. Baxter, U. S. N Navy Yard, Brooklyn. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 41 Park Row, New York. 

Fred'k B. Dalzell 70 South Street, New \ ork. 

Cha^. E. H eitman 35 Wall Street, New York. 

August F. Jaccaci 7 West 43d Street, New York. 

Dr. George F. Kunz 401 Fifth Ave., New \ork. 

William J. McKay Newburgh N. Y. 

Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, U. S. N..532 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. 

Charles R. Norman 1 1 Broadway, New \'ork. 

Commander R. E. Peary 15 West 8ist Street, New York. 

Louis T. Romaine 68 Broad Street, New \ork. 

Hon. Henry Smith Central Park, New York. 

Hon. John H. Starin 9 vVest 3Sth Street, New York. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson 4t Wall Street, New \ ork. 

Lt-Com Aaron VanderbiU Army and Navy Club, New York. 

Capt. Aaron Ward, U. S. ,N Army Building, New York. 

Ne-w Jersey Committee 

To encourage and arrange for the participation of the citizens 
of New Jersey in the Celebration. 

Hon. Edward C. Stokes, Chairman Trenton, N. J. 

Henrv H. Doremus Newark, N. J. 

Hoil.'john F. Dryden Newark, N. J. 

Matthew C. Elv Hoboken, N. J. 

Hon. John W. Griggs Paterson, N. J. 

Thomas J. Hillery Boonton, N. J. 

William T. Hunt Newark, N. J. 

James Kerney Trenton, N. J. 

Hon. Franklin Murphy Newark, N. J. 

Hon. John Dvneley Prince Ringwood, N. J. 

John H. Ramsey Hackensack. N. J. 

Wallace M. Scudder Newark, N. J. 

Hon. Foster M. Voorhees Elizabeth, N. J. 

Hon. George T. Werts Jersey City, N. J. 

Hon. H. Otto Wittpcnn Jersey City, N. J. 



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Nominations Committee 

To consider and make to the Trustees recommendations con- 
cerning nominations for membership on the Commission ; 

To make nominations of Trustees for election at the annual 
meeting to be held on the first Wednesday after the 1st Monday 
in May, and to fill vacancies ; 

And to make nominations of Officers to be elected by the 
Trustees at their meeting on the fourth Wednesday in May. 

Theodore Fitch, Chairman 120 Broadway, New York. 

William J. Curtis 49 Wall Street, New York. 

Henry W. Sackett Tribune Building, New York. 

Col. John W. Vrooman Union League Club, New York. 

Tlie President, ex-othcio 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Official Literary Exercises Committee 

To arrange for the Official Literary Exercises on Tuesday 
evening, Septcmlx'r 2(S, in the Metropolitan Opera House, Car- 
negie Hall, and any other place that may be decided upon. 
Gen. James Grant Wilson, Chairman. .. 157 W. 79th St., New York. 

Reginald P. Bolton 527 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Edward DeWitt 88 Nassau Street, New York. 

Edmund Wetmore 34 Pi"e Street, New York. 

Edward Hagaman Hall Tribune Building, New York. 

Albert Ulmann 1 1 1 Broadway, New York. 

Patriotic Societies Committee 

To secure the furtherance of patriotic societies in the exercises 
of the celebration, and particularly in those of the carnival and 
historical parades. 

Theodore Fitch, Chairman 120 Broadway, New York. 

Louis A. Ames 99 Fulton Street, New York. 

Dr. George C. Batcheller 696 Broadway, New York. 

Marcus Benjamin 1703 Q Street, Washington, D. C. 

Edward DeWitt 88 Nassau Street, New York. 

Morris P. Ferris 6g6 West End Ave., New York. 

Clarence E. Leonard Caryl, Yonkers. 

Chas. A. Schermerhorn 1286 Broadway, New York. 

Edmund Wetmore 34 Pine Street, New York. 

Plan and Scope Committee 

To consider and make recommendations concerning the gen- 
eral plan and scope of the celebration. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman Montrose, New York. 

Hon. James M. Beck 44 Wall Street, New York. 

Tunis G. Bergen 55 Liberty Street, New York. 

Hon. William Berri 15 Hanover Place, Brooklyn. 

Hon. Robert W. dcForest 30 Broad Street, New York. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U. S. A..Dept. of the Lakes, Chicago, 111. 

Dr George F. Kunz 401 Fifth Avenue, New York. 

Hon. Beth Low 30 East 64th Street, New York. 

Hon. Wm. McCarroll Tribune Building, New York. 

J. Pierpont Morgan 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Eben E Olcott. .Dcsbrosses Street Pier, North River, New York. 

John E. Parsons 52 William Street, New York. 

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List of Committees 891 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley Peckskill, N. Y. 

Herman Ridder 182 William Street, New \ ork. 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York. 

Lt.-Com. Aaron Vanderbilt Army & Navy Club, New York. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 15 Washington Square, New York. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany, N. \ . 

Gen. James Grant Wilson I57 West 79tli Street, New \ork. 

The President, e.x-officio 18 Wall Street, New \ ork. 

Public Health and Convenience Committee 

To promote, during celebration week, by means of circulars, 
placards, bureaus of information, and other means, the health, 
comfort and convenience of the out-door public, and particularly 
of strangers unfamiliar with the facilities of the city. 
Dr. Eugene H. Porter, Chairman. . 181 West 73^ Street, New \ork. 

R B. Aldcroftt, Jr 220 Broadway, New York. 

George Wm. Ballon 428 East 48th Street, New York. 

Dr James C. Bavles 15 Gramercy Park, New York. 

John F Calder 50 Central Park West, New York. 

John J. Cavanagh 258 West 23d Street, New York. 

E. D. Cummings I49 Broadway, New \ ork. 

George F. Gregory 42 West 35th Street, New York. 

Dr. LeRoy Hubbunl 2036 Fifth Ave., New Y ork. 

Nathan Newman 106 Dresden Street, Brooklyn. 

Percy B. O'Sullivan 95 Wall Street, Ncav York. 

Dr. Irving Townsend b2 West 51st Street, New \ork. 

Public Safety Committee 

To promole pul)lic safety during cclelM-ation week by arrang- 
ing for the proper policing of reviewing stands and lines of march, 
and by such other means as may be necessary. 
Hon. William AlcCarroU, Chairman. 154 Nassau Street, New York. 

Abraham Abraham 420 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 

Hon. 1 homas W. Bradley Walden, N. Y. 

James P. Holland I59 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn. 

Jaccb Katz 124 East 85th Street, New York. 

Charles W. Lefler 73 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Warner Miller 100 Broadway, New York. 

Orrel A. Parker 120 Broadway, New York. 

Samuel H. Parsons 3 Broad Street, New York. 

Hon. Theodore Sutro 280 Broadway, New York- 

Hon Charles G. F. Wahle 220 Broadway, New York. 

Charles W. Wetmore 30 Broad Street, New York. 

W. E. Woolley Broadway and 67th Street, New York. 

James A. Wright Q Broadway, New York. 

Reception Committee 

To represent the Commi^^ioii in the formal reception of invited 
guests, either upon assignment by the Ofliccrs or Trustees of the 
Commission, or upon request of any Connniltee authorized to in- 
vite official guests. 

Hon. Scth Low, Chairman 30 East 64th Street, New York. 

Col John Jacob Asti^r 23 West 26th Street, New York. 

Hon. Janits M. Beck 44 Wall Street, New York. 

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Hon. Frank S. Black Troy, N. Y. 

Hon. A. J. Boulton 232 Gates Ave., Brooklyn. 

Andrew Carnegie 2 East 91st Street, New York. 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 60 Wall Street, New York. 

John Clallin 15 Washington Square, N., New York. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. .Metropol. Museum of Art, New York. 

Cleveland H. Dodge 99 John Street, New York. 

Hon. Smith Ely 103 Gold Street, New York. 

Most Rev. John M. Farley 452 Madison Ave., New York. 

Hon. Chas. S. Francis American Embassy, Vienna, Austria. 

Maj.-Gen. ¥. D. Grant, U. S. A Dcpt. of the Lakes, Chicago, 111. 

Hon. David B. Hill Albany, N. Y. 

Hon. Henrv E. Howland 15 Broad Street, New York. 

Gen. Thom'as H. Hubbard 2036 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Col. William Jay 48 Wall Street, New York. 

Hon. Phineas C. Lounsburv 257 Broadway, New York. 

Col. John J. McCook 10 West 54th Street, New York. 

Hon. George B. McClellan City Hall. New York. 

Hon. St. Clair McKelway Daily Eagle, Brooklyn. 

Rear Adm. G. W. Melville, U. S. N..532 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 

Hon. John G. Milburn 54 Wall Street, New York. 

Ogdeii Mills 15 Broad Street, New York. 

J. Pierpont Morgan 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Fordham Morris 4,t East 30lh Street, New York. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton 38 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 3 South William Street, New York. 

Gen. Horace Porter 277 Madison Ave., New York. 

Thos. R. Proctor Utica, N. Y. 

Herman Ridder 1S2 William Street, New York. 

William Rockefeller 26 Broadway, New York. 

Henry W. Sackelt Tribune Building, New York. 

Pres. Jacob G. Schurman Ithaca, N. Y. 

Isaac N. Seligman i William Street, New York. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, N. Y. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard 128 Broadway, New York. 

Francis Lvnde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York. 

Hon. Osca'r S. Straus 5 West 76th Street, New York. 

William B. Van Rensselaer Albany, N. Y. 

Dr. Sanmel B. Ward Albany, N. Y. 

Hon. William R. Willcox Tribune Building, New York. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson 157 West 79th Street, New York. 

Maj.-Gen. Leonard A. Wood, U.S. A.. Governors Island. New York. 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff Care of Sherry's, New York. 

Religious Services Committee 

To take such steps as may be necessary, by correspondence, 
circular or public appeal, to secure appropriate religious observances 
on Saturday, September 25, and Sunday, September 26. 

Hon. John G. Agar. Chairman 31 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. E. W. Bloomingdale 115 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. M. Linn Bruce 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Paul D. Cravath 52 William Street, New York. 

Robert Fulton Cutting 32 Nassau Street, New York. 

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet 89 Madison Ave.. New York. 

Hon. James J. Fitzgerald 2 Rector Street, New York. 

George A. Plimpton 70 Fifth Ave., New York. 

Warner Van Norden 786 Fifth Ave., New York. 



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Transportation Committee 

To arrange with railroad and steamboat lines for proper trans- 
portation facilities and favorable rates of fare. 

Gen. Howard Carroll, Chairman 41 Park Row, New York. 

Charles H. Armatage Albany, N. Y. 

E. P. Bryan 13 Park Row, New York. 

William Lanman Bull 17 Nassau Street, New York. 

E. S. A. De Lima 24 State Street, New York. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew 27 West S4th Street, New York. 

Stuyvesant Fish 216 Broadway, New York. 

Thomas Powell Fowler 56 Beaver Street, New York. 

Thomas F. Ryan 38 Nassau Street, New York. 

Upper Hudson Committee 

Hon. Arthur Mac Arthur, Chairman Troy. 

William P. Adams .^ Cohoes. 

William A. Adriance .' . . Poughkeepsie. 

Hon. Arthur L. Andrews Albany. 

Charles H. Armatage Albany. 

Frank N. Bain Newburgh. 

Hon. Frank E. Bennett, (President) Red Hook. 

Hon. Frank S. Black Troy. 

Hon. D. A. BuUard, (President) Schuylerville. 

Cornelius F. Burns Troy. 

Hon. Clifford Bush, (President) Corimth. 

Henry K. Bush-Brown Newburgh. 

Hon. J. Rider Cady Hudson. 

Hon. J. H. Callanan Schenectady. 

Hei bert Carl Kingston. 

Hon. J. H. Clarkson, (President) Cornwall. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater Kingston. 

Frederick J. Collier Hudson. 

Hon. Chas. W. Cool, (Mayor) Glens Falls. 

Chas. F. Cossum Poughkeepsie. 

Hon. Walter P. Crane, (Mayor) Kingston. 

Hon. James H. Doyle, (President) Fishkill. 

Hon. Wm. Draper Troy. 

Hon. Chas. A. Elliott, (President) Catskill. 

Hon. Philip Elting Kingston. 

Hon. Hamilton Fish Garrison. 

Hon. Jas. F. Fitzgerald, (President) Fort Edward. 

Hon. John T. Flynn, (President) Castleton. 

Hon. James L. Freeborn, (President) Tivoli. 

Hon. Charles H. Gaus Albany 

Abner S. Haight 49 Leonard Street, New York. 

Benj. F. Hamilton 120 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. M. D. Hanson, (Mayor) Cohoes. 

Robert J. Harding Poughkeepsie. 

W. R. Harrison Kingston. 

Hon. Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck Kingston. 

Hon. Eugene J. Hauratto, (Mayor) Watervliet 

Hon. C. W. Higlev. (President) Sandy Hill. 

Hon. David B. Hill Albany. 

Hon. Michael H. Hirschberg Newburgh. 

Hon. Henry Hudson, (Mayor) Hudson. 

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Hon. John L. Hughes, (President) Wappinger's Falls. 

Walter L. Hutchins Albany. 

Hon. Roswell S. Judson, (President) Matteawan. 

Hon. Irving J. Justus, (President) Fishkill Landing. 

David M. Knmear Albany. 

Hon. Henry Kohl Newburgh. 

Herman Livingston Catskill Station. 

R. Fulton Ludlow .'. Claverack. 

Hon. Elias P. Mann, (Mayor) Troy. 

Hon. Benjamin McClung, (Mayor) Newburgh. 

Donald McDonald Albany. 

Robert J. MacFarland Chatham. 

Wm. J. McKay Newburgh. 

Hon. John McLindon, (President) Victory Mills. 

Hon. W. B. Mooers, (Mayor) Plattsburg. 

Hon. Dennis Moynihan, (President) South Glens Falls. 

Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr Newburgh. 

Wm. Church Osborn 71 Broadway, New York. 

Bayard L. Peck :i2 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Samuel K. Phillips Matteawan. 

Hon. A. F. Quick, (President) Rhinebeck. 

Hon. A. Rowe, (President) Saugerties. 

Hon. W. J. Rockefeller, (Mayor) Rensselaer. 

Hon. John K. Sague, (Mayor) Poughkeepsie. 

John Scanlon Cohoes. 

Prof. John C. Smock Hudson. 

Hon. Henry F. Snyder, (Mayor) Albany. 

Hon. George V. L. Spratt Poughkeepsie. 

Hon. F. Herbert Sutherland, (President) Coxsackie. 

Hon. Fred W. Titus, (President) Athens. 

Peter H. Troy Poughkeepsie. 

Wm. B. Van Rensselaer Albany. 

Hon. Horace S. Van Voast, (Mayor) Schenectady. 

Hon. C. £. Vredenburg, (President) Mechanicville. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany. 

Hon. Robert B. Waters, (President) Green Island. 

Hon. Anthony J. Weaver, (President) Waterford. 

Gen. W. C. S. Wiley Catskill. 

Frederick W. Wilson Newburgh. 

Hon. Edward J. Wood, (President) Stillwater. 

William Wortman Hudson. 

Verplanck's Point Park Committee 

To endeavor to secure the creation of a public park at Ver- 
planck's Point by the State of New York. 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley, Chairman Peekskill, N. Y. 

Hon. James K. Apgar Peekskill, N. Y. 

Dr. E. Family Brown 509 Fifth Ave.. New York. 

Hon. J. Rider Cady Hudson, N. Y. 

Abner S. Haight 49 Leonard Street, New York. 

Hon. Warren Higley 165 Broadway, New York. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, N. Y. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward Albany, N. Y. 

Hon. W. L. Ward Portchester, N. Y. 

Hon. Joseph S. Wood.... 25 South Fourth Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 



List of Committees 895 

Ways and Means Committee 

To consider and make recommendations concerning the general 
financial plan of the Commission ; 

To receive and collate in budget form and to submit to the 
Trustees with recommendations the financial estimates of Com- 
mittees; 

To have charge of the raising of funds by public subscription 
if such a course be decided upon by the Trustees ; 

And to have charge of raising funds by such other means as are 
not undertaken by the Committee on Law and Legislation. 

Herman Ridder, Chairman 182 William Street, New York. 

Frederick S. Flower 45 Broadway, New York. 

Henry C. Frick Union League Club, New York. 

Robert Walton Goelet 19 West 17th Street, New York. 

George J. Gould 195 Broadway, New York. 

Edward H. Harriman 874 Fifth Ave., New York. 

James J. Hill Z^ Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Patrick McGowan City Hall, New York. 

John E. Parsons 52 William Street, New York. 

Hon. George W. Perkins 23 Wall Street, New York. 

Thomas F. Ryan 38 Nassau Street, New York. 

Hon. Frederick W. Seward Montrose, N. Y. 

J. Edward Simmons 14 Nassau Street, New York. 

Francis Lynde Stetson 15 Broad Street, New York. 

James Stillman 52 Wall Street, New York. 

Spencer Trask 52 William Street, New York. 

A. G. VanderbiU Grand Central Station, New York. 

The President, ex-officio 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Suggestion to Chairmen 
In former years, members of some other State Commissions have 
unwittingly incurred large personal responsibility by contracting 
obligations in disregard of certain provisions of law applicable to 
the use of State moneys. Those provisions require, among many 
other things, that printing must be done by the State Printer at 
Albany ; that salaried employees — secretaries, editors, stenog- 
raphers, artists, office boys, in fact almost every one rendering any 
kind of personal service, — must be chosen in compliance with the 
Civil Service rules ; that furniture, etc., must be purchased from 
the State Prison Commission, etc. Chairmen of Committees are 
therefore requested to order through the Secretary of this Com- 
mission all printing which is to be paid for out of State moneys ; 
also to make through the Secretary the necessary arrangements 
with the State Civil Service Commission concerning the employ- 
ment of personal assistants ; and to confer with him freely on any 
other question which may arise as to the requirements of law 
concerning the expenditure of State funds. 



897 
Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

February 24, 1909. 

The thirty-fifth meeting of the Trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission was held at headquarters 
in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street, New York 
City, Wednesday, February 24, 1909, at 3 o'clock. The 
Chairmen of Committees and the Secretary of the Upper 
Fludson Committee were also invited to be present. 

Roll Call 
Present : Mr. Herman Ridder, Acting President, presid- 
ing; and Hon. John G. Agar, Mr. Tunis G. Bergen, Hon. 
Wm. Berri, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. Theodore Fitch, 
Mr. Henry E. Gregory, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. 
Benjamin F. Hamilton, Mr. George A. Hearn, Hon. Warren 
Higley, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, Mr. August F. Jaccaci, Dr. 
George F. Kunz, Hon. Seth Low, Col. Arthur MacArthur, 
Mr. William McKay, Capt. Jacob W. Miller, Mr. William 
C. Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. John E. Par- 
sons, Flon. Samuel Parsons, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. 
Cornelius A. Pugsley, Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac 
N. Seligman, Hon. Henry F. Snyder, Mr. Francis T.ynde 
Stetson, Mr. Spencer Trask, Col. John W. Yrooman. and 
General James Grant Wilson. 

Absentees Excused. 
Regrets for absence were received from Hon. John C. 
Barry, Dr. George C. Batcheller, Mr. George V. Brower, 
Mr. William J. Curtis, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. 
Frank D. Millet, Dr. Eugene H. Porter, Gen. Chas. F. 
Roe, Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, Prest. Jacob Gould Schur- 
man, Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, Hon. Frederick \\ . Seward, 
Hon. E. C. Stokes and Dr. Samuel B. Ward, and they were 
excused. 



898 Minutes of Trustees 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the Trustees' meeting held January 27, 
1909, having- been printed and sent to all the members of the 
Commission, were approved as printed except that on page 
752 the name of Hon. Frank E. LUirnett was corrected to 
Bennett. 

Executive Committee's Proceed in <^s Ratified. 
The minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee 
held February 3, 1909, having been printed and sent to all the 
members, the Secretary offered the following resolution : 

Resolz'cd, That the acts and proceedings of the Executive 
Committee at its meeting held February 3, 1909, and re- 
corded in the printed minutes on pages yy/ to 786, both 
inclusive, be and they hereby are approved, ratified and 
confirmed. 

Carried. 

Treasurer's Report. 

Mr. Seligman presented the following report : 

To tJie Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission: 

I have the honor to report the state of the Treasury on 
February 24. 1909, as follows: 

Fund of $12,500 drawn under appropriation made by 
Chapter 325, Laws of 1906: 

Debit. 
Balance on hand January 2y, 1909 $1476 31 



Credit. 

By paid on approved vouchers : 

126. A. H. Stoddard, construction of floats.. . $526 50 

127. A. H. Stoddard, construction of floats. . 252 30 

128. A. H. Stoddard, salary for Jan- 

uary $416 66 

A. H. Stoddard, refitting shop. 12 65 

429 31 



February 24, 1909 899 

129. William Parry, part salary for January. $188 21 

130. State of New York, interest 80 49 

Total credit $1,476 81 

Total debit 1,476 31 

Balance to credit of new ac- 
count $0 50 



Fund of $162,500 appropriated by Chapter 466, Laws 
of 1908: 

Credit. 

By balance from old account $0 50 

By paid on approved vouchers : 

1. Erie Railroad Co., rental of grounds for 

workshop i ,000 00 

2. A. H. Stoddard, refitting- grounds and 

workshop 580 50 

3. A. H. Stoddard, refitting grounds and 

workshop 854 2}^ 

4. Wm. Parry, balance of salary for January. 436 79 

5. E. H. Hall, disbursements $153 70 

E. H. Hall, salary for January.. . 300 00 

453 70 

6. Geo. N. Moran, disbursements.. . $67 67 
Geo. N. Moran, salary for Janu- 
ary 291 66 

359 ZZ 

7. David T. Wells, disbursements. . $2 85 
David T. W^ells, salary for Janu- 
ary 208 33 

211 18 

8. Edward Weber, materials for refitting. ... 8 90 

9. Lehmaier & Bro., fac-simile letters 14 25 

10. Underwood Typewriter Co., duplicator. . 35 00 

11. N. Y. Telephone Co., service to January 

31st '. 26 35 

12. J. B. Lyon Co., printing 182 92 

13. Remington Typewriter Co., ribbons 7 00 

14. Amer. District Telegraph Co., December 

service 9 70 

15. Typewriter Exchange, rental of type- 

writers 6 00 

16. L. R. Hamersly & Co., " Who's Who?". . 5 00 



900 Minutes of Trustees 

I/. Henry Romeike, Inc., clippings, Novem- 
ber-December $7 08 

18. Title Guarantee & Trust Co., searching. . . 2 50 

19. Lillie Vreeland, mimeographing 25 25 

20. J. A. Cooke, mimeographing 1 1 35 

21. John Wanamaker, mat i 50 

22. Joseph Hawkes, pictures 15 50 

23. A. H. Stoddard, refitting 96 68 

24. A. H. Stoddard, refitting 856 67 

25. A. H. Stoddard, refitting $262 88 

A, H. Stoddard, construction of 

floats 1415 71 



1.678 59 
26. A. H. Stoddard, construction of floats. . . . 795 75 



Total credit $7,682 22 



Funds for the payment of these accounts have been ad- 
vanced by J. & W. Seligman & Co., pending the receipt of 
moneys from the State Treasurer. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligmax, 

Treasurer. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Assistant Secretary's Salary. 

Mr. Seligman called attention to the fact that the As- 
sistant Secretary was receiving less salary than some of the 
other members of the executive stafif, which was obviously 
unfair in view of the responsible duties devolving on him. 
Mr. Seliginan also spoke of the unique character of 
Mr. Hall's services and their great value to the Commission. 
He therefore moved that beginning with March i, 1909, the 
salary of the Assistant Secretary be fixed at $650 a month. 

The Acting President expressed his hearty approval of 
the Treasurer's motion, which was unanimously adopted. 

Bills Approz'cd for Payment. 

The payment of the following accounts, which had al- 
ready been approved by the Auditing Committee and paid 



February 24, 1909 901 

according to various resolutions was approved by the 
Trustees : 

A. H. Stoddard, refitting, payroll January 

30th $854 23 

A. H. Stoddard, refitting, payroll February 
6th 856 67 

A. H. Stoddard, refitting, February 

13th $262 88 

A. H. Stoddard, construction, Febru- 
ary 13th 1,415 71 

1,678 59 

A. H. Stoddard, construction, Febru- 
ary 20th 795 75 

$4,185 24 



The following bills were approved for payment, subject to 
examination and approval by the Auditing Committee : 

American District Telegraph Co., January 

service $16 55 

J. A. Cooke, mimeographing 3 00 

Curtin's Transfer & Storage Co., drop curtains 

(construction) 85 00 

De-Fi Manufacturing Co., carbon paper 3 50 

Enterprise Desk Co., chairs, desks, etc. (re- 
fitting) 56 50 

Chas. Goldstein, window glass (refitting) .... 52 50 

E. H. Hall, disbursements $149 28 

E. H. Hall, salary for February 300 00 

449 28 

Ignaz Hermann, tin and sheet-iron work (re- 
fitting) 135 05 

Lyman D. Jones, fire hose (insurance) 104 50 

Lehmaier & Bro., fac-simile letters 10 75 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing 93 92 

Manhattan Stove Co., heaters (refitting) 12 25 

Manhattan Woodworking Co., woodwork 

(construction) ydy 40 

Jacob W. Miller, disbursements (Clermont) . . 25 00 

Geo. N. Moran, disbursements $28 70 

Geo. N. Moran, salary for February. 291 66 

320 36 



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N. Y. Telephone Co., service February $25 56 

Wm. Parry, salary for February 625 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery. 24 35 

F. A. Ringler Co., photo-engravings 2 66 

Henry Romeike, Inc., press chppings 10 38 

Safety Fire Extinguisher Co., fire extinguisher 

(insurance) ■ 201 60 

Scheer & Ebert, phimbing (refitting) 211 05 

Stewart & Co., modeHng clay (construction) . . 22 50 
A. H, Stoddard, disbursements (con- 
struction) $44 84 

A. H. Stoddard, salary February. . . . 416 66 

461 50 

Typewriter Exchange rentals to March 3d. . . . 6 50 
Underwood Typewriter Co., paper and blot- 
ters 4 25 

Lillie Vreeland, mimeographing, etc 13 90 

John Wanamaker, cabinet and towels 6 75 

David T. Wells, disbursements $29 25 

David T. Wells, salary for February. 208 33 



Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., motors 
(construction) 

White Studio, photographs 

B. A. Wikstrom, designing 10 floats 

Wm. Wilkening, paint, hardware, etc. (con- 
struction) 

Jacob Zucker, office boy, February 



237 58 



135 


00 


33 


50 


500 


00 


678 


35 


24 


50 



$5,360 49 



Fifty Dollars Each J'^otcd for Float Designs. 
The Secretary, referring to the action of the Trustees on 
November 20, 1908 (pp. 626-627), making an allowance of 
$1,000 for artist's services in designing the floats for the 
parades, stated that the estimate was based on only 20 
floats for a single parade. In view of the extension of the 
plans for the celebration, and in order that the same rate 
might apply to floats exceeding 20 in number, he moved, 

That $50 per float be appropriated for the artist's designs 
for such number of floats as may be determined upon by 
the Carnival and Historical Parades Committee, it being 



February 24, 1909 903 

understood that this appropriation refers to the designs 
completed and accepted, and includes not only the making" 
of the preliminary sketches, but also the designing of the 
costumes used in connection with the floats. 

Mr. Stetson inquired what measures were being taken to 
secure the proper artistic effect of the floats. He had no 
objection to the motion, but he wanted to be sure that the 
designs were of a high artistic quality. 

The Secretary stated that the floats were being designed 
by Mr. B. A. Wikstrom, an artist of many years' experience 
in designing floats, who had been brought on from New 
Orleans expressly for this purpose. The designs were 
passed upon by the Historical Committee before they were 
accepted. 

Mr. Stetson said he understood that the Historical Com- 
mittee passed upon simply the historical propriety of the 
subjects and suggested that an art committee pass upon the 
artistic aspect of the designs. 

Mr. Hoffman, chairman of the Historical Committee, said 
that he would very gladly have the designs referred to a 
committee of artists if it were feasible, but he said that in 
the construction of floats they had to adopt designs that 
were practical and adapted to the historical subjects por- 
trayed ; that sometimes it was difficult to harmonize histori- 
cal propriety with artistic perfection, and that the Historical 
Committee was making every effort to produce a happy 
combination of both. To this end it was holding meetings 
and consultations with the artist weekly. He said that the 
painting of the floats would be deferred until the last thing, 
in order that they might appear fresh and untarnished in 
the parades. 

The motion was carried. 

Relative Cost of Day and Xight Floats Transposed. 
The Secretary, referring to the estimate of cost of floats 
given on page 729 and the resolution on page 730, in which 
it was proposed that the cost of the floats for the Carnival 
Parade at night should be $350 each and the cost of the 
floats for the Historical Parade in the dav time should be 



904 Minutes of Trustees 

$600 each, said that upon further study and a better un- 
derstanding of the requirements of the two parades, it had 
been deemed advisable to transpose these estimates, so that 
the day floats should cost $350 each and the night floats 
$600 each. This would involve no net increase in the total 
cost of the two parades. He therefore moved to amend 
the resolution on page 730 so as to read as follows : 

Resolved, That Mr. Stoddard's proposition to build the 
floats be accepted under his guarantee and bond that the 
cost of fifty floats for the Historical Parade on Tuesday, 
September 28th, shall not exceed $37,000, and that the cost 
of the floats for the Carnival Parade on Saturady night, 
October 2d, shall not exceed the additional sum of $250 per 
float (or $600 each for the night floats) and that Mr. Stod- 
dard be allowed 10 per cent commission on the actual cost 
of constructing the floats. 

The resolution was carried. 

Thirty-one Thousand Five Hundred Dollars Appropriated 
for Historical and Carnival Parade Co'inniittee. 

The Secretary, referring to the appropriation of $5,000 
made January 7, 1909 (page 731) for the refitting of the 
workshop and the beginning of the purchase of materials 
for floats, stated that the work of construction was now 
under full headway, and that the preliminary provision 
of January 7th should now be enlarged to meet current 
needs. He therefore moved that in addition to the $5,000 
heretofore appropriated by the resolution at the bottom of 
page 731 of the minutes, the sum of $26,500 (making a 
total of $31,500) be appropriated to the Carnival and His- 
torical Parades Committee for rental of grounds, refitting 
workshop, materials and labor for the construction of floats, 
in accordance with the estimate given on page 729 of the 
minutes, it being understood that this appropriation does 
not include Mr. Stoddard's or Mr. Wikstrom's salaries (pro- 
vided for by other resolutions) or Mr. Stoddard's commis- 
sion, which latter is payable upon the completion of the 
work. 

The resolution was adopted. 



February 24, 19C9 905 

Appointed by the Governor. 

The Secretary presented a letter from the Secretary of 
the Governor, dated February 4, 1909, communicating the 
appointment of the Hon. Andrew S. Draper, State Commis- 
sioner of Education, as a member of the Commission. 

The Secretary was instructed to place Commissioner 
Draper's name on the roll of this Commission. 

Resi(/iiafi()ii of Hon. Andrezv D. JVIiitc. 

The Secretary presented a letter from the Governor's Sec- 
retary, dated February 13, 1909, stating that " Governor 
Hughes has received the resignation of the Hon. Andrew D. 
White as a member of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission." 

While there was a unanimous sentiment of regret that 
other demands upon Dr. White have prevented his active 
participation in the work of the Commission, in which he 
had expressed the most cordial interest, it was the consen- 
sus of opinion that his wish should be acceded to. The Sec- 
retary was therefore instructed to note the resignation in 
the records. 

Appointed by the Mayor. 

The Secretary read a letter from the Executive Secretary 
of the Mayor of New York, dated February 5, 1909, com- 
municating the appointment of Mr. George W. Sweeney of 
the Hotel Victoria, and Mr. John J. Cavanagh of No. 258 
West Twenty-third street, New York City, as members of 
the Commission. 

The Secretary was requested to place their names on the 
roll of the Commission. 

Death of Mr. Julius Lchrenkrauss. 

The Acting President requested the Trustees to rise while 
he made the painful announcement of the death of Mr. 
Julius Lehrenkraus'S, which occurred in Brooklyn on Thurs- 
day, February i8th. 



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Change in Membership. 
The Acting President announced that the Hon. Eugene 
J. Hauratto, having been elected Mayor of Watervliet, 
thereby became ex-officio a member and Trustee of the Com- 
mission in place of his predecessor in office, the Hon. Daniel 
P. Quinn. 

Couimittec Changes. 
The Acting President announced the following committee 
changes :* 

Aquatic Sports : Mr. William J. McKay and Naval Con- 
structor Baxter, added. 

Art and Historical Exhibits : Mr. Archer M. Huntington, 
added to subcommittee on Historical Exhibits. 

Badges, Flag and Poster: Mr. S. V. Hoffman, added. 

Carnival and Historical Parades : Mr. Henry Fuehrer, 
Mr. Theodore Henninger, Dr. Gustav Scholer and Mr. 
Oscar R. Seitz, added. 

Executive : Hon. Andrew D. White, resigned. 

General Commemorative Exercises: Hon. Andrew S. 
Draper, added. 

Historical : Mr. Reginald P. Bolton, resigned. 

Hospitality : Mr. Louis G. Boissevain, added. 

Invitations : Hon. Andrew D. White, resigned. 

Inwood Park : Mr. Reginald P. Bolton, added. 

Lower Hudson: Mr. Theodore Fitch, Mr. Clarence E. 
Leonard and Hon. Frank V. Millard, added. 

Medal : Dr. George F. Kunz, resigned. 

Music Festival: Mr. Henry Fuehrer, Mr. Theodore Hen- 
ninger, Dr. Gustav Scholer and IVIr. Oscar R. Seitz, added. 

Naval Parade: Dr. George F. Kunz and Hon. Henry 
Smith, added. 

Patriotic Societies : ^Ir. Theodore Fitch made Chairman ; 
Dr. Geo. C. Batcheller and Mr. Clarence E. Leonard, 
added. 

Public Health and Convenience: Mr. John J. Cavanagh, 
added. 

Reception : Hon. Andrew D. White, resigned. 

Upper Hudson : Hon. Eugene J. Hauratto, Mayor of 
Watervliet, added, in place of Hon. Daniel P. Quinn, term 
expired ; and Mr. Wm. P. Adams, Hon. Arthur L. An- 

* For convenience of the Commission, certain additional committee 
changes made after the meeting of Feb. 24 are embodied in these 
minutes. 



February 24, 1909 907 

drews, Mr. Frank N. Bain, Mr. Herbert Carl, Hon. Philip 
Elting, Hon. Hamilton Fish, Hon. Chas. H. Gaus, Mr. 
Robert J. Harding, Mr. W. R. Harrison, Hon. G. D. B. 
Hasbrouck, Mr. Walter L. Hutchins, Mr. David M. Kin- 
near, Hon. Henry Kohl, Mr. Robert J. MacFarland, Hon. 
B. B. Odell, Jr., Hon. Samuel K. Phillips, Mr. John Scan- 
Ion, Hon. Geo. V. L. Spratt, Gen. W. C. S. Wiley and Mr. 
Frederick W. Wilson, added. 

Nominated for Apf'oiiitincnt on Commission 

Mr. P'itch, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, pre- 
sented a report recommending the following named gentle- 
men for appointment as members of the Commission : 

By the Governor: Mr. William P. Adams of Cohoes ; 
Hon. Arthur L. Andrews, Corporation Counsel of Albany ; 
Mr. Frank N. Bain (proprietor of Palatine Hotel and Presi- 
dent of New York State Hotel Men's Association), of New- 
burgh ; Mr. Herbert Carl, Merchant, of Kingston ; Hon. 
Chas. A. Elliott, President of the village of Catskill, whose 
term as an ex-officio member will expire this spring with 
the expiration of his term as Village President ; Hon. 
Philip Elting, Shipping Commissioner of the Port of New 
York, of Kingston ; Hon. Hamilton Fish, Assistant United 
States Treasurer at New York, of Garrison ; Hon. Charles 
H. Gaus, State Comptroller, of Albany ; Mr. Robert J. Hard- 
ing, City Engineer of Poughkeepsie ; Mr. W. R. Harrison, 
merchant, of Kingston; Hon. G. D. B. Hasbrouck, ex-Su- 
preme Court Judge of Kingston ; Mr. Walter L. Hutchins 
of Albany; Mr. David M. Kinnear of Albany; Hon. Henry 
Kohl, Corporation Counsel, of Newburgh ; Air. R. J. Mac- 
Farland, Treasurer of Knox Hat Manufacturing Co., and 
President of Deep Water Ways Commission of State of 
New York, of Chatham ; Hon. Frank V. Millard, Surrogate 
of Westchester County and President of Westchester Bar 
Association, of Tarrytown ; Hon. Benj. B. Odell, Jr., ex- 
Governor, of Newburgh; Hon. Samuel K. Phillips. ex- 
County Judge, of Matteawan ; Mr. John Scanlon of Cohoes ; 
Hon. Geo. V. L. Spratt, Corporation Counsel of Pough- 
keepsie ; Gen. W. C. S. Wiley of Catskill ; and Mr. Fred- 
erick W. Wilson, editor of the News. Newburgh. 

By the Mayor: Mr. Henry Fuehrer, President of the 
Brooklyn Arion Society, No. 569 Bushwick avenue, Brook- 
lyn ; Mr. Theodore Henninger. President of the United 
Singing Societies of Manhattan, No. 83 White street; 



9o8 Minutes of Trustees 

Dr. Gustav Scholer, President of the Arion Society, No. lo 
Jumel terrace; Mr. Oscar R. Seitz, President of the Leider- 
kranz, No. 76 WilHam street. 

In presenting this report, Mr. Fitch called the particular 
attention of the Trustees to the fact that many other names 
of distinguished gentlemen had been submitted to the Com- 
mittee by distinguished members of the Commission, but the 
Committee had felt constrained to lay them on the table. 
The Commission was now composed of about 350 members, 
which was more than sufficient to carry out the plans which 
were in contemplation, and if additions were made indef- 
initely it would become unwieldy. The Committee was 
therefore of the opinion that from this time forward, great 
care should be used in enlarging the membership, and it 
very respectfully suggested to the members of the Commis- 
sion that additions should be proposed only in exceptional 
cases. The fact that a resolution had been adopted in Jan- 
uary, authorizing the President upon the recommendation 
of the Chairmen of Committees, to designate as aides to 
the Chairmen persons who were not members of the Com- 
mission made it possible for the Commission to avail itself 
of the services of those whose help is needed. The names 
recommended to-day were, with a single exception, those 
recommended by the Mayors and the Upper Hudson Com- 
mittee, and the Nominating Committee felt that in view of 
the responsibilities of the Upper Hudson Committee their 
wishes were entitled to especial consideration. The Nom- 
inating Committee ventured to express the hope, however, 
that the Upper Hudson Committee would find that the nom- 
inations made to-day would give them a personnel large 
enough to carry out their plans. If such should not prove 
to be the case, it could avail itself of the resolution of Jan- 
uary by suggesting to the Acting President the names of 
persons whom he would be ha])])y to appoint as aides to the 
Committee. 

The report of the Nominating Committee was approved 
and the nominees recommended to the Governor and Mayor 
respectively for appointment. 



February 24, 1909 909 

Judge Parker Elected Viee-Presidcnt. 

The report of the Nominating Committee further recom- 
mended the election of the Hon. AUon B. Parker as \'ice- 
President to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the 
Hon. Andrew D. White. 

It was unanimously voted that the Secretary be instructed 
to cast a single ballot in behalf of the Trustees for Judge 
Parker; which having been done, the Acting President de- 
clared Judge Parker elected. 

Plan and Scope Report. 

In the absence of Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Chairman 
of the Plan and Scope Committee, the Assistant Secretary 
stated that at a meeting of that Committee held prior to 
the Trustees' meeting, it was voted to report favorably upon 
the recommendation of the Aeronautics Committee to ap- 
prove of the airship competition under the auspices of the 
New York World and the Aero Club of America ; also 
upon the question of officially inviting the Brooklyn Insti- 
tute of Arts and Sciences to hold a Hudson-Fulton exhibi- 
tion. He moved that the report be received and placed on 
file, leaving it to the Chairman of the Committee on Aero- 
nautics and the Chairman of the subcommittee on Historical 
Exhibits to make the appropriate motions. 

Carried. 

Aeronautic Competition Approved. 

The regular call of Committees in alphabetical order was 
then taken up. 

In the absence of the Hon. James M. Beck, Chairman of 
the Committee on Aeronautics, Mr. Berri, a member of that 
committee, presented the following report : 

The undersigned, the Committee on Aeronautics, respect- 
fully reports that after some informal discussion of the ques- 
tion, the Committee is of opinion that it would be very ap- 
propriate to include in the official program of the celebra- 
tion an exhibition of the wonderful development in the navi- 
gation of the air. 



9IO Minutes of Trustees 

The committee need not state that within the last twelve 
months an extraordinary development in aviation has taken 
place, which has excited the wonder and admiration of the 
world, and it is especially gratifying to know that the coun- 
try of Robert Fulton has given to the world the inventors 
who, beyond all others, have demonstrated the possibilities 
of propelling a machine through the air without the use of 
gas. That a public demonstration of this wonderful ad- 
vance in aeronautics should be had in connection with the 
Hudson-Fulton celebration seems to us most appropriate. 
The Hudson celebration will recall the days of the sailing 
vessel. The Fulton centennial will commemorate the stu- 
pendous advance which was made when steam was utilized 
for water transportation. If to these conquests over na- 
ture shall now be added the most wonderful of all — the 
conquest of the air — the celebration will be of extraor- 
dinary interest. 

The problem which your Committee has found most dif- 
ficult is that of expense, for vmless more liberal appropria- 
tions are made to the Commission, we assume that it may 
not have the ability to make the appropriations necessary 
for the purpose of encouraging an imposing exhibition of 
airships of all kinds and a possible contest in their relative 
speed. To some extent this difliculty has been met by the 
enterprising offer which one of the leading newspapers of 
New York has made, to which more detailed reference is 
made in the letter hereto appended, from Cortlandt F. 
Bishop, President of the Aero Club of America. 

Your Committee commends the public spirit of the New 
York World and recommends that the Hudson-Fulton Com- 
mis.sion accede to the request of the Aero Club of America 
to include this extraordinary contest in the program of the 
celebration. In doing so, however, we recommend that the 
Commission likewise give its official sanction to any other 
dignified and worthy effort in the matter of aeronautics and 
cordially invite the co-operation of all aeronautic and scien- 
tific societies to make the demonstration of the airship im- 
posing and complete. 

Your Committee therefore recommends that the matter 
be referred back to your Committee, with the approval by 
the Commission of its recommendations and with instruc- 
tions to co-operate with the Aero Club of America and with 
any other Aeronautic Society in New York, to the end that 



February 24, 1909 911 

the contest made possible through the pubHc spirit of the 
New York World and any other contest of the same char- 
acter, may be included in the official program of the cele- 
bration. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

James M. Beck, Chairman. 
Theodore P. Gilman, 
Peter Cooper Hewitt, 
William Berri. 

Mr. Berri moved that the Aero Club have the sanction of 
the Commission in conducting the competition referred to 
in the report and that it be placed on the programme as a 
part of the Celebration. 

Carried. 

One Thousand Dollars Appropriated for Zoological Exhibit. 

Dr. Kunz, Chairman of the sub-committee on Historical 
Exhibits of the Committee on Art and Historical Exhibits, 
reported that under date of February 9th, he had received 
a letter from Dr. W. T. Hornaday, Director of the New 
York Zoological Park under the management of the New 
York Zoological Society, in part as follows: 

" I have carefully considered your suggestion in regard 
to a special number of the Zoological Society Bulletin, set- 
ting forth as far as possible the wild life of the Hudson 
Valley at the time of Hudson's discovery. I think it would 
be entirely practicable, and in fact of considerable benefit 
to the event, to prepare a special, double number of the 
Bulletin, and illustrate it freely to cover the subject men- 
tioned above. At a total cost of $1,000 we can prepare, il- 
lustrate and print an edition of 5,000 copies, and I could 
promise that the document would do credit to the occasion. 
Of these we would of course be glad to place any nmnber 
at your disposal, and utilize the remainder in whatever ways 
might seem best for the good of the celebration as a whole 
— subject to the direction of your Committee. Incidentally, 
we would be glad of an opportunity to demonstrate to the 
people of the United States the fact that the private individ- 
uals and taxpayers of New York city, working together in 
perfect harmony but without the slightest aid from cither 
state or nation, have built up here a national institution. 



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which is already the greatest of its kind in the world — and 
which is free to the world." 

It was voted that $i,ooo be appropriated for the Zoologi- 
cal catalogue as outlined in Dr. Hornaday's letter. 

One TJwusand Dollars Appropriated for Botanical Exhibit. 
Dr. Kunz reported that under date of February 5th, he 
had received a letter from Dr. N. L. Britton, Director of 
the New York Botanical Garden, outlining the following 
scheme for a Hudson-Fulton botanical catalogue : 

T. The preparation of a pamphlet descriptive of the 
native trees of the Hudson River Valley illustrated by pho- 
tographs and otherwise, written entirely in untechnical ■ 
language. 

2. Native trees of the Hudson River Valley growing 
within the New York Botanical Garden to be labeled with 
a letter " H." 

3. The proposed descriptive list of trees to be prefaced by 
a short guide to the Botanical Garden illustrated photo- 
graphically. 

We can issue the pamphlet with the authority of the New 
York Botanical Garden. 

I estimate that the entire expense of this work, including 
the production of at least 5,000 copies of the document, 
v/ouid not be greater than $1,000. I do not have funds 
available for this purpose, but if they can be secured, we 
will take the work up at once and plan to issue the docu- 
ment in September. 

It was voted that $1,000 be appropriated for the botanical 
catalogue in accordance with the plan outlined. 

One TJwusand Dollars for Brooklyn Institute Exhibit. 

Dr. Kunz reported that under date of February 24th, 
Dr. Frederick A. Lucas, Curator-in-Chief of the Museum 
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, had written 
expressing the readiness of the Institute, through its mu- 
seums, to participate in the Hudson-Fulton celebration. The 
letter continues : 

" It would, for this purpose, need an appropriation for 
the work of developing the collections and publishing the 
Bulletin, as noted by you. The Central Museum has a 



February 24, 1909 913 

room devoted to the animals of Long- Island, but we would 
especially desire to extend the collection of stone imple- 
ments from Long' Island, known as the Tooker Collection, 
by adding such material as may be obtained from the more 
recent Indians of this vicinity. In this way it would be 
possible to illustrate the aboriginal population of this vicin- 
ity in the time of Hudson. The Children's Museum has a 
series of small groups illustrating various phases in the set- 
tement of the United States and especially of this vicinity. 
It has as well numerous engravings of historic houses and 
places. This collection would be extended if an appropri- 
ation were available for that purpose. The collections with 
some illustrations could be published in such a manner as 
you may suggest to form an extra issue of the Museum 
News for August. Ordinarily there would be no issue of 
the News until October. The extra number would refer to 
the collections in both Museums and would be of such size 
as the Committee in charge of publications may deter- 
mine upon." 

It was voted that $1,000 be appropriated for the Hudson- 
Fulton cataloGfue of the Institute. 



Cohinihia University's Co-operation. 

Dr. Kunz reported that under date of February 23d, he 
had received from Dr. Frederick A. Goetze, Dean of Colum- 
bia University, a letter reading as follows : 

" I have spoken to our Dr. Simkovitch about the desira- 
bility of our having an exhibition of Hudson and Fulton 
memorabilia in our library during the period of the cele- 
bration in September and he will be very glad to do what 
he can in this matter. Judg"ing from the good work which 
he has been able to do in the past I am sure that he will 
have a very creditable exhibit. 

" President Butler has asked me to tell you that the Uni- 
versity will be very glad to place our boathouse at One 
Hundred and Sixteenth street and North river at the dis- 
posal of the officers of the men-of-war, which may be sta- 
tioned in the Hudson river during the time of the celebration. 

"If we can secure the necessary funds, we will be glad 
to give a reception or smoker to the naval officers on our 
campus similar to that which we tendered to the members 
of the International Zoological Congress, which I believe 
you attended and which was a A'ery delightful affair. 



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" We shall also be very glad to have our Engineering 
Schools represented by a float in the civic parade if we can 
find some way of meeting the expense and we shall be glad 
to help in any way that we can toward making the memorial 
celebration which your committee has in hands a great 
success." 

Dr. Kunz suggested the propriety of voting $1,000 for 
the Columbia exhibition catalogue. 

Mr. McKay called attention to the rapidity with which 
money was being voted and asked where it was to come 
from. 

Mr. Hoffman expressed some apprehension that the 
Columbia exhibition might be so nearly of the character of 
that contemplated by the New York Historical Society as 
to interfere with the latter. 

It was therefore decided to defer action until Dr. Kunz 
and Mr. Hoffman could confer on the subject. 

It was voted that the tender of the use of the Columbia 
boathouse be accepted with very sincere thanks and that the 
use of it be referred to the Naval Parade Committee with 
power. 

The oft'er concerning a reception and smoker on the 
campus was referred to the Plan and Scope Committee. 

The suggestion concerning a float was referred to the 
Carnival and Historical Parades Committee. 

Exhibition at National Arts Club. 
Dr. Kunz also reported that the National Arts Club, the 
Municipal Art Society and the American Scenic and His- 
toric Preservation Society were arranging for an exhibition 
at the National Arts Club for which they asked no appro- 
priation from this Commission. 

Aquatic Sports September 2(jth and October 2d. 

Capt. Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Aquatic 

Sports, reported the liveliest public interest in this subject. 

His committee had already received offers from 50 or more 

different associations oft'ering to take part in the compcti- 



February 24, 1909 915 

tions, and the question now was how to hmit the participa- 
tion. In making arrangements for these water sports the 
committee felt hampered by the fact that only one day — 
Wednesday, September 29th — had been designated for this 
feature of the celebration. The committee really needed 
three days for preliminary trials and three days in which 
to run off the events. The chainnan thought that it was 
not necessary for the Commission to take official cognizance 
of the preliminary trials in its programme and they could be 
arranged for as most convenient to the participants. The 
three groups of final events could be consolidated into two 
days by having two groups on the same day. It was therefore 
proposed to have two of the groups on Wednesday, Sep- 
tember 29th — one off Riverside Park, between Ninety-sev- 
enth and One Hundred and Twentieth streets, and the other 
for large motor boats opposite the city of Yonkers ; and the 
third group at Newburgh on Saturday, October 2d. Those 
competitions would embrace eleven types of races, and in- 
clude everything from canoes up to high power motors. 
Capt. Miller asked authority to have aquatic sports on the 
two days named, and that an appropriation of $15,000 be 
made to the Committee on Aquatic Sports. 

After some general discussion Capt. Miller moved that 
Si, 000 be now appropriated for the committee. 

Carried. 

Mr. Stetson moved that the other recommendations of 
the committee, including an appropriation of $14,000 addi- 
tional, be referred to the Plan and Scope Committee with 
power. 

Carried. 

Mr. Seligman made the facetious suggestion that the 
Aquatic Sports Committee arrange for a race between the 
Half Moon and Clermont, which Capt. Miller said his com- 
mittee would take under careful consideration. 

i 

Appropriation for Auditing Accounts. 
Mr. Phillips, Chairman of the Auditing Committee, said 
that the financial transactions of the Commission were now 



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so extensive that the Auditing Committee needed the as- 
sistance of a regular auditing company to assist it in keep- 
ing proper control of accounts. He therefore moved that 
the committee be authorized to retain the services of an 
auditing company at an expense not to exceed $io a day for 
the time actually employed. 
Carried. 

Fiz'c Hundred Dollars Appropriated for Badge Designs and 

Dies. 

Air. Jacacci, Chairman of the Committee on Badges, Flag 
and Poster, reported progress in regard to the preparation 
of the flag. He said that if the Secretary could get from 
the different committees an idea of the number of flags re- 
quired, his committee would be able to secure closer 
estimates. 

He stated that Mr. Edwin H. Blashfield had been en- 
gaged to design the poster and the work was well advanced. 

The committee recommended that the official badge be 
made according to a truly beautiful design by one of our 
best sculptors, and he moved that $500 be appropriated — 
$300 for the plaster model and $200 to be used if needed 
for the reduction and dies of the model. 

The motion was carried. 

Mr. Jacacci requested that the Chairman of the Historical 
Committee, Mr. Hoffman, be added to his committee, and 
the Acting President appointed him as requested. 

Official Banquet. 
Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Banquet Committee, re- 
ferred to the enlargement of tlie committee by the addition 
of Mr. Creighton and Mr. Ely, and said that he would have 
a meeting of the committee at the Hotel Astor on Monday, 
March 8th, at 3.30 p. m. He said that the committee would 
have to refer to the Trustees the solution of two questions — 
one being that of cost and the other that of having ladies 
present. He said that the new banquet hall of the Hotel Astor 
would seat 2,100 guests. His idea was that a high price 
should be charged, not only in order that the banquet might 



February 24, 1909 917 

be of the best possible character, but also that the dinner 
favors might be some worthy and dignified souvenir like 
the official medal. He also favored having ladies, as he 
believed they would add grace and brilliancy to the afifair. 

In the informal discussion which followed the speakers 
all accorded very heartily with the ideas expressed by 
Mr. Stetson. 

Carnival and Historical Parades. 

Mr. Ridder, Chairman of the Carnival and Historical 
Parades Committee, reported that the preparations for the 
parades were progressing rapidly. Twenty historical floats 
were in course of construction, ten being nearly finished ; 
and the designs for twenty more had been approved. On 
Sunday, the representatives of 600 German societies had 
met to arrange for participation in the Carnival Parade, 
which promised to be very beautiful. The historical floats 
for Tuesday were being assigned to the historical societies 
but it was feared that there might not be enough of the 
strictly patriotic and historical societies to take charge of 
them all. The editors of the Italian papers and all other 
nationalities would be invited to co-operate in furnishing 
the personnel of the parades and it was expected that they 
would be very impressive. There was a strong probability 
that it might prove desirable to have the Historical Parade 
of Tuesday repeated in Brooklyn Friday, and the Car- 
nival Parade repeated in Brooklyn some night the following 
week. 

Tzvo Thousand Dollars Appropriated for Children's 
Festivals. 
Mr. Samuel Parsons reported that the work of the Chil- 
dren's Festivals Committee was advancing. His committee 
was in close co-operation with President Schurman's Com- 
mittee on General Commemorative Exercises and they 
would work together as far as possible so as not to dupli- 
cate their efforts. The committee expected to secure the 
services of men of great experience in school affairs and 
in handling large bodies of children. It had also addressed 



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a letter to Hon. Wm. H. Maxwell, Superintendent of 
Schools of New York City, asking him to co-operate. No 
one in the city could help more than Superintendent Max- 
well. Mr. Parsons moved that $2,000 be appropriated to 
the use of the Children's Festivals Committee in addition 
to the $1,000 appropriated January 7, 1909 (page 7^,^,). 
This would give his committee $3,000, while the Committee 
on General Commemorative Exercises had $3,500, and they 
would work together and spend only what was necessary. 

After some discission the motion was adopted. 

Mr. Parsons also moved that a formal letter be sent from 
the Commission to Superintendent Maxwell inviting his co- 
operation. 

Carried. 

One Hundred Dollars Appropriated to Coniiiiittcc on 
Dedications. 

Judge Higley, Chairman of the Committee on Dedica- 
tions, reported that the committee had received one formal 
application for a dedication in connection with the celebra- 
tion, namely, from the Daughters of the Revolution of the 
State of New York. The committee had approved of their 
request that the dedication of their memorial arch at Stony 
Point Battlefield should be included in the celebration. It 
was understood that their programme should be submitted 
for approval. Judge Higley inquired whether it would not 
be well to require in cases like this that the inscription on 
the monument should contain some statement directly con- 
necting the dedication with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 
but after a brief discussion, no conclusion was reached. 

The report was accepted, and on motion of Judge Hig- 
ley $100 was appropriated for the expenses of the committee. 

General Couinienwrative Exercises. 
In the absence of President Schurman the Secretary re- 
ported that the Committee on General Commemorative Ex- 
ercises was actively at work. Under its direction the As- 
sistant Secretary had prepared a pamphlet containing an 
historical sketch of Hudson and Fulton and suggestions to 



February 24, 1909 919 

aid the holding- of general commemorative exercises and 
children's festivals throughout the State. The manuscript 
of this pamphlet had been approved by President Schur- 
man, and after being printed in uniform style with the 
minutes of the Commission (see pp. 795-869) would be re- 
printed as a separate pamphlet not only for the special 
work of the Committees on General Commemorative Exer- 
cises and Children's Festivals, but also for the general use 
of the Commission. The Secretary concurred in the opin- 
ion that had been expressed by President Schurman con- 
cerning the historical and educational value of this pamphlet. 

Historical Revision. 

Mr. Hoffman, Chairman of the Historical Committee, re- 
ported that his committee had approved about forty designs 
for floats, twenty of which were in course of construction. 

The committee had also approved of the above-mentioned 
historical manuscript prepared by the Assistant Secretary 
for the Committee on General Commemorative Exercises. 

Illiiiuiiiatioiis. 

Mr. Berri. Chairman of the Committee on Illuminations, 
reported that an effort was being made to secure an appro- 
priation of $25,000 from Congress for illuminations and 
pyrotechnics at the forts around New York harbor. 

Mr. Stetson said that Senator Depew had exercised his 
good offices with Senator Hale, the chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Naval Affairs, but was doubtful if the appropria- 
tion would be granted. 

Invitations. 

]\Ir. Choate, Chairman of the Committee on Invitations, 
stated for the encouragement of the Commission that the 
Lincoln Centennial Commission had just held a meeting, 
and, after paying all bills, had a slight balance left in the 
treasury. 

With reference to the extension of invitations to foreign 
governments, assurance had been received from the State 
Department that the Department would transmit the Com- 



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mission's invitations through the diplomatic representatives 
of the United States abroad with an expression of the hope 
that the foreign governments would find it both agreeable 
and convenient to accept. 

Iinvood Hill Park. 
Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman of the Inwood Hill Park 
Committee, reported that he had visited the hill with Park 
Commissioner Henry Smith and some others and that the 
Commissioner seemed to be favorably impressed. It was 
understood that Commissioner Smith, to whom the Mayor 
had referred the subject, would report his views to the 
Mayor. 

Memorials. 

Mr. Bergen, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
reported that the editorial work on the souvenir book was 
well under way. 

Mr. Trask suggested that all publications issued under 
the auspices of the Commission be made of uniform size 
as far as possible, so that they might readily be bound 
together. 

The question concerning the financing of the book was 
discussed, but no formal action taken. 

Mr. Bergen also presented the preliminary design for the 
memorial tablet to be erected at Fort Tryon through the 
generosity of Mr. C. K. G. Billings and the active personal 
co-operation of Mr. William C. Muschenheim. It repre- 
sented a bronze tablet, about ten feet high, to be set into 
the vertical face of the living rock at Fort Tryon on Fort 
Washington avenue, about three-quarters of a mile north 
of Fort Washington. Mr. Bergen said that he was sure 
he reflected the sentiment of all the Trustees in expressing 
gratification at Mr. Billings' public spirit in providing for 
the erection of this very interesting landmark. 

He also reported encouraging progress with the arrange- 
ments for the Hudson monument on Spuyten Duyvil Hill, 
designs for which had already been prepared. The site for 
this monument stood just 300 feet above the river — a fig- 
ure remarkably significant in connection with the Three 



February 24, 1909 921 

Hundredth Anniversary of Hudson's voyag^e : and the mon- 
ument itself would be 100 feet high, which might be re- 
garded as symbolical of the Fulton centenary. 

Music Fcstk'ds. 
In the absence of Mr. Lindenthal. the Acting President 
reported that the singing societies were very deeply inter- 
ested in the music festivals and would do everything to 
make them a brilliant success. 

Dimensions of Clermont Determined. 
Captain Miller, \'ice-Chairman and Acting Chairman of 
the Naval Parade Committee, presented a brief verbal re- 
port concerning the committee's further investigation of 
the dimensions of the original Clermont, and filed with the 
Secretary additional data with which the following minutes 
are amplified. Captain ■Miller stated that, after Admiral 
Coghlan's death, the valuable work done by the Naval 
Parade Committee on this subject under the Admiral's 
direction had been followed up by further investigations 
which had enabled the committee to arrive with certainty 
at the dimensions of the Clermont as she appeared on her 
maiden voyage. For this happy result the committee were 
very largely indebted to Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Chairman of 
the Clermont Committee, and to ]\Ir. Frank E. Kirby and 
Mr. J. W. Millard. At a meeting of the Naval Parade 
Comanittee, held February 19th, at the Chairman's office, 
at which, in addition to the gentlemen named, were present 
Naval Constructor W. J. Baxter, U. S. N., and Mr. Steven- 
son Taylor, Mr. Millard made the following statement : 

" Mr. Kirby and I investigated all the various authorities 
we could find and found their statements of the dimensions 
of the Clermont so conflicting that we decided to go back if 
possible to Fulton's own letters, disregarding everything 
else. We found that Fulton had made a statement* which is 



* This statement is taken from Fulton's specifications upon which 
he obtained his second patent of October 2. 1810, and is found in 
" A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation " by 
Prof. Ecnnet Woodcroft. a distinguished authority' on patents, 
printed in London in 1848. 



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published in the Nautical Gazette. August 22, 1907, in which 
Fulton says : 

" My first steamboat oiv the Hudson's River was 150 ft. long, 
13 ft. wide, drawing 2 ft. of water, bow and stern 60 degrees; she 
displaced 36.40 cubic ft., equal 100 tons of water ; her bow presented 
26 ft. to the water, plus and minus resistencc of i ft. ; running 
4 miles an hour. 

12.37 lbs. multiplied by 26, the bow of the boat 321 lbs. 

Friction on 2,380 superficial ft. of bottom and sides, at 

7.50 lbs. for 50 superficial ft 352 

Total resistence of the boat, running 4 miles an hour.. 673 
A like oower for the propellers 673 

Total power felt at the propellers 1,346 

The boat running 4 miles an hour is 6 ft. a second; this 
is three times faster than the piston, hence multiplied 
by 3 

Necessary power of the engine, the piston running 2 ft. 

a secoiid 4.038 lbs." 

It will 'be noticed that Fulton says his first boat was 150 
feet long and 13 feet wide, drawing 2 feet of water. From 
this he works out his displacement and the wetted surface 
and resistance, and it will be noted that all his results cor- 
respond with a boat 150 feet long, 13 feet beam. There 
is also no doubt that this calculation refers to the first boat 
for from the figures Fulton determined the size of his en- 
gine. We also know that it cannot refer to the boat as 
later changed because we know from her official papers is- 
sued after she was enlarged that she was then 18 feet wide 
and no other figures except 150 feet long and 13 feet wide 
would give the results in Fulton's calculations. 

On the 29th of August 1807, Fulton wrote a letter to 
Chancellor Livingston, as follows : 

" New York, Saturday, 

" The 29th of August, 1807. 
"Dear Sir. — On Saturday I wrote you that I arrived here on 
Friday at 4 o'clock, which made my voyage from Albanj? exactly 
thirty hours. We had a little wind on Friday morning, but no 
waves which produced an effect. I have been making every exer- 
tion to get off on Mondav morning, but there has been much work 
to do, boarding all the sides, decking over the boiler works, finish- 
ing each cabin with twelve berths, to make them comfortable, and 
strenglitening many parts of the iron works. So much to do and 
the rain, which delays the caulkers, will, I fear, not let me off till 
Wednesday morning. Then, however, the boat wfll be as complete 
as she can be made, all strong and in good order, and the men well 
organized, and I hope nothing to do but run her for six weeks or 
two months. The first week, that is if she starts on Wednesday, 
she will make one trip to Albany and back ; every succeeding week 



February 24, 1909 923 

she will run three trips, that is, two to Albany and one to New 
York, or two to New York and one to Albany, always having Sun- 
day and four nights for rest to the crew. 

" By carrying for the usual price there can be no doubt but the 
steamboat will have the preference because of the certainty and 
agreeable movement. I have seen the Captain of the fine sloop 
from Hudson. He says the average of his passages have been forty- 
eight hours. For the steamboat it would have been thirty certain. 
The persons who came down with me were so much pleased that 
they said were she establshcd to run periodically they would never 
go in anything else. 1 will have her registered and 'everything 
dome which I can recollect. Everything looks wells, and I have no 
doubt it will be very productive. 

Yours truly, 

ROBERT FULTON. 

" To Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Clermont, N. Y." 

It will be noted that in this letter Fulton says : " I will 
have her rei^istered and everything done which I can recol- 
lect." This shows that the Clermont was not registered on 
her first trip, but Fulton said he would have her registered 
presumably before he started on the next trip. 

The next step in the story is the enrollment of the Cler- 
mont which is on file in the New York Custom House. It 
reads : 

" No. io8. Enrollment in conformity to an Act of Con^^ress of 
the United States of America entitled 'A.n act for enrolhn'g and 
licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and 
fisheries, and for regulating the same. 

" Robert R. Livingston, of Clermont, 
" Columbia County, State of New York. 
" having taken and subscribed to the oath required by the said Act 
and having sworn that he, together with Robert Fulton of the City 
of New York, are citizens of the United States, and sole owners 
of the ship or vessel called the North River Steamboat of Cler- 
mont, whereof Samuel Wiswall is at present master, and as he 
hath sworn he is a citizen of the United States, and that the said 
ship or vessel was built in the City of New York, in the year 1807, 
as per enrollment 173 issued at this port on the .3rd. And Peter 
A. Schcnck, Surveyor of llie Port, having certified that day of 
Sep'. ember 1807, now given up, the vessel being enlarged, the said 
ship or vessel has one deck, and two masts, and that her length 
is 149 ft.; breadth 17 ft. 11 in. depth 7 ft. and that she measures 
182 48-95 tons. That she is a square-sterned boat, has square tuck; 
no quarter galleries and no figurehead. Hands and Seals May 14, 
i8o8." 

It will be noted that in this enrollment it says that a pre- 
vious enrollment. Xo. 173, issued in New York on Sep- 
tember 3, 1807, is now given up showing that Fulton did 
register the boat within five days after his letter to Chan- 
cellor Livingston in which he said he was going to do it. 



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It further says that the boat was 149 feet long, 17 feet ii 
inches breadth, the vessel being enlarged. We note here 
that it does not speak of the vessel being lengthened but 
enlarged, which we understand to mean that she was 
widened and had a poop deck and other work put on her. 
This widening was a natural thing to do. a boat 150 feet 
long and 13 feet wide would not be stiff enough for the 
work, and as we shall show by a later letter from Fulton 
he found" it out. In Fulton's statement first quoted- he says 
his boat was 150 feet long; the official papers make her 149 
feet long. This slight difference in length is owing to the 
fact that the Custom House measurement of length in those 
days was from the foreside of the stem to the after side of 
the stern post at the upper deck. Undoubtedly the Cler- 
mont had a rake to both bow and stern because all of the 
designs of Fulton's boats with which we are acquainted 
shows such raking, and if we carry up this rake through 
the height of the rail it will make the boat 150 feet long 
over all, which is where Fulton probably measured. 

Fulton wrote a letter to Robert R. Livingston on No- 
vember 20, 1807, an extract from which I will now read:* 

" It is now necessary to consider how to put our first boat in 
a complete state for 8 or to years- — and when I reflect that the 
present one is so weak that she must have additional knees and 
timbers, new side timbers deck beams and deck, new windows and 
cabins altered, that she perhaps must be sheathed, her boiler taken 
out and a new one put in her axels forged and Iron work strength- 
ened with all this work the saving of the present hull is of little 
consequence particularly as many of her Knee Bolts timbers and 
planks could enter into the construction of a new boat, my pres- 
ent opinion therefore is that we should build a new hull her knees 
and floor timbers to be of oak her bottom planks of 2 Incli oak her 
side plank two Inch oak for ^ feet high. She to be 16 feet wide 
150 feet long this will make her near twice as Stifif as at present 
and enable us to carry a much greater quantity of sail, the 4 feet 
additional ividth will require T146 lbs additional purchase at 
the engine moving 2 feet a second or 15 double strokes a minuet 
this will be gained by raising the steam 5 lb to the inch as 24 Inches 
the diameter of the cylinder gives 570 round Inches at 3 lb to the 
inch =1710 lb purchase gained to accomplish this with a good 
boiler and a commodious boat running our present speed, of a voy- 
age in 30 hours I tnink better and more productive to us than to 
gain one mile on the present boat." 

You will note that in this letter Fulton says that his boat 
as altered will be 16 feet wide. 150 feet long, and this will 
make her twice as stiff as at present. The 4 feet additional 
nndth will require, etc., etc. Here Fulton distinctly im- 



See pages 649 and 650, ante. 



February 24, 1909 925 

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plies that the change in the boat is to be in the width, the 
150 feet length remaining the same, as in his first statement; 
that " the boat will be nearly twice as stiff as at present," 
showing that the reason for making a change in the boat 
was to get more stability which was done by widening her, 
a perfectly natural and reasonable thing to do and which 
this boat undoubtedly needed. With these letters of Fulton 
and the official enrollment paper zvc reach the conclusion 
that the Chvniout as first built zcas 130 feet long, 7j feet 
beam, 7 feet depth of hold, that on her first trip she had 
her masts and sails taut no wheel enclosures and no bul- 
warks and no berths in the cabins and no covering over the 
boilers, this work being done, as Fulton says in his letter 
of August 29, 1807, after his return from the first trip. 
We conclude that the boat was so unstable, that in the win- 
ter of 1807-180S she was widened to 16 feet on the bottom 
and 18 feet at the deck, that the poop was built up and a 
number of other improvements and changes made. We are 
not interested in these latter changes as we have tried to 
design a fac-simile of the boat as she was on her first trip 
to Albany in August, 1807. 

We have decided however that it would not be advisable 
to make the boat only 13 feet wide as she really was on this 
first trip. As the Clermont will probably at times have 
a good many people on board, it will not do to take any 
chances of her not having sufficient stability, and we think 
it better to make her of the width she was eventually made, 
viz., 16 feet wide at the bottom and 18 feet wide at the 
deck. With this exception the plan as drawn is we believe 
exactly as the Clermont appeared on her first trip. 

The committee had approved of these findings and recom- 
mended that the Clermont be rebuilt according to the plans 
prepared, with an actual working engine and boiler, as nearly 
as possible like the original as she was in August, 1807, 
except for the sake of stability and safety her enlarged 
width of 16 feet on the bottom and 18 feet on deck be 
adopted instead of the original 13 feet beam. 

The report was received and unanimously adopted. 

Forty 1 Iwnsaud Dollars Appropriated for Building tJie 
Clermont. 

Capt. Miller continued his report by stating that upon 
the basis of bids obtained for the construction of the Cler- 



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mont about $40,000 would be needed for that purpose. He 
therefore moved that the sum of $40,000 be appropriated 
for the construction of the Clermont and her care until 
October. 

Mr. Choate inquired if the Clermont would have any 
value after the Celebration. 

Capt. Miller said that she would possess great historical 
and educational value for many years as an object lesson in 
the progress of steam navigation. 

Mr. Stetson seconded the motion and it was carried. 

Jurisdiction of A-m'al Parade Conunittcc Extended. 
Capt. Miller called attention to the fact that in the outline 
of duties of the Naval Parade Committee it appeared to be 
limited to the arrangements for the Naval Parade on Fri- 
day, October ist and Saturday, October 2d. He moved, 
upon recommendation of his committee, that its jurisdiction 
be extended so as to cover any other parades or ceremonies 
on the water which may be officially recognized in the future 
by the Commission. 

Carried. 

OfticiaJ Literary Exercises. 

Gen. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Official Lit- 
erary Exercises, reported that the committee had received 
several requests from women's organizations for boxes at 
the official literary exercises, and he asked the advice of 
the Trustees. 

After a general discussion it was decided that the Trus- 
tees were not prepared at present to act on the subject. 

Reception of Guests. 
Dr. Low, Chairman of the Reception Committee, reported 
his readiness to call his committee together as soon as he 
was advised who tlie guests of the Commission would be. 
Until the official guests had been invited and their replies 
had been received he believed that there was nothing for his 
committee to do. He inquired for information concerning 
the scope of the Reception Committee's duties, and in the 
sfencral discussion which ensued it was explained that it 



February 24, 1909 927 

was the duty of the Reception Committee to meet the 
official guests and extend the honors of the Commission to 
them, while it was the duty of the Hospitality Committee, 
upon request of the Reception Committee, to provide the 
necessary hotel accommodations for such guests. 

Mr. Stetson suggested the reprinting of the list of com- 
mittees and their duties, as given on pages 665-679 of the 
minutes, corrected to date, and the Secretary was requested 
to have tliis done. (See pp. 877-894, preceding.) 

Religious Scrz'iccs. 
The report of Mr. Agar, Chairman of the Committee on 
Religious Services, was read, stating that a letter had been 
prepared to be sent to the heads of all religious bodies in 
Greater New York, about 2,200 in number, requesting them 
to call the attention of their congregations to the approach- 
ing celebration, and at the time of the celebration to deliver 
addresses and hold such commemorative services as might 
be appropriate to their various forms of worship. This 
letter was now in the printers' hands and would soon be 
sent out. The committee was of the opinion that the scope 
of its work should be confined to bodies having religious 
services as their chief function. The committee recom- 
mended that the Acting President write to the various mu- 
nicipal authorities throughout the State, asking them to 
appoint local committees to arrange local religious exercises. 

Vcrplanck's Point Park. 
Mr. Pugsley, Chairman of the Committee on Verplanck's 
Point Park, reported that on February loth, the Hon. F. 
L. Young had introduced in the Assembly the following 
bill: 

AN ACT to provide for acquiring land on Verplanck's 
Point in Westchester county, for a Hudson-Fulton memo- 
rial park, and making an appropriation therefor. 

The People of the State of Nezc York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follozvs: 

Section i. The commissioners of the land office shall, on 
the recommendation of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission, a corporation duly incorporated by chapter 



928 Minutes of Trustees 

three hundred and twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hun- 
dred and six, acquire on behalf and in the name of the 
people of the state, at such price and upon such terms as 
said commissioners of the land office may deem just, not 
exceeding the amount hereinafter appropriated, title to such 
portion of the land lying on \'erplanck's Point, in the town 
of Cortlandt and in the county of Westchester, as in the 
judgment of said commissioners of the land office shall be 
most suitable for a public park or reservation, to com- 
memorate the three hundredth anniversary of the explora- 
tion of the Hudson river by Henry Hudson in sixteen hun- 
dred and nine and the one hundredth anniversary of the 
first use of steam in the navigation of said river by Rob- 
ert Fulton in eighteen hundred and seven, and to preserve 
the scenic beauty and historic landmarks of said Verplanck's 
Point. The area to be acquired by said commissioners of 
the land office shall include particularly the site of Fort 
Fayette of the revolutionary period, the site and remains 
of the shore battery, the terminal of the old King's ferry 
leading to the Stony Point battle-field state reservation at 
the foot of Broadway, being the shore fronting Henry Hud- 
son's anchorage in sixteen hundred and nine, the site of 
Washington's headquarters, and the camping-ground of the 
allied American and French troops in seventeen hundred and 
eighty-two, known as the Washington hill property. 

iij 2. After title to said land shall have been acquired as 
aforesaid the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission shall, 
during the existence of said commission, have control and 
jurisdiction of said park or reservation for the purposes 
stated in this act and in section two of chapter three hun- 
dred and twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and 
six. Upon the dissolution of said Hudson-Fulton Celebra- 
tion Commission and unless otherwise provided by the leg- 
islature, the control and jurisdiction of said park or reser- 
vation shall be given to such custodian as the commission- 
ers of the land office may determine. 

§ 3. The sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000). 
or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable by the 
treasurer out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, is hereby appropriated subject to the audit of 
the comptroller to carry out the provisions of this act, and 
the same shall be payable by the treasurer upon the war- 
rant of the comptroller on requisition of the said commis- 
sioners of the land office, or of such officer or officers as 
they mav designate for such purposes. 

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



February 24, 1909 929 

j 

Mr. Pugsley said that since the bill had been introduced 

the committee had considered the advisability of reducing 

the area to be acquired and consequently reducing the cost 

to about $20,000 or $25,000. 

JVays and Means. 
Mr. Ridder, Chairman of the Ways and Means Commit- 
tee, and Mr. Stetson, a member of the committee, reported 
progress in their efforts to secure appropriations of $300,000 
from the city of New York, and a like amount from the 
State. 

Agnatic Historical Floats. 
The Secretary laid before the Trustees Mr. Parry's sug- 
gestion for five aquatic historical floats — one to be sta- 
tioned in the river opposite Riverside Park and called a 
floating island, and four to take part in an illuminated 
marine parade at night. The plan contemplated that during 
one of the afternoons of the first week representations of 
scenes in the history of New Amsterdam should be given 
on the stationary float, showing the arrival of the Half 
Moon, Indians trading, etc., finishing with a salute by the 
warships and a display of daylight fireworks. In the 
evening it was proposed that there be a big illuminated 
parade in four divisions, comprising, first, private sea-going 
yachts; second, smaller yachts, and tugs : third, large power 
boats ; and, fourth, small power boats. While this parade 
would be forming down the river, the warships anchored 
off Riverside would signal with search lights and enliven 
the scene with band music. In the parade there would be 
a large historical float attached to each division. These, 
after arriving near the turning point, would anchor be- 
tween the battleships ; and the illuminated squadron, after 
passing in review, would anchor diudng the Historical 
Pageant on the floating island. At the finish of this part 
of the programme a fireworks display from the Squadron and 
Floats is proposed. It is estimated that 500.000 people can 
witness the Carnival without any danger of overcrowding, 
with a natural amphitheater from One Hundred and Forty- 



930 Minutes of Trustees 

sixth street clown to Ninetieth street, whilst on both banks 
of the Hudson can be seen the signal fires burning' for miles 
from the Narrows to Tarrytown. Mr. Parry estimated that 
the cost would not be great with the co-operation of the 
New "York and other yacht clubs. He thought that the boats 
would gladly volunteer, and the offer of gold and silver 
cups and medals for the best illuminated boats would arouse 
a spirit of emulation. The principal cost would be the 
bands, historical floats and fireworks and the entire cost 
should not exceed $25,000 to be expended by the committee. 
The matter was referred to the Naval Parade Committee. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



931 
Minutes of 

Lower- Hudson Committee 

March 3, 1909 

The first meeting of the Lower Hudson Committee of 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission was held at 
Manor Hall. Yonkers, N. Y., on Wednesday, March 3, 1909. 
at 2 o'clock p. m. 

Present: Hon. Xathan A. Warren, Yonkers, Chairman, 
presiding; and Hon. James P. Apgar, Peekskill ; Hon. M. 
S. Beltzhoover, Irvington ; Hon. Homer W. Boyd, Xyack ; 
Hon. John Gross, Tarrytown ; Mr. Gordon H. Peck, West 
Haverstraw ; Hon. Clarence E. Powell, Croton-on Hudson ; 
Hon. George C. Raymond, New Rochelle; Hon. Leslie 
Sutherland, Yonkers : Hon. John Wirth, North Tarrytown ; 
Hon. F. G. Zinsser, Hastings; Mr. Theodore Fitch, Yon- 
kers ; ]\Ir. Clarence E. Leonard, Yonkers, Secretary. 

Regrets were received from Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 
.of Peekskill. and Hon. Thomas Lynch of Haverstraw. Hon. 
\\\ L. Ward, of Port Chester, Hon. John E. Andrus of 
Yonkers, Hon. Benjamin Howe of jMount Vernon, Hon. 
Mncent A. Murray of Cold Spring, Hon. Thomas W. Brad- 
ley of Walden, and Hon. J. Du Pratt White of Xyack. 

On motion of Mr. Leslie Sutherland of Yonkers, seconded 
by Mr. Theodore Fitch of Yonkers, Mr. Clarence E. Leon- 
ard of Yonkers was elected Secretary of the Committee. 

Chairman X'athan A. A\'arren addressed the Committee, 
briefly stating the objects for which it had been formed, and 
its future scope of work. He stated that the Committee 
on Aquatics of which he was a member had formulated 
plans which included rowing races and motor races, ofif 
Yonkers, September 29, same day of the races oflf River- 
side Drive in X^'ew York, and the Naval Parade up the 
Hudson. 



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It was necessary for the Committee on Lower Hudson to 
make plans for a general celebration from Yonkers to 
Peekskill. during the second week whicli might be known 
as Old Home \\'eek if thought desirable. It was planned 
to utilize, if possible, some of the floats now being con- 
structed in Xew York for the Historical Parade on Tues- 
day and the Carnival Parade on Saturday evening, by a 
parade at Yonkers on Monday, then taking them through 
Hastings, Dobbs Ferry. Irvington, Tarrytown and Xorth 
Tarrytown on Tuesday, to X'yack on Wednesday, Ossin- 
ing, Croton and ^^lontrose on Thursday, ending with Peek- 
skill on Friday. 

Local celebrations would take place under charge of local 
committees. 

Mr. Theodore Fitch of Yonkers moved the appointment 
of the various sub-committees, by the chairman, represent- 
ing each village of the Lower Fludson, and such committees 
to take charge of the local celebration in which it was inter- 
ested, of which committees the Chairman of the Lower 
Hudson Committee should be the Chairman, and each com- 
mittee to contain the member of this committee represent- 
ing the specific locality, and such aides as may be required. 

This was seconded by ]\[r. Leslie Sutherland of Yonkers. 
and carried. 

Mr. Theodore Fitch moved that an Executive Committee 
of five be appointed by the Chainnan and such other com- 
mittees as he may deem advisable. This was seconded by 
Mr. James K. Apgar of Peekskill and carried. 

Mr. Theodore Fitch moved that the Treasurer of 
Yonkers be elected Treasurer of the Committee and it was 
seconded by Mr. James K. Apgar. Mr. Leslie Sutherland 
said that the Treasurer was a personal friend and deserved 
the honor, but he thought that as Yonkers had the Chairman 
and Secretary the honor should go to another place. Mr. 
Theodore Fitch recognized this fact and withdrew his mo- 



Minutes of Lower-Hudson Committee 933 

tion, and nominated Air. Cornelius A. Pugsley of Peeks- 
kill. This was seconded by Mr. James K. Apgar and car- 
ried. 

Mr. Gordon H. T'eck of West Haverstraw spoke of the 
dedication of the Arch and Gateway, which was to take 
place at Stony Point on October ist, and suggested the 
name of Mr. Thomas H. Lee to represent Stony Point in 
this Committee. 

Chairman Nathan A. Warren stated that he had received 
a letter asking that a representative should be named for 
Highland Trails, West Point and Fort Alontgomery. 

Mr. Theodore h'itch seconded the nomination of Mr. Lee 
and recommended that other villages be represented by 
aides. He also stated that the Committee on Aquatics had 
arranged that the high power motor boats should race at 
Yonkers on September 29th. 

Mr. Homer W. Lloyd of Xyack asked that the President 
of Grand View be appointed on the Committee. 

Mr. M. S. Beltzhoover of Irvington stated that Irvington 
had included the sum of $500 in their budget for celebration 
purposes, and stated that the election would be held this 
month. 

Mr. F. G. Zinsser of Hastings stated that they intended 
raising funds also. 

Air. John Gross of Tarrytown stated that their budget 
was already prepared. 

After considerable discussion as to ways and means, on 
motion of Air. AI. S. Beltzhoover seconded by Air. Gordon 
H. Peck and carried, the Chairman was instructed to find 
out from the Executive Committee of the Commission how 
large a fund would be allowed this Committee for the gen- 
eral plan of celebration, in addition to the amounts raised 
by localities for their respective use. 



934 Minutes of Lower-Hudson Committee 

Chairman Warren suggested that the Secretary of this 
Committee be appointed as Executive Aide to confer with 
each local committee and work with them, reporting to this 
Committee, in harmony with the general work of the Com- 
mission. 

Mr. Gordon H. Peck was excused. 

Mr. John Wirth of North Tarrytown stated that all the 
villages represented on this Committee were entitled to part 
of the sum allowed the Commission by the New York Legis- 
lature, and earnest representations should be made to the 
Executive Committee that a sufficiently large sum should 
be allowed by them to this Committee. 

Mr. Homer W. Boyd stated that Nyack had made plans 
for a local celebration and that Hook Mountain and South 
Mountain would be illuminated. 

Mr. F. G. Zinsser of Hastings said that the Presidents of 
the villages should make their plans and report at the next 
meeting. 

Mr. George C. Raymond of New Rochelle spoke to the 
same effect. 

Mr. Theodore Fitch moved that the Chairman be author- 
ized to call a meeting of this Committee at his discretion, 
and that five members constitute a quorum. This was 
seconded by Mr. Leslie Sutherland and carried. 

On motion duly seconded the meeting adjourned. 

Clarence E. Leonard, 
Secretary Lower Hudson Committee 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 



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Headquarters : Tribune Building, New York 
Telephones : Beekman, 3097 and 3098 



President 

Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 18 Wall Street, New York. 

Vice-Presidents 

Mr. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice-President and Acting Presi- 
dent, 182 William Street, New York. 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Gen. Horace Porter, 
Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
tlon. Seth Low, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, Mr. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

Treasurer 

Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, No. i William Street, New York. 

Secretary Assistant Secretary- 

Mr. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York. Tribune Building, New York. 

Assistants to tKe Secretary- 
Mr. George N. Moran, Mr. David T. Wells. 
Mr. John B. Creighton. 

General Executive Assistant 

Mr. William Parry. 

Captain of Pageantry- 
Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 



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Revised to April 6, 1909. 



The names of Trustees are set in italics. 

The names of t!ie Mayors of the 47 cities of the State, who are 
members of the Commission and Trustees by virtue of their office, 
are designated thus (*). 

The names of the Presidents of 38 incorporated villages along 
the Hudson river who are members of the Commission by virtue 
of their office are designated thus (t). 



Abraham Abraham. 

*Hon. James N. Adam. 

Edward D. Adams. 

Herbert Adams. 

William P. Adams. 

William A. Adriance. 

Hon. John G. Agar. 

Richard B. Aldcroftt, Jr. 

Alphonse H. Alker. 

B. Altman. 

Louis Annin Ames. 

Hon. Arthur L. Andrews. 

Hon. John E. Andrus. 

Hon. James I\. Apgar. 

Charles H. Armatage. 

*Hon. James C. Armstrong. 

Col. John Jacob Astor. 

Mrs. Anson P. Atterbury. 

Frank N. Bain. 

Geo. Wm. Ballou. 

Hon. Theodore ]\I. Banta. 

*Hon. John C. Barry. 

Col. Franklin Bartlett. 

Dr. George C Batcheller. 

Constr. Wm. J. Baxter, U.S.N. 

Dr. James C. Bayles. 

Hon. James M. Beck. 

*Hon. F. Beebe. 

August Belmont. 

tHon. M. S. Beltzhoover. 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 

Tunis G. Bergen. 

Hon. JVilliam Berri. 

Hon. John Bigelow. 

Hon. Frank S. Black. 

Hon. E. W. Bloomingdale. 

Henry L. Bogert. 

G. Louis Boissevain. 

George C. Boldt. 

Reginald Pelham Bolton. 

Hon. David A. Boody. 

Hon. A. J. Boulton. 

Hon. Thomas W. Bradley. 



Com. Herbert L. Bridgman. 

George V. Brozver. 

Dr. E. Parmly Brown. 

Hon. I\L Linn Bruce. 

Edward P. Bryan. 

tHon. Wm. P. Bugbee. 

William L. Bull. 

Cornelius F. Burns. 

tHon. Clifford Bush. 

Henry K. Bush- Brown. 

Hon. E. H. Butler. 

//oh. /. Rider Cady. 

John F. Calder. 

Hon. J. H. Callanan. 

Henry IV. Cannon. 

Herbert Carl. 

*Hon. Samuel A. Carlson. 

Andrew Carnegie. 

Gen. Hoivard Carroll. 

John J. Cavanagh. 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate. 

John Clafliix. 

Robert S. Clark. 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. 

tHon. J. H. Clarkson. 

Hon. George C. Clausen. 

Hon. A. T. Clearwater. 

Frederick J. Collier. 

E. C. Converse. 

Walter Cook. 

*Hon. Charles IV. Cool. 

Charles F. Cossum. 

Frederick Coykendall. 

Hon. John H. Coyne. 

*Hon. JV. P. Crane. 

Paul D. Cravat h. 

John B. Creighton. 

Plon. John D. Crimmins. 

Frederick R. Cruikshank. 

E. D. Cummings. 

jrilliam J. Curtis. 

Robert Fulton Cutting. 

Frederick B. Dalzell. 



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List of Members 



*Hon. Jacob H. Dealy. 

Hon. Robert W. de Forest. 

Hon. Charles de Kay. 

James de la Montanye. 

Elias S. A. de Lima. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depevv. 

Edward DeWitt. 

George G. DeWitt. 

Cleveland H. Dodge. 

Henry H. Doremus. 

*Hon. Edivard JV. Douglas. 

Dr. James Douglas. 

*Ho]i. Antliony C. Douglass. 

Hon. Andrew S. Draper. 

Hon. William Draper. 

Hon. John F. Dryden. 

Capt. Charles A. DuBois. 

tHon. John P. Diigan. 

John C. Eaiiics. 

*Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton. 

George Ehret. 

*Hon. Meyer Einstein. 

Hon. Charles A. Elliott. 

Hon. Philip Elting. 

Matthew C. Ely. 

Robert Erskine Ely. 

Hon. Smith Ely. 

John M. Emery. 

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet. 

Hon. Arthur English. 

Most. Rev. John M. Farley. 

Hon. J. Sloat Fassett. 

Barr Ferree. 

Morris P. Ferris. 

Stiiyvesant Fish. 

*Hon. Louis T. Fisk. 

Theodore Fitch. 

Winchester Fitch. 

Hon. James J. Fitzgerald. 

Frederick S. Flower. 

*Hon. Alan C. Fobes. 

*Hon. Wm. Follette. 

Thomas Pozvell Foivler. 

Austen G. Fox. 

Hon. Charles S. Francis. 

Commander W. B. Franklin. 

1'Hon. James L. Freeborn. 

Henry C. Frick. 

tHon. John Fridge. 

*Hon. C. A. Frost. 

Lieut. Com. A. B. Fry. 

Henry Fuehrer. 

Frank S. Gardner. 

Hon. Garret J. Garretson. 

Hen. Charles H. Gaus. 

Hen. Theodore P. Gilman. 

Robert Walton Goelet. 



Dr. Elgin R. L. Gould. 

George J. Gould. 

Maj.-Gen. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. 

Capt. Richard H. Greene. 

George F. Gregory. 

Henry E. Gregory. 

Hon. John W. Griggs. 

Wallace P. Groom. 

tHon. John Gross. 

Hon. Edward M. Grout. 

Abner S. Haight. 

Edivard Hagaman Hall. 

Benjamin F. Hamilton. 

*Hon. M. D. Hanson. 

Robert J. Harding. 

Edward H. Harriman. 

W. R. Harrison. 

Hon. Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck. 

*Hon. Eugene J. Hauratto. 

Arthur H. Hearn. 

George A. Hearn. 

Chas. E. Heitman. 

Theodore Flenninger. 

Peter Cooper Hewitt. 

tHon. C. W. Higley. 

Hon. Warren Higley. 

Hon. David B. Hill. 

James J. Hill. 

Thos. J. Hillery. 

Hon. iVlichael H. Hirschberg. 

Samuel Vcrplanck Hoffman. 

James P. Holland. 

Willis Holly. 

William Homan. 

William C. Hope. 

*Hon. Randolph Horton. 

*Hon. Benjamin Hozve. 

Hon. Henry E. Howland. 

Colgate Hovt. 

Dr. LeRoy W. Hubbard. 

Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. 

Hon. Henry Hudson. 

Walter G. Hudson. 

tHon. John L. Hughes. 

*FIon. Fra)ic!S M. Hugo. 

William T. Hunt. 

Archer M. Huntington. 

T. D. Huntting. 

Walter L. Hutchins. 

August F. Jaccaci. 

Harry B. James. 

Col. William Jay. 

Henry L. Joyce. 

tHon. Roswell S. Judson. 

Carl W. Jungen. 

tHon. Irving J. Justus. 

Jacob Katz. 



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James Kerney. 
*Hoik Albert Kessinger. 
Gen. Horatio C. King. 
David M. Kinnear. 
Albert E. Kleinert. 
*Hon. C. Atigust Koenig. 
Hon. Henry Kohl. 
Dr. George F. Kims. 
John LaFarge. 
Charles R. Lamb. 
Frederick S. Lamb. 
*Hon. Robert Lawrence. 
Homer Lee. 
Charles W. Lefler. 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger. 
Clarence E. Leonard. 
Abraham Levy. 
Hon. Clarence Lexow. 
Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. 
Herman Livingston. 
Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury. 
Hon. Seth Loiv. 
R. Fulton Ludlow. 
tHon. Thomas Lynch. 
Col. Arthur Mac Arthur. 
Robert J. MacFarland. 
*Hon. W. H. Mandeville. 
*Hon. Elias P. Mamt. 
William A. Marble. 
Pierre H. Marshall. 
tHon. Wm. S. Massoneau. 
George E. Matthews. 
Hon. William McCarroll. 
*Hon. George B. McClellan. 
*Hon. Benjamin McClung. 
Gen. Anson G. McCook. 
Col. John J. McCook. 
Donald McDonald. 
tHon. Charles McElroy. 
Hon. Patrick F. McGowan. 
William I. McKay. 
John J. McKelvey. 
Hon. St. Clair McKelway. 
tHon. John McLindon. 
*Hon. Thomas A. McNamara. 
Rear Admiral George W. Mel- 
ville, U. S. N. 
Hon. John G. Milburn. 
Hon. Frank V. Millard. 
Capf. Jacob W. Miller. 
Hon. Warner Miller. 
Frank D. Millet. 
Brig.-Gen. A. L. Mills, U.S.A. 
Ogden Mills. 

*JIoii. George H. Minard. 
*Hon. W. B. Mooers. 
Eugene F. Moran. 



/. Picrpont Morgan. 

Hon. Fordham Morris. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

Hon. Franklin Murphy. 

William C. Muschenheim. 

tHon. W. H. Myers. 

Nathan Newman. 

tHon. Frank Nichols. 

Henry O. Nickerson. 

Charles H. Niehaus. 

Ludwig Nissen. 

Hon. Lewis Nixon. 

Charles R. Norman. 

George L. Norton. 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien. 

Hon. Benj. B. Odell, Jr. 

William R. O'Donovan. 

Eben E. Olcott. 

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

William Church Osborn. 

Percy B. O' Sullivan. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Orrel A. Parker. 

John E. Parson^s. 

Hon. Samuel Parsons. 

Samuel H. Parsons. 

Dr. Edward L. Partridge. 

tHon. A. M. Patrick. 

Commander R. E. Pearj', U.S.N. 

Bayard L. Peck. 

Gordon H. Peck. 

John W. Penny. 

Hon. George W. Perkins. 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

Hon. Samuel K. Phillips. 

tHon. Wm. H. Phipps. 

Wm. H. Pleasants. 

George A. Plimpton. 

Walter B. Pollock. 

Dr. Eugene H. Porter. 

Gen. Horace Porter. 

tHon. E. L. Post. 

tHon. Clarence E. Powell. 

*Hon. Richard M. Prangen. 

Hon. John D. Prince. 

Hon. Thomas R. Proctor. 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley. 

*Hon. Edzvard Quirk. 

Louis C. Raegener. 

John PL Ramsay. 

*Hon. George G. Raymond. 

Herman Ridder. 

tHon. John Riordan. 

Edward Robinson. 

William Rockefeller. 

*Hon. W. J. Rockefeller. 

Ma j. -Gen. Charles F. Roe. 



940 



List of Members 



Carl J. Roehr. 

Louis T. Romaine. 

*Hon. Arthur P. Rose. 

tHon. Louis Rosenkranz. 

tHon. A. Rowe. 

Thomas F. Rvan. 

Col. Henry IV. Sackett. 

*Hon. John K. Sague. 

Col. William Cary Sanger. 

*Hon. A. B. Santry. 

George Henry Sargent. 

Col. Herbert L. Satterlee. 

John Scanlon. 

Charles A. Schermerhorn. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren. 

Jacob H. Schiflf. 

Dr. Gustav Scholer. 

Pres. Jacob Gould Schurman. 

Gustav H. Sclnvab. 

Hon. Townsend Scudder. 

Wallace M. Scudder. 

Oscar R. Seitz. 

Isaac N. Seligman. 

Louis Seligsberg. 

Hon. Frederick IV. Seward. 

William N. Shannon. 

*Hoi}. Daniel Shcehan. 

Hon. William F. Sheehan. 

Hon. Edward M. Shepard. 

Hon. Theodore H. Silkman. 

/. Edivard Simmons. 

John W. Simpson. 

John J. Sinclair. 

*Hon. C. M. Slauson. 

Hon. Henry Smith. 

tllon. Isaac H. Smith. 

*Hon. John. Iv. S)nifh. 

Prof. John C. Smock. 

Clarence T. Snyder. 

*Hon. Henry F. Snyder. 

William Sohnier. 

Nelson S. Spencer. 

James Speyer. 

Hon. Allen N. Spooner. 

Hon. George V. L. Spratt. 

Isaac Stern. 

Hon. Louis Stern. 

Francis Lynde Stetson. 

Louis Stewart. 

James Stillman. 

Henry L. Stoddard. 

Hon. Edward C. Stokes. 

tHon. Chas. E. Storms. 

Hon. Oscar S. Straus. 

tHon. F. Herbert Sutherland. 

George R. Sutherland. 

Hon. Leslie Sutherland. 



Hon. Theodore Sutro. 

*Hon. H. B. Sivartzvout. 

George W. Sweeney. 

Stevenson Taylor. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson. 

Henry R. Towne. 

Irving Townsend, M. D. 

Spencer Trask. 

Peter H. Troy. 

tHon. Arthur C. Tucker. 

C. Y. Turner. 

tHon. Albert W. Twiggar. 

Albert Ulmann. 

Lieut. Com. Aaron Vanderbilt. 

Alfred G. Vanderbilt. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. 

Warner Van Norden. 

William B. Van Rensselaer. 

*Hon. Horace S. Van Voast. 

John R. Van Womier. 

J. Leonard Varick. 

William G. Ver Planck. 

Hon. Foster M. Voorhees. 

Hon. E. B. Vreeland. 

Col. John W. Vrooman. 

Hon. Charles G. F. Wahle. 

Henry B. Walker. 

Capt. Aaron Ward, U. S. N. 

Dr. Samuel B. Ward. 

Hon. W. L. Ward. 
*Hon. Nathan A. Warren. 
tHon. Anthony J. Weaver. 
tHon. J. Fred Wehmeyer, Jr. 

tHon. E. L. Wemple. 

Hon. George T. Werts. 

Charles W. Wetmore. 

Edmund Wetmore. 

Henry W. Wetmore. 

*Hon. Thomas Wheeler. 

Hon. J. DuPratt White. 

Fred. C. Whitney. 

Gen. W. C. S. Wiley. 

Hon. William R. Willcox. 

Charles R. Wilson. 

Edward C. Wilson. 

Frederick W. Wilson. 

Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. 

tHon. L. H. Wing. 

tHon. John Wirth. 

Hon. John S. Wise. 

Flon. H. Otto Wittpenn. 

Charles B. Wolffram. 

J. S. Wood. 

Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, 
U. S. A. 

Gen. Stezcart L. Woodford. 



List of Members 



941 



Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff. 
W. E. Woolley. 
William Wortman. 
James A. Wright. 



*Hon. Frederick M. Young. 
Hon. Richard Young, 
tllon. F. G. Zinsser. 



JForftgn OlnrrpHpmt&i^nt (daunriUnra 



Dr. A. Bredms, No. 6 Prinsegracht, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Hon. C. G. Hooft, No. 609 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, The Nether- 
lands. 

Hon. D. Hudig, No. 105 Wijn Haven, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Dr. W. Martin, No. 26 Emmastraat, The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Dr. E. W. Moes, No. 85 Franz von Mierisstraat, Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands. 



943 
Minutes of 

Trustees' Meeting 

March 24, 1909. 

The thirty-sixth meeting of the Trustees of the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission was held at head- 
quarters in the Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau street, 
New York City, Wednesday, Alarch 24th, 1909, at 3 o'clock. 
The Chairmen of Committees were also invited to be 
present. 

Roll Call. 

Present : Mr. Herman Ridder, Acting President, presid- 
ing; and Dr. George C. Batcheller, Constructor Wm. J. 
Baxter, U. S. N. ; Air. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. William J. 
Curtis, Mr. Frederick B. Dalzell, Air. George G. DeWitt, 
Air. Theodore Fitch, Air. Edward Hagaman Hall, Air. 
George A. Hearn, Hon. Warren Higley, Air. Samuel Ver- 
planck Hofifman, Air. August F. Jaccaci, Col. William Jay, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. Gustav Lindenthal, Col. Arthur 
AlacArthur, Air. William A. Alarble, Hon. Benjamin 
AlcClung, Air. William J. AIcKay, Rear Admiral George 
W. Alelville. U. S. N. ; Capt. Jacob W. Aliller, Air. William 
C. Aluschenheim, Air. Eben E. Olcott, Air. John E. Par- 
sons, Hon. Samuel Parsons, Air. Bayard L. Peck, Dr. 
Eugene H. Porter. Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Alaj.-Gen. 
Charles F. Roe, Air. Louis T. Romaine, Air. Henry W. 
Sackett, President Jacob Gould Schurman, Air. Isaac N. 
Seligman, Hon. Daniel Sheehan, Air. Francis Lynde Stet- 
son, Air. Spencer Trask, Col. John W. Vrooman, Capt. 
Aaron Ward, U. S. N. ; Hon. Nathan A. Warren, Gen. Jas. 
Grant Wilson and Hon. Timothy L. Woodrufif. 

Absentees Excused. 
The following members were excused for absence: Hon. 
William Berri, Air. Henry W. Cannon, Sir Caspar Purdon 



944 Minutes of Trustees 

Clarke, Hon. Robert \Y. de Forest, Mr. Henry E. Gregory, 
Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Wm. McCarroll, Mr. Frank D. 
Millet, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Hon. Edward C. Stokes, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward and Mr. Charles R. Wilson. 

Death of Hon. John H. Starin. 

The Acting President announced the death of the Hon. 
John H. Starin, which occurred at his home in New York 
City on Monday, March 22, and asked Gen. Wilson to ex- 
press the sentiments of the Commission. 

General Wilson paid a feeling tribute to the memory of 
Mr. Starin as a fine type of self-made man. Air. Starin 
was born in Sammonsville, N. Y., in 1825, being descended 
from old Dutch stock. Nicholas Starn (as the name was 
then spelled) founder of the family in this country, came 
to America in 1695 and settled in Fort Orange, N. Y., now 
Albany. Among Mr. John H. Starin's ancestors were 
several who served in the Revolutionary Army. Mr. Starin 
came to New York City in his young manhood and began 
the study of medicine, but soon abandoned this profession 
for a business career. Having made the acquaintance of 
Commodore Vanderbilt, he took up the solicitation of 
freight for the Hudson River railroad. Later, he went into 
business for himself, and at the time of his death controlled 
the freight lighterage business of the New York Central & 
Hudson River Railroad, the Morris & Essex Railroad, the 
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and the Central 
Railroad of Nj\, Jersey. He was a Republican in politics 
and was elected to Congress for two successive terms begin- 
ning in 1876. President Garfield offered him the position 
of Collector of the Port of New York, an honor which he 
declined. He had extensive business connections and 
was prominently identified with the establishment of the 
subway system. He was a member of many civic societies, 
and was held in high esteem for the soundness of his judg- 
ment and the readiness of his counsel in public aft'airs. 
General Wilson said that in his death, the community at 



March 24, 1909 945 

large and this Commission in particular, had sustained a 
great loss. 

Minutes Approved. 
The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed and 
sent to all the members, were approved at printed. 

$jO Appropriated for Indexing Miintfes. 
The Secretary was authorized to employ a person to index 
the minutes of the Commission at a compensation not to ex- 
ceed $50 for the work. 

Treasurer's Report. 

The report of the Treasurer was read as follows: 

To the Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 
mission : Gentlemen, I have the honor to report the state 
of the treasury on March 24. 1909, as follows: 

State Fund, Appropriation of 
$162,500 made by chapter 466 
of the laws of 1908: 

DEBIT. 

To cash received from State Treasurer .... $7,682 22 

CREDIT. 

By paid on approved vouchers as per report of 

Feb. 24, 1909 $7,682 22 

Paid on approved vouchers since Feb. 24. 1909 : 

27. A. H. Stoddard 2,344 71 

28. American District Telegraph Co 16 55 

29. Miss J. A. Cooke 3 00 

30. Curtin's Transfer and Storage Co 85 00 

31. De-Fi Manufacturing Co 3 5^ 

32. Enterprise Desk Co 56 50 

33. Charles Goldstein 5250 

34. E. H. Hall 449 28 

35. Ignaz Herman 135 05 

36. Lyman D. Jones 104 50 

37. Lehmaier & Brother 10 75 

38. J. B. Lyon Co 93 92 

39. ^Manhattan Stove Co 12 25 



946 Minutes of Trustees 

40. Manhattan Woodworking Co $76740 

41. Jacob W. Miller 25 00 

42. George N. Moran 320 36 

43. New York Telephone Co 25 56 

44. William Parry 625 00 

45. John Polhemus Printing Co 24 35 

46. F. A. Ringler Co 2 66 

47. Henry Romeike, Inc 10 38 

48. Safety Fire Extinguisher Co 201 60 

49. Scheer & Ebert 21 1 05 

50. Stewart & Co 22 50 

51. A. H. Stoddard 461 50 

52. Typewriter Exchange 6 50 

53. Underwood Typewriter Co 4 25 

54. Lillie V'reeland 13 90 

55. John Wanamaker 6 75 

56. David T. Wells 237 58 

57. Westinghouse Electric & Manufac. Co. . . 135 00 

58. White Studio 33 50 

59. William Wilkening 678 35 

60. Jacob Zucker 24 50 

61. A. H. Stoddard 1,858 38 

62. A. FT. Stoddard 1,888 88 

63. A. H. Stoddard 1,874 38 

64. Staten Island Shipbuilding Co 1,000 00 

Total credit to date $21,509 06 

Total debit 7^682 22 

Debit balance March 24. 1909 $13,826 84 

The amount of the debit balance has been advanced by J. 
& W. Seligman >& Co., pending receipt of moneys from the 
State Treasurer. 

Subscription Fund Account. 

CREDIT. 

By paid on approved voucher : 

13. H. G. Paine $225 00 

There have been no receipts for the Subscription Fund 
account, and the amount of the above account has been ad- 
vanced by J. & W. Seligman & Co. pending reimbursement. 
Respectfully submitted, 

Isaac N. Seligman, 

Treasurer. 



March 24, 1909 947 

Bills Approved for Payment. 
The payment of the following bills was approved: 
Bills authorized and paid but not yet submitted to 
trustees : 

State Fund. 

A. H. Stoddard, Construction payroll March 

6 '. $1,858 38 

A. H. Stoddard, Construction payroll March 

13 

A. H. Stoddard, Construction payroll March 

20 1,874 38 

Staten Island Shipbuilding Co. on a/c of 

building Clermont 1,000 00 



Bills not paid or previously presented : 
State Fund. 

Abraham Brothers, paint, etc., (floats) 

American Dist. Tel. Co. February service. . 
Artists Packing & Shipping Co., expressage . . 

Baresi Coal Co., coal (floats) 

Bockhaus, George, carriage hire 

Bolton Electric Co., electric furnishings 

(floats) 

Cameron & Byington, jacks 

Carpenter, E., rattan (floats) 

Claflin, The H. B. Co., cloth (floats) 

Columbia Wagon Co., 30 trucks (floats) .... 

Conlon, J. Joseph, lettering door 

De-Fi Alanufacturing Co., carbon paper .... 

Demarest & Carr, excelsior (floats) 

Edmonds, Thos. C, & Co., glass (floats) . . . 

Estey Wire Works Co., wire (floats) 

Frank, Henry, Tr., hardware (floats) 

Gillmann, C. F. & Co., clock (floats) 

Goldstein, Charles, glass (floats) 



I, 



$6,621 64 



Subscription Fund. 

H. G. Paine, editor of souvenir book, 4^ 

weeks ending Feb. 27th $225 00 



^63 


06 


4 


20 


2 


GO 


14 50 


8 


00 


212 


39 


15 


00 


20 


00 


261 


20 


2,334 


00 


3 


25 


7 


00 


13 


23 


65 


37 


164 


95 


5 


81 


6 


00 


28 


50 



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Hall, E. H., disbursements $227 65 

March salary 650 00 

Hermann, Ignaz, sheet iron work (floats) . . 

Hubbs, Chas. F., & Co., paper (floats) 

Linde, Abraham, office boy, March 

Lyon, J. B. Co., printing 

Lyons & Chabot, muslin, etc. (floats) 

Manhattan Machine Co., pulleys, etc. (floats) . 
Manhattan Straw Board Co., strawboard 

(floats) 

Manhattan Wood Working Co., lumber 

(floats) 

Martin, Thomas, water-proof covers (floats) . 

Miller, Jacob W., disbursements 

Moran, George X., disbursements . . $47 84 

March salary, 291 66 

Morrell, Cornelius S., ofiice shelving 

National Press, cuts, etc. (publicity) 

New York Telephone Co., March service .... 

Parry, William, [March salary 

Polhemus Printing Co.. stationery 

Ringler, F. A. Co., photo engravings , 

Romeike, Henry, press clippings 

Safety Fire Extinguisher Co., chemicals .... 

Scheer & Ebert, plumbing (floats) 

Singer, M. A., burlap, etc. (floats) 

Smith Premier Typewriter Co., ribbons, etc.. . 

Stewart & Co., modeling clay (floats) 

Stoddard, A. H., disbursements .... $144 36 
March salary 416 66 

Stumpp & Walter Co., whitewashing machine, 
etc. (floats) 

Typewriter Exchange, rentals 

Underbill, J. E., picture frames 

Underw^ood Typewriter Co., stationery , 

Vreeland, Lillie, typewriting 

West Disinfecting Co. 

Wells, David T., disbursements .... $70 85 
March salary 208 33 



$877 


65 


II 


05 


34 


96 


20 


00 


166 


99 


95 43 


351 


73 


13 


40 


1,748 


70 


39 


75 


30 


00 


339 


50 


3.S 


50 


64 


7^ 


2S 


60 


625 


00 


54 


3« 


16 


20 


17 


13 


5 


00 


40 


21 


18 


70 


I 


25 


112 


50 



561 02 



White Studio, photographing 

Wikstrom, B. A., designing 10 floats 



30 


75 


9 


50 


2 


05 


28 


95 


10 


80 


17 


00 


279 


iS 


113 


40 


500 


00 



March 24, 1909 949 

Wilkening, Wm., hardware (floats J $43093 

Zucker, Jacob, office boy, March 30 00 



$9,987 38 



Subscription Fund. 

H. G. Paine, edr. souvenir book, 4 weeks end- 
ing March 27 $200 00 



Appointed by tlic Governor. 
The Secretary read a letter dated March 3, 1909, from 
the Secretary to the Governor, announcing the appointment 
of the following named gentlemen as members of the Com- 
mission, in accordance with the recommendation of the 
Trustees (p. 907) : 

Mr. William P. Adams, of Cohoes. 

Hon. Arthur L. Andrews, of Albany. 

Mr. Frank N. Bain, of Newburgh. 

Mr. Herbert Carl, of Kingston. 

Hon. Charles A. Elliott, of Catskill. 

Hon. Philip Elting, of Kingston. 

Hon. Hamilton Fish, of Garrison. 

Hon. Charles H. Gaus, of Albany. 

Mr. Robert J. Plarding, of Poughkeepsie. 

Mr. W. R. Harrison, of Kingston. 

Hon. Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck, of Kingston, 

Mr. Walter L. Hutchins, of Albany. 

Mr. David M. Kinnear, of Albany. 

Hon. Henry Kohl, of Newburgh. 

Mr. Robert J. MacFarland. of Chatham. 

Hon. Frank V. Millard, of Tarry town. 

Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, Ji"-. of Newburgh. 

Hon. Samuel K. Phillips, of A'latteawan. 

Mr. John Scanlon, of Cohoes. 

Hon. George V. L. Spratt, of Poughkeepsie. 

Gen. W. C. S. Wiley, of Catskill. 

Mr. Frederick W. Wilson, of Newburgh. 

The Secretary was directed to add their names to the roll 
of the Commission. 

Appointed by the Mayor. 
The Secretary read a letter dated March 2, 1909, from 
the Executive Secretary of the flavor of the City of New 



950 



Minutes of Trustees 



York, communicating the appointment of Mr. Henry 
Fuehrer, Mr. Theodore Henninger, Dr. Gustav Scholer 
and Mr. Oscar R. Seitz, as members of the Commission in 
accordance with the recommendation of the Trustees (pp. 
907-908). 

Also a letter dated March 17, 1909, communicating the 
appointment of the following named gentlemen upon the 
Mayor's initiative : 

Mr. Walter B. Pollock, Alanager, Alarine Department, 
N. Y. C. & H. R. R., Produce Exchange. 

Mr. Eugene F. Moran, President, I\ioran"s Towing Line, 
17 Battery Place, New York. 

Mr. Henry L. Joyce, Alanager, Marine Department, C. 
R. R. of N. J., 143 Liberty street. 

Mr. Fred. Coykendall, General Manager, Cornell Steam- 
boat Company, Foot of West 51st street. New York. 

Air. Robert S. Clark, Superintendent, Floating Equip- 
ment, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., Grand Central Station. 

Mr. Henry O. Nickerson, Alarine Superintendent, New 
England Navigation Company, Pier 19, North River. New 
York. 

Air. Henry B. Walker, President, C^ld Dominion Line, 
81 Beach street. New York. 

Mr. George L. Norton, Editor, Marine Journal, 17 State 
street. New York. 

Mr. Carl W. Jungen, Alanager. Aloran Line, 366 Broad- 
way, New York. 

Air. William IT. Pleasants. A'ice-President and General 
Alanager, Ocean Steamship Company, Pier 35, North River, 
New York. 

Air. William C. Hope, General Passenger Agent, C. R. R. 
of N. J., 143 Liberty street, N. Y. 

Mr. Pierre H. Alarshall, Terminal Agent, B. & O. R. R., 
Pier 22, North River, New York. 

Air. Harry B. James, President, Alanhattan Towing Com- 
pany, 143 Liberty street. New York. 

Mr. Clarence T. Snyder, Vice President, Interstate Light- 
erage Company, 143 Liberty street. New York. 

Air. John W. Emery, Alanager Alarine Department, Dela- 
ware, Lackawana and Western Railroad, 90 West street, 
New York. 

Air. Wallace P. Groom. Treasurer. Brooklvn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, Academy of Alusic, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

The Secretarv was directed to add their names to the roll. 



March 24, 1909 951 

E.vcc'ptcil from Ciiil Scnicc Examination. 
The Secretary read a letter dated March 22, 1909, from 
the Secretary of the State Civil Service Commission, stat- 
ing that tlie following named persons had been excepted 
from examination under the provisions of civil service 
rule VIII, sub-division 9, it appearing that said persons 
are engaged in private business and that the services to be 
rendered are professional, technical and expert, and of 
occasional and exceptional character : 

Mr. B. A. Wikstrom, designer of carnival floats, $50 per 
float, total compensation not exceeding $5,000. 

Air. Henry Gallup Paine, editor of memorial book, $50 
per week, total compensation not exceeding $2,000. 

Mr. Chester Beach, designer of official badge, total com- 
pensation not exceeding $300. 

Mr. Edward H. Blashfield, designer of official poster, 
total compensation not exceeding $500. 

Mr. Emil Fuchs, designer of official medal, total com- 
pensation not exceeding $1,000. 

Miss Grace E. Taft, indexer, total compensation not ex- 
ceeding $50. 

Netherlands Hudson-Fulton Commission. 
The Secretary read a letter dated The Hague, February 
27, 1909, from Mr. J. Heldring, Assistant Secretary, giving 
the following names of " The Netherlands Hudson-Fulton 
Commission, under the patronage of His Royal Highness, 
Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Duke of Alecklenburg:" 

Honorary President — Vice Admiral A. G. Ellis, Aide-de- 
camp to Her Majesty the Queen. 

President — Baron JE. Mackay, Minister of State. 

Vice-Presidents — Mr. J. T. Cremer, President of the 
Netherlands Trading Society, Amsterdam, and Mr. E. P. de 
Monchy, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotter- 
dam. 

Secretary — Major J. W. P. van Hoogstraten, Aide-de- 
Camp to Her Majesty the Queen. 

Assistant Secretary — Air. J. Fleldring, The Plague. 

Treasurer — Mr. R. van Rees. 

The managing directors of the Holland America Line. 

The managing directors of Royal Dutch West India Alail. 

Baron W. D. H. van Asbeck, Captain, R. N. 



952 Minutes of Trustees 

Baron J. d' Aulnis cle Uourrouil. Professor at the Uni- 
versity of Utrecht. 

Dr. H. Bavinck, Professor at the Free University of 
Amsterdam. 

Dr. P, J. Blok, Professor at the University of Leiden. 

Mr. S. P. van Eeghen, Chairman of the Chamber of 
Commerce, Amsterdam. 

Dr. A. Kuyper, Minister of State. 

Hon W. F. van Leeuwen, Mayor of Amsterdam. 

Mr. J. F. van Beek, Superintendent of shipbuilding at 
the Department of the Navy. 

Hon. F. S. van Nierop, Member of the First Chamber of 
Representatives. 

Hon. J. C. de Marez Oycns. Ex-Secrctary of State for 
Commerce. 

Hon. L. li. W. Regout. Secretary of State for Com- 
merce. 

Baron W. U. van Welderen Rengers, IMember of the 
First Chamber of Representatives. 

Jonkheer J. Roell, President of the Second Chaml)er of 
Representatives. 

Vice-Admiral Jonkheer J. A. Roell, Aide-de-camp to Her 
Majesty the Queen. 

Baron J. E. N. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye van 
Hoevelaken, President of First Chamber of Representa- 
tives. 

Hon. J. E. Scholten, Member of the First Chamber of 
Representatives. 

Hon. D. W. Stork, ^vlember of the First Chamber of 
Representatives. 

Vice-Admiral Baron J. H. L. J- Sweerts de Landas 
Wyborgh, Aide-de-camp to Her Majesty the Queen. 

Baron C. J. van Tuyll van Serooskerken. Comptroller of 
the Crown Lands. 

Baron J. J. G. van Voorst tot A'oorst, Aide-de-camp to 
Her Majesty the Queen. 

Jonkheer P. J. J. S. M. van der Does de Willebois, Mem- 
ber of the First Chamber of Representatives. 

Hon. A. R. Zimmerman, Mayor of Rotterdam. 

Half Moon's Keel Laid Oct. 2q, igoS. 
The Secretary stated that Mr. Fleldring's letter also stated 
that the keel of the Half Moon was laid Oct. 29. 1908. 
" Thus far, the progress made in the construction of the 



March 24, 1909 953 

Half Moon has been satisfactory and we hope to be able to 
launch the vessel by the end of April next." 

Changes in the Commission. 

The Acting President announced the following changes in 
the membership of the Commission : Hon. Andrew D. 
White and Hon. Hamilton Fish resigned; Hon. E. L. Post 
succeeds Hon. Vincent A. Murray as President of village of 
Cold Spring; Hon. Albert W. Twiggar succeeds Hon. Joel 
D. Madden as President of the village of Ossining; Hon. 
Chas. E. Storms succeeds Hon. Lyman C. French as Presi- 
dent of Dobb's Ferry; Hon. Louis Rosenkranz succeeds 
Hon. A. F. Quick as President of Rhinebeck; Hon. J. 
Fred Wehmeyer, Jr., succeeds Flon. Robert B. Waters as 
President ofGreen Island ; Hon. John Fridge succeeds Hon. 
Dennis Mo3aiihan as President of South Glens Falls; Hon, 
Wm. P. Bugbee succeeds Hon. Horace W. Boyd as Presi- 
dent of Nyack; Hon. Wm. S. Massoneau succeeds Hon. 
Frank E. Bennett as President of Red Hook; Hon James 
C. Armstrong becomes a member and trustee by virtue of 
his election as Mayor of Hudson; Hon, John Riordan suc- 
ceeds Hon. D. A. Bullard as President of Schuylerville ; 
Hon. A. j\L Patrick succeeds Hon. C. E. Vredenburg as 
President of Mechanicville ; Hon. L, H. Wing succeeds 
Lion. James E. Fitz Gerald as President of Fort Edward; 
Hon. John P. Dugan succeeds Hon. J. H. Doyle as Presi- 
dent of Fishkill; Hon. Frank Nichols succeeds Hon. F. W. 
Titus as President of Athens; and Hon. Wm. H. Phipps 
succeeds Hon. John T. Flynn as President of Castleton. 
The Hon. E. L Wood, President of Stillwater, died Nov. 
27, 1908. 

Committee Changes. 

The Acting President announced the following Committee 
changes : 

Hudson River Scenery: Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Hon. 
Thomas R. Proctor and Col. John W. Vrooman, added ; 

Lower Hudson : Hon. Albert W. Twiggar succeeds Hon. 
Joel D. Madden, term expired; Lion. E. L. Post succeeds 



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Hon. Vincent A. Murray, term expired ; Hon. \Vm. P. Bug- 
bee succeeds Hon. Horace W. Boyd, term expired and Hon. 
Cbas. E. Storms succeeds Hon. Lyman C. French, term 
expired. 

Upper Hudson : Hon. Hamilton Fish, resigned ; Hon. J. 
Fred Wehmeyer, Jr., succeeds Hon. Robert B. Waters, term 
expired ; Hon. John Fridge succeeds Hon. Dennis ]\Ioyni- 
ban, term expired ; Hon. Wni. S. Massoneau succeeds Hon. 
Frank E. Bennett, term expired ; Hon. Louis Rosenkranz 
succeeds Hon. A. F. Quick, term expired ; Hon. John 
Riordan succeeds Hon. D. A. Bullard, term expired; Hon. 
A. M. Patrick succeeds Hon. C. E. \"redenburg, term ex- 
pired; Hon. L. H. Wing succeeds Hon. James F. Fitz 
Gerald, term expired ; Hon. John P. Dugan succeeds Hon. 
J. H. Doyle, term expired; Hon. Frank Nichols succeeds 
Hon. F. W. Titus, term expired; Hon. Wm. H. Phipps suc- 
ceeds Hon. John T. Flynn, tenn expired. Hon. E. L Wood 
is deceased. 

Executive : Hon. John H. Starin, deceased. 

Naval Parade : Hon. John H. Starin, deceased. 

$6,000 Appropriated for Cliainplain Floats. 

Hon. Alexander R. Smith, Secretary of the Lake Cham- 
plain Ter-Centenary Commission, was given the privilege 
of the floor to speak in reference to the proposition of that 
Commission that the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion utilize the floats which the former intended to have 
built and to bear half the expense. The Champlain Com- 
mission proposes to have a floating platform measuring 
50 by 300 feet built upon six specially constructed barges, 
each barge being 19^ by 96 feet in size. Upon this plat- 
form scenes in Indian life are to be portrayed by Canadian 
Indians, the float being towed to dififerent places on Lake 
Champlain on different days during the celebration begin- 
ning July 5, 1909. The construction of these barges and 
platform will cost $12,000. The Champlain Commission 
proposes that in consideration of the sum of $6,000 to be 
paid to it by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 



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the Champlain Commission, after its celebration is con- 
cluded, will take the float apart and transport it to 
New York City for use upon the Hudson river during the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration, with the understanding that the 
latter will transport it back to Albany and there return 
it to the Champlain Commission. The proposition was 
orally submitted on February 26th by Hon. Henry W. Hill, 
who is a member of the Champlain Commission and also a 
member of the Finance Committee of the Senate, to the 
Secretary of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 
and by him communicated to the Chairmen of the Com- 
mittees on Naval Parade and Carnival and Historical 
Parades. At a meeting of the latter, it was decided to give 
Senator Hill assurance of the willingness of this Commis- 
sion to share the expense of the float as proposed, provided 
the Upper Hudson Committee would assume one-third of it, 
or $2,000, out of the funds which it was hoped would be 
secured for use at and above Newburgh. 

Mr. Smith asked that this Commission give the Champlain 
Commission official notice of its assumption of one-half of 
the expense of the float, so that the Champlain Commission 
could give the contract for construction at once. 

Col. MacArthur, Chairman of the Upper Hudson Com- 
mittee, said that he could not bind his committee but he 
would do what he could to consummate the division. 

Mr. Stetson said that until we were assured of the ap- 
propriation sought from the Legislature, he doubted whether 
it would be prudent to make a binding contract involving 
a proposed expenditure of $6,000 for this purpose. 

The Acting President said he was so confident that the 
Legislature would make the appropriation that he thought 
the trustees would be justified in appropriating the sum 
mentioned. 

Mr. Trask moved that the sum of $6,000 be appropriated 
toward the building of the float, in accordance with the 
proposition of the Lake Champlain Ter-Centenary Com- 
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Committees Report Progress. 
The Acting President then called for reports from com- 
mittees in alphabetical order, and various reports of pro- 
gress were made. 

$^30 Appropriated to Daughters of American Revolution. 

Upon recommendation of Dr. Kunz, Chairman of the 
sub-committee on Historical Exhibits, President Schurman 
moved that $250 be appropriated to the New York State 
Daughters of the American Revolution for publications. 
Carried. 

$.?30 Appropriated to Colonial Dames. 

Upon recommendation of Dr. Kunz, President Schurman 
moved that $250 be appropriated to the Colonial Dames of 
the State of New York toward an exhibition in the Van 
Cortlandt mansion in A'an Cortlandt Park, New York. 
Carried. 

Nezi^ York Historical Society's Robert Fulton Exhibit Made 

Official. 
Upon motion of Dr. Kunz. it was voted that the exhibi- 
tion of Fulton portraits, miniature, manuscripts, etc., to be 
held by the New York Historical Society be recognized as 
the official Robert Fulton exhibition of the Celebration. 

Appropriation for Bookkeeper. 

Upon recommendation of Mr. Phillips, Chairman of the 

Auditing Committee, Mr. Seligman, the Treasurer, moved 

that the committee be authorized to engage a bookkeeper 

at a salary not exceeding the rate of $1,350 a year. Carried. 

Official Flag Adopted. 
Mr. Jaccaci, Chairman of the Committee on Badges, 
Flag and Poster, submitted a sample flag and moved its ap- 
proval as the official flag. The flag consists of a horizontal 
tri-color of orange, white and blue bunting, the colors 
being named in their order from the top. In the center of 
the flag, within a green wreath, in plain letters, are the 



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initials " II. F." Mr. Jaccaci explained that the colors were 
those of Holland under which Hudson sailed in 1609. 
These flags can be made in wool bunting, 4 by 6 feet in size, 
at a cost of from $2.25 to $2.50 and retail at the drygoods 
stores for $3. In silk the same size they would cost 
about $12 and retail for $15; in sewed cotton, cost $1 and 
sell for $1.50; in printed cotton, 2 by 3 feet in size, retail at 
25 cents; printed silk, 8 by 12 inches, at 25 cents. These 
prices are approximate. The report continues as follows : 

" We submit that the design of the flag should be copy- 
righted to prevent cheap, unworthy imitations and that bids 
should be asked from flag makers. The proper specifica- 
tions should be drawn, embodying prices to the commission 
and prices, to the trade. The contract should cover all these 
points and control the proper making and the prices to the 
trade and to the public. Flags should be for sale at all dry- 
goods stores; that is the usual method of distribution." 

Mr. Jaccaci's motion was adopted. 

Design of Badges Referred to Executive Coiiunittee With 

Pozver. 

In regard to badges, Mr. Jaccaci reported as follows : 

" In the matter of badges we recommend a bar, medal 
and two ribbons as per sketch. 

"All the members of the commission to have the same 
badge with bar and medal of solid silver. The name ' Com- 
mission ' and possibly the name of the commissioner to be 
on the bar. The upper ribbon to be orange, white and light 
blue like the flag. The lower ribbon to be of a solid color 
to be determined by your committee. 

" When a committee is in action the lower ribbon is to be 
substituted by a white one which will tell at a glance that 
the committeeman wearing it is in authority at the time. 
As there may be several committees in charge at the same 
time, we propose that besides the white ribbon each commit- 
teeman should wear a button with the name of his specin] 
committee. This is a substitute for the name of the com- 
mittee printed on the ribbon. 

" The chairmen of committees are to be distinguished by 
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" The guests are to have the same badge as the members 
of the commission, except that the lower ribbon shall be of 
a distinctive color, golden or gold, and that the word 
" Guest " shall be on the bar. 

" The aides are to have the word "Aides " on the bar. 
The metal of the bar and the medal is to be distinctive and 
for the aides alone. They should have but one ribbon, the 
upper or flag ribbon. 

" The public to have the medal attached to the flag ribbon 
and no bar. Several sizes of this medal might be made. 
The way in which the Lincoln medal was reproduced and 
sold would form an intelligent basis for your committee to 
decide upon sizes. 

"Your committee ask for power to go ahead on the above 
basis, to request bids from the badge makers and make con- 
tracts for the making and proper distribution of these 
badges and medals. 

" Badge makers having told us that they had been ap- 
proached by some of the up-state committees and asked to 
submit ideas and prices for suitable badges, it seems ad- 
visable that the Secretary of the Commission should at once 
inform the Upper and Lower Hudson Committees, and 
their sub-committees, that only the official badge and medal 
should be used, not only because, being the work of one of 
the best American sculptors, it it beautiful, dignified and 
worthy of the commemoration but because we should make 
money on the sale of those medals to the public, and that if 
we have no competition among ourselves, many more of our 
medals will be sold." 

Mr. Stetson thought that there should not be one design 
for the official medal and another for the badges. He there- 
fore moved that the recommendations of the committee con- 
cerning badges be referred to the Executive Committee with 
power. Carried. 

Official Banquet at Hotel Astor. 

Mr. Stetson. Chairman, reported that the Banquet Com- 
mittee had voted to hold the official banquet at the Hotel 
Astor provided satisfactory terms could be arranged. The 
question of price of tickets and the question whether ladies 
should be invited were still open. The banquet hall will 



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seat about 1,200 guests in the open and about 500 more 
under the gallery, or about 1,700 in all. Out of the total 
number, it is likely that from 400 to 500 will be official 
guests. The price charged for the tickets for the other 
guests will have to be sufficient to cover the cost of the 
official guests. It seemed to the Committee therefore that 
the price of the tickets would have to be about $20 apiece. 
In regard to having ladies at the banquet, Mr. Stetson was 
strongly of the opinion that they should be asked to lend 
the grace of their presence. It was fair, however, to state 
the other side of the question. If, out of 1,500 persons at 
the dinner, 500 were official guests, there would be 1,000 
places left for all others. If one-half of the latter were 
ladies, there would be accommodations for only 500 men. 
As there were nearly 500 members of the commission, it had 
been suggested that if ladies were invited, there would not 
be room enough for all the men whom it might be desirable 
to invite. It was possible, however, that means might be 
found for adjusting the accommodations to the necessities, 
and still admit the ladies. The admirable results of their 
presence at the peace dinner given in honor of the Hon. 
Elihu Root very strongly predisposed him in favor of hav- 
ing them present. 

President Schurman asked if the question were not 
whether to exclude the ladies or to exclude men guests wdio 
ought to be admitted. 

Mr. Stetson replied that the question was not quite so 
sharply defined as that. He thought that of those who po- 
tentially could come, enough w^ould decline to make the ad- 
mission of ladies practicable. 

Mr. Seligman suggested that there might be two separate 
dinners. 

Mr. Stetson said it would be better to have two dinners in 
the same house than in difi^erent houses. 

Mr. ^luschenheim said that the Hotel Astor could open 
additional rooms into the large dining hall, or could give 
another dinner at the same time for 800 or 900 guests. 



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After a general discussion by ^Ir. Ridder, Mr. Trask, Mr. 
Bergen and others, the subject was postponed for further 
consideration when the Commission could form an estimate 
of the number of official guests. 

Jurisdiction over Children's Festivals Divided. 

On the recommendation of Chairman Parsons of the 
Children's Festivals Committee and of Chairman Schurman 
of the General Commemorative Exercises Committee, it 
was 

Resolved, That the work of these two committees be re- 
arranged so as to transfer to the Children's Festivals Com- 
mittee all jurisdiction over the celebrations to be held by 
the children in the City of New York and to the General 
Commemorative Exercises Committee all jurisdiction over 
the celebrations to be held by the children throughout the 
remainder of the State. 

Azcard of Sehool Medals Approved. 

President Schurman. Chairman of the Committee on Gen- 
eral Commemorative Exercises, reported that the Hon. 
Andrew S. Draper, State Commissioner of Education and 
a member of his Committee, was cordially co-operating and 
lending very valuable help. He was having prepared a 
pamphlet which would be printed to the possible number of 
100.000 copies, and which would be circulated among the 
school children and teachers of the State. It promised to 
be of very great service. 

President Schurman said that his Committee also believed 
that the educational side of the celebration would be pro- 
moted by giving medals to scholars for the best essays on 
subjects relating to Hudson and Fulton — these medals to 
be awarded upon the judgment of the faculty of each school 
to the boy and the girl preparing the best essays in that 
school. It was believed that bronze medals could be sup- 
plied at a cost of $1 each and silver medals at a cost of $2. 
He, therefore, moved that the Trustees authorize the Com- 
mittee on General Commemorative Exercises to award such 



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medals, with the understanding that if they are to be paid 
for out of the appropriation already made to that Com- 
mittee, the Committee shall have the privilege of coming 
back to the Trustees for an additional appropriation if 
necessary. He said that the Committee did not contem- 
plate any other heavy expenditures. 

The motion that the Committee be authorized to award 
the medals was carried. 

It was voted that the making of the medals be referred to 
the Executive Committee with pow'er. 

Aduiission to Float Construction Works Limited by Ticket. 

Air. Hoffman, Chairman of the Historical Committee, re- 
ported that the construction of historical floats was making 
good progress at the works called by the constructors " the 
Den " at Harlem river and 149th street in the Bronx. He 
said that the Committee would be happy to have members of 
the Commission visit the place to see the floats in process of 
construction, but in order to keep out unauthorized persons 
it was necessary to have admission by ticket only. At the 
request of the Historical Committee he oft'ered the follow- 
ing resolution : 

Whereas, the responsibility of selecting and accepting 
the designs for the several floats which are to be a part of 
the Historical Parade in September rests with the Histori- 
cal Committee and under the power vested in that Com- 
mittee, the floats are now being constructed ; 

And whereas, it is desirable that the work be not unneces- 
sarily disturbed; therefore, be it 

Resolved, That non-transferrable tickets for single ad- 
mission, countersigned by the Chairman of the Historical 
Committee, be issued to members of the Commission upon 
application to Mr. A. H. Stoddard, Captain of Pageantry, 
who shall specify upon the ticket such rooms as in his judg- 
ment may be visited ; and that all tickets heretofore issued, 
except to the workmen employed, be recalled. 

The Acting President made a brief explanation of the 
need of the proposed regulation, after which the motion was 
carried. 



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Hospitality of Hotel Astor Extended to Committees. 

Dr. Batcheller, Chairman of the Committee on Hospi- 
tahty, reported progress. 

Mr. Muschenheim of the Hotel Astor said that he would 
be pleased to provide rooms for any committees which 
might find it convenient to hold meetings in his hotel. 

The Acting President expressed the Trustees' apprecia- 
tion of the kind ofifer. 

Arrangements for Illuminations. 
The Secretary reported for the Committee on Illumina- 
tions that excellent progress was being made in the prepara- 
tions for illuminations along the Hudson Valley. About 40 
municipalities had already made contracts for bonfires and 
pyrotechnics under the arrangement with the Pain Manu- 
facturing Company, official illuminators. 

Commission Declines to Co-operate in Piecemeal Acquisi- 
tion of Iniuood Hill. 

Mr. John E. Parsons, Chairman of the Inwood Hill Park 
Committee, offered the resolution given belov^^. prefacing it 
with an explanation of the situation at Inwood Hill. In- 
wood Hill, he said, constitutes the extreme northern end of 
Manhattan Island, and is bordered on three sides by the 
waters of the Hudson river and Spuyten Duyvil creek. 
Treated by itself, it constitutes an almost symmetrical hill 
sloping four ways. On the western side, the slope, while 
steep, is more gradual than on the eastern. The same is 
measurably true of the northern side. On the eastern side, 
however, the hill is more abrupt and the property is less 
valuable. Of the 100 acres or more on the hill, about 70 
acres should be taken for public purposes, embracing the 
crest and the western, northern and eastern slopes. The top 
of the hill has an altitude of about 220 feet and is an eligible 
site for some form of monument. In considerable part, and 
except for the natural changes of time, the land is in its 
native condition as Hudson saw it. AAHien this Commis- 
sion first brought to the mayor's attention the subject of the 



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acquisition of In wood Hill as a park, it was estimated that 
the property might have been acquired for a sum that 
would have been satisfactory to the judgment of this Com- 
mittee if the city had been dealing as an individual. As 
soon as the project became known, however, some of the 
owners and real estate speculators raised their prices. Back 
of these difficulties was the necessity of application to the 
Board of Estimate and Ap])ortionment, and meeting the 
question " Have you options to guarantee the acquisition of 
the property at that price?" 

Meanwhile, two other projects developed in connection 
with Inwood Hill. One is the extension of Riverside Drive, 
and the other is the acquisition of an approach to the pro- 
posed bridge over Spuyten Duyvil creek. If these projects 
are treated as three separate schemes, the result will be to 
increase enormously the amount to be asked for. The 
Commission, through its Committee, has consistently taken 
the position with the mayor and cit}^ authorities that while 
earnestly desirous for the creation of Inwood Hill Park, it 
will not countenance the payment of exorbitant prices or co- 
operate in any scheme which calls for a larger expenditure 
than we can commend. Afifairs have now reached a stage 
where it is a question whether the Commission should not 
withhold its efiforts ; and let any other scheme by the prop- 
erty owners go through on its own merits. He, therefore, 
ofifered the following resolution, as approved b}- his com- 
mittee : 

Whereas, bearing upon the effort to acquire Inwood Hill 
or a sufficient part thereof for a park are three schemes to 
be considered : 

1. The park scheme. 

2. The plan for approaches to Spuyten Duyvil bridge. 

3. The extension of the Riverside Drive, the necessary 
land for the latter two of which would be provided if the 
city acquired the land for the park. 

And whereas, any eft'ort for the accomplishment of either 
plan separately would necessarily result in large increased 
expense because of the cost of condemnation proceedings, 
and an increase in the amounts claimed by property owners 



March 24, 1909 965 

for the park if the city is to be at the expense of land for 
the drive or for the approaches to the bridge, either or both ; 
And whereas, the Committee have been unwilHng from 
the beginning that the result of efforts on its part should be 
to increase the cost to the city of the land needed for the 
park; 

Resolved, That until further action to the contrary the 
Commission do not co-operate in any effort to acquire the 
land for the park, except in such way as that such land shad 
also provide for the extension of the drive and the bridge 
approaches ; provided, however, that the Committee will co- 
operate for the acquisition of the entire area for a park, the 
bridge approaches and the Riverside Drive Extension, to be 
taken from such land, with such property owners as wdl 
give to the city an option upon their land for their holdings 
at such price as the Committee shall deem suitable and satis- 
factory. 

John E. Parsons, Chairman. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

W. J. Curtis, 

George F. Kunz. 

The resolution was adopted. 

Bill to Increase Ninnher of Members and Trustees. 
Mr. Stetson, Chairman of the Committee on Law and 
Legislation, reported that at the request of the executive offi- 
cers and after consultation with the Committee on Nomina- 
tions, the Committee of which he Vv'as chairman had drafted 
a bill increasing the number of members and trustees of the 
Commission as follows : 

An act to increase the number of the members and trustees 
of the Hudson-Fulton celebration commission. 

The People of the State of Nezc York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do eiiaet as follows: 

Section i. The members and trustees of the Hudson-Ful- 
ton celebration commission as designated by or under the 
acts, chapter three hundred and twenty-five of the laws of 
nineteen hundred and six. and chapter two hundred and 
seventeen of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight, are and 
shall be increased in number by adding to and including as 
such members and trustees, such persons, not exceeding 



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fifty in all, as from time to time shall be elected as trustees 
by the trustees of such commission at any regular or speciil 
meeting of such trustees. 

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

This bill had been introduced in the Senate on J\Iarch 15th 
by Hon. J. Mayhew Wainwright and in the Assembly on 
March i8th by the Hon. Beverly R. Robinson. This pro- 
vision, said Mr. Stetson, seemed to be needed to provide for 
the addition to the Board of Trustees of gentlemen whose 
counsel and co-operation were greatly desired without dis- 
placing any of those whose services had been so valuable in 
the past. 

It was voted that the action of the Committee be ap- 
proved. 

Mr. Stetson added that he v\-as without information as to 
the status of the appropriation bill. 

Legal Protection of Designs. 

Mr. Stetson suggested the propriety of obtaining State 
legislation to protect the designs for the official flag, badges, 
poster, medal and other designs of the Commission, in addi- 
tion to the usual copyright protection. 

It was voted that the Committee on Law and Legislation 
be authorized to secure such legal protection as might be 
needed. 

Loiver Hudson Couiniittcc Promised Ploats. 

Mayor Warren, Chairman of the Lower Hudson Com- 
mittee, reported that his Committee had appointed the 
presidents of villages as chairmen of local citizens' com- 
mittees and that a very lively interest was being taken in 
the celebration. 

He suggested that the Commission allow certain floats to 
go to the towns along the river after the parade in New 
York. 

The Acting President assured Alayor Warren that his 
Committee could have the floats as desired. 




ML, 



Design for Monument to Henry Hudson to be erected on Spuyten Duyvi 

Hill, New York, by private subscription under the auspices of 

the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 



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Mr. Huntinyton Acting Chainiiaii of Medal Committee. 

Mr. Jaccaci proposed that in the absence abroad of Mr. 
Cannon and Mr. Adams, Mr. Archer M. Huntington be ap- 
pointed Acting Chairman of the Medal Committee. He 
said that he felt sure that this would be agreeable to Mr. 
Adams, to whom Mr. Cannon deputed his duties of chair- 
man before he left town. 

The Acting President appointed Mr. Huntington as 
recommended. 

Medal Appropriation Referred to Executive Committee. 
Mr. Stetson said that it was very essential that we be in 
communication with the chairman of the Medal Committee 
in order that arrangements may be made for the striking of 
the medals. He, therefore, moved that the matter of the 
manufacture of the medals be referred to the Executive 
Committee with power to make an appropriation. It was 
expected, he said, that the entire cost of the medals would 
come back from their sale. 
The motion was carried. 

Hudson Monument Adopted as Part of Programme. 

Mr. Bergen, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
reported that the Book of the Celebration was being made 
up, and that progress was being made on the Programme 
for the Day and the Book of Floats. 

He submitted a model for the Hudson Monument to be 
erected on Spuyten Duyvil hill by private subscription and 
moved that its erection be made a part of the official pro- 
gramme. This monument will be located on an elevation of 
200 feet, and will be in the shape of a fluted doric column 
100 feet in height, making a total of 300 feet above the sea. 
On this column will be a statue of Henry Pludson, about 
20 feet in height, making a grand total of 320 feet. Mr. 
Karl Bitter will model the statue. On the square base on 
which the column rests will be a tablet by Mr. Henry M. 
Shrady. The column itself and the base were designed by 
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Mr. Samuel Parsons asked if the monument were to be 
placed on public property, saying that in such case the 
approval of the Municipal Art Commission would be a pre- 
requisite. 

Mr. Muschenheim, who initiated the movement for the 
monument, replied that it was expected that the monument 
would be erected on public property and that application 
would be made to the municipal authorities in due course. 

Line of March Discussed. 

General Roe, Chairman of the Committee on Military 
Parade, asked the advice of the Trustees concerning the line 
of March. Two routes seemed to be available. One was 
entirely along Fifth avenue, from Washington square to 
iioth street. In front of the Public Library between 40th 
and 42d streets there would be room for an official review- 
ing stand holding about 5,000 persons. The other route 
was from Washington square up Fifth avenue to about 
59th street, thence through 59th street, Broadway, 72d 
street and Riverside Drive to Grant's Tomb. He sub- 
mitted the propriety of adopting one of these routes. The 
advantage of the first was that it was in the center of the 
city and could be reached by the people of the east side with 
less carfare and inconvenience than the other. 

The Acting President said that a route should be selected 
along which all three parades — the Historical, Military and 
Carnival parades — could move ; and that it should be 
borne in mind that the tall floats of the Historical and 
Carnival parades could not pass under the elevated railroad. 

General Roe said that the Fifth avenue route would not 
pass under any elevated railroad structures. 

The decision of the route was left to a conference be- 
tween the committees having charge of the various parades. 

$^00 Allotted for Siipcrz'isioii of Construction of Clermont. 

Captain INIiller, Chairman of the Committee on Naval 

Parade, reported that the contract for the building of the 

Clermont had been awarded to the Staten Island Shipbuild- 



March 24, 1909 969 

ing Company and he moved that Mr. J. W. Millard, who 
had assisted in drawing the plans and specifications, be ap- 
pointed inspector of construction on behalf of the Commis- 
sion, at a total compensation not to exceed $500, to be paid 
out of the appropriation of $40,000 to the Navel Parade 
Committee. Carried. 

Colonel UlacArthur Elected Trustee, vice Mr. Star in. 
Deceased. 

Mr. Fitch, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations, 
presented a report recommending the election of Colonel 
Arthur MacArthur, Chairman of the Upper Hudson Com- 
mittee, as a Trustee in place of Hon. John H. Starin, de- 
ceased. 

There being no other nominations, it was unanimously 
voted that the Secretary be instructed to cast one ballot in 
behalf of the meeting for Colonel MacArthur. The ballot 
having been cast as directed, the Acting President declared 
Colonel MacArthur elected. 

Nominated for Appointment on the Commission. 
Mr. Fitch also reported in behalf of the Committee on 
Nominations, recommending that the following named gen- 
tlemen be nominated to the Governor and Mayor respect- 
ively for appointment as members of the Commission: 

By the Governor: Col. Hugh L. Scott, U. S. A., com- 
mandant of West Point Military Academy, West Point; 
Hon. Thomas H. Lee, ex-District Attorney of Rockland 
County, Stony Point ; and Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, D. D., 
grandson of Robert Fulton, Matteawan. 

By the Mayor: Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor 
of The Herald, Herald Square ; Mr. Emil L. Boas, manager 
of the Hamburg American Line, No. 45 Broadway ; Mr. 
Robert Fulton Crary, Jr., great-grandson of Robert Fulton, 
No. 30 Nassau street; Mr. Philip T. Dodge, president of 
the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. and of the Engineers' Club, 
No. 154 Nassau street; Mr. A. W. Dodsworth of The Jour- 
nal of Commerce, No. 7,2 Broadway; Mr. Henry L. 
Einstein of The Press, No. 7 Spruce street; Mr. H. A. Hal- 
lett of The Morning Telegraph, Eighth avenue and 50th 
street; Mr. William M. Laffan of The Sun, No. 170 Nassau 



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street ; Hon. William Loeb, Jr., Collector of the Port of 
New York, Custom House; Hon. Chester S. Lord of The 
Sun, No. 170 Nassau street; Mr. Hart Lyman of The 
Tribune, No. 154 Nassau street; Air. Andrew McLean of 
Brooklyn Citizen, No. 397 Fulton street, Brooklyn; Mr. 
Adolph S. Ochs of The Times, Times Square; Mr. Joseph- 
Pulitzer of The World, Park Row, Lieut. Col. Arthur F. 
Schermerhorn, member of numerous patriotic societies and 
military aide in many celebrations of national importance, 
No. 251 West 107th street; Mr. Melville E. Stone, Secre- 
tary of the Associated Press, No. 195 Broadway; Mr. 
Samuel Straus of The Globe, No. 5 Dey street; Mr. James 
A. Sperry of The Brooklyn Times, No. 24 Broadway, 
Brooklyn; Mr. Wm. H. Truesdale, President of the Dela- 
ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, No. 90 West 
street; Mr. Oswald G. Villard of The Evening Post, No. 20 
Vesey street ; and Hon. Edgerton L. Winthrop, Jr., Presi- 
dent of the Board of Education, 500 Park avenue. 

It was voted that the nominations be recommended to the 
Governor and Mayor. 

Board of Tnisfccs Renominated. 
Mr. Fitch also presented the following report: 

To the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission : The 
Nominations Committee hereby nominates the following 
gentlemen for re-election at the annual meeting of the Com- 
mission to be held May 5th, 1909, as trustees of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission : 



Hon. John G. Agar, 
Hon. James K. Apgar, 
Col. John Jacob Astor, 
Col. Franklin Bartlett, 
Hon. James M. Beck, 
Mr. August Belmont, 
]\Ir. Tunis G. Bergen, 
Hon. William Berri, 
Hon. Frank S. Black, 
Hon. A. J. Boulton, 
Mr. George V. Brower, 
Hon. J. Rider Cady, 
Mr. Henry W. Cannon, 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, 
Sir Caspar Purdon Claike, 



Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 
Mr. Paul D. Cravath, 
Mr. William J. Curtis. 
Mr. Robert L^ilton Cutting, 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest, 
Mr. George G. De\\'itt. 
Mr. John C. Fames, 
Hon. J. Sloat Fci'^sptt. 
Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, 
Mr. Theodore Fitch, 
Hon. Charles S. Fraiici.'-.. 
Mr. George I. (jould, 
Maj. Gen. "F. D. Grant. 

U.S. A, 
Mr. Henry E. Gregory, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 



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Mr. George A. Hearn, 
Hon. Warren Higley, 
Hon. David B. Hill, 
Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoff- 
man. 
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, 
Hon. Henry Hudson, 
Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
Col. William Jay, 
Gen. Horatio C. King, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Mr. John La Farge, 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb, 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 
Hon. Seth Low, 
Hon. Arthur MacArthur, 
Hon. William McCarroll, 
Mr. W^illiam J. McKay, 
Rear Adm. Geo. W. Melville, 

U. S. N. 
Hon. John G. Milburn, 
Capt. Jacob W. Miller, 
Mr. Frank D. Millet, 
Mr. Ogden Mills, 
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 
Hon. Levi P. Morton, 
Mr.William C. Muschenheim, 
Mr. Ludwig Nissen, 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Hon. Samuel Parsons, 
Mr. Bayard L. Peck, 
Hon. George W. Perkins, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 



Gen. Horace Porter, 
Hon. Thomas R. Proctor, 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Louis C. Raegener, 
Mr. Herman Ridder, 
Air. William Rockefeller, 
Maj. Gen. Chas. F. Roe, 
Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, 
Col. Henry W. Sackett, 
Col. Herbert L. Satterlee, 
Pres. Jacob Gould Schurmar 
Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, 
Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, 
Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Mr. J. Edward Simmons, 
Mr. Nelson S. Spencer, 
Mr. James Speyer, 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, 
Mr. James Stillman, 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 
Mr. Spencer Trask, 
Lieut. Com. Aaron Vander- 

bilt, 
Air. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Mr. William B. Van Rens- 
selaer. 
Col. John W^ A^'rooman, 
Dr. Samuel B. Ward, 
Mr. Edmund Wetmore, 
Hon. William R. Willcox, 
Mr. Charles R. Wilson, 
Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson, 
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, 
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,- 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruflf. 



Each member of the committee refrains from nominating 
himself but concurs in the action of the Committee as to 
all other names. 

As the Mayors of all cities of the State are by statute 
made trustees ex-officio, their names are not submitted for 
election by the Commission. 

There are other distinguished members of the Commis- 
sion who would be desirable acquisitions to the board of 
trustees, but with the number of elective trustees limited by 



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the charter to one hundred, the Committee does not find it 
possible to nominate any of these gentlemen without dis- 
placing some of the present trustees whose services in the 
opinion of the Committee entitle them to a renomination. 

The Committee recommends an amendment to the Charter 
providing for fifty additional trustees to be elected by the 
Board of Trustees. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Theodore Fitch, Chairman, 
Herman Ridder, 
Henry W. Sackett, 
W. J. Curtis, 
John W. Vrooman, 

Nominations Committee. 
Dated March 24, 1909. 

It was voted that the report be approved and sent to 
the members of the Commission. 

Patriotic Societies Couunittee Report. 

Mr. Fitch, chairman of the Committee on Patriotic Socie- 
ties, reported that the committee had held two meetings and 
devoted its efforts to enlisting the interest of the Patriotic 
Societies in the celebration. Members had been delegated 
to see the officers of various societies for that purpose. The 
Society of the War of 1812 had declined to take part in 
the Historical Parade but had off'ered to act as guard of 
honor at the reviewing stand. 

Reception of Official Guests on September 25. 

In the absence of Mr. Seward on account of illness. Gen. 
Wilson reported in behalf of the Plan and Scope Committee 
making the following recommendations : 

1st. That the formal reception of foreign and American 
Naval vessels take place on Saturday, September 25, instead 
of Monday September 27; 

2nd. That the Half Moon and Clermont enter the river 
on Saturday, September 25 instead of Monday, September 
27, and that a night reception and pageant be given them off 
Riverside Park ; and 



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3rd. That the Mayor be requested to appoint a citizens' 
committee in each borough to forward the celebration. 

The report was received and the recommendations 
adopted. 

Report on Public Health and Convenience. 

Dr. Porter, chairman of the Committee on PubHc Heahh 
and Convenience, presented the following report : 

\\'hile the work which this committee could perform is 
almost unlimited, the following, with such additions and 
changes as the progress of the work itself may suggest, 
will add materially to the success of the celebration. The 
importance of this work more than justifies the expenses 
incidental to its proper accomplishment. 

This plan briefly provides for 

1st. The establishment of Comfort Stations. 

2nd. The establishment of iMedical Emergency Stations. 

3rd. Stations where small children can be cared for while 
their parents participate in the various functions of the 
celebration. 

4th. A Bureau of Information. 

5th. Bureaus of registration of visitors. 

Establishment of Comfort Stations: This city is sorely 
lacking in permanent comfort stations such as many Europ- 
ean cities have. The need of such stations will be strongly 
felt during the celebration with its vast crowds of visitors, 
and particularly along the line of the land parades and near 
the principal vantage points for viewing the Naval Parades. 
A number of such stations of a temporary character should 
be provided and this Committee believes that the proper 
city authorities can be prevailed upon to build them with- 
out expense to the Commission. Comfort Stations should 
also be provided for in the constructoin of all grand standi. 
The majority of office, store and other buildings along the 
hne of the parade having convenient toilet facilities can 
readily be prevailed upon to place the same at the service 
of the general public and this Committee plans to adopt a 
distinctive banner which will be used to denote all such 
buildings. This Committee would also arrange to have con- 
veniently located hospitals and dispensaries afford the same 
comfort facilities. 

Emergency and Medical Stations : The parades will brmg 
together great masses of people in confined spaces. In cases 
of sudden illness or injury it would be difficult to secure 
medical attendance particularly as most doctors will be out 



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vicAving the parades. To meet this situation this Committee 
will provide stations along the line of march with doctors 
and nurses in attendance. In this we would have the co- 
operation of the Red Cross, and other similar organizations 
and the various hospitals. Another feature of this emer- 
gency service would be the establishment of ambulance 
stations for the land parade and two or more motor 
launches with doctors and nurses aboard to patrol the 
course of the naval parades and crews among the excur- 
sion craft. 

Caring for Small Children so that the Parents Can Par- 
ticipate in the Celebration : This feature of our plan is prin- 
cipally for the convenience of the poorer residents of New 
York City and should do much to popularize the Celebration 
with the masses. It will be proof conclusive that the Com- 
mission desires to have all our people poor and rich alike 
participate in and enjoy the various functions of the Cele- 
bration. As the basis for this work there are the various 
day nurseries now in operation and the organizations which 
maintain these, together with other children's societies will 
be glad to co-operate in the establishment of as many addi- 
tional temporary nurseries as may be deemed necessary. 
Department stores will undoubtedly be glad to aid in this 
work. 

Bureau of Information: This will be of the greatest 
benefit to out of town visitors. A central bureau would 
handle all inquiries previous to the opening of the Celebra- 
tion when branches would be established at all railroad 
terminals and at the piers of the Hudson River and Sound 
Steamship Lines. Detailed information about hotels and 
boarding houses, their prices, accommodations, etc. ; the lo- 
cation of the places where the various ceremonies are to 
be held and how to reach them ; good vantage points to view 
the parades and how to reach them ; places of interest about 
the City and how to reach them, with possibly sight-seeing 
trips outlined ; cab rates, etc., would be carefully compiled 
in advance and distributed to visitors as they arrive or 
mailed on request. This information would be printed in 
an official programme and if advertising was accepted for 
the same it would more than pay for itself. 

Registration of Visitors : Arrangements would be made 
at the dififerent information bureaus to register visitors, in- 
cluding their home addresses and addresses while in towai. 
Those registering could have mail and telegrams forwarded 
to their temporary address and could be located by friends. 
These plans to provide for the comfort and convenience of 



March 24, 1909 975 

visitors and residents will be received with interest by the 
public at large and consequently v^dll be given wide publicity 
by the press. They should help materially in attracting 
crowds of people to the Celebration. They represent a ma- 
terial expression of the Commission's hospitality. 

Dr. Porter said that when their plans w^ere further ad- 
vanced, the Committee would ask the Trustees for an appro- 
priation. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Upper Hudson Couunittec. 

Col. MacArthur, Chairman of the Upper Hudson Com- 
mittee, reported that the work of his Committee during the 
past month had been principally missionary labors with the 
finance committee of the Senate. The latter seemed to be 
favorable to the appropriation but had taken no definite 
action up to date. He said it was quite essential to the 
work of the Upper Hudson Committee to know upon what 
money they could count. He wished that ex-Lieut. 
Governor Woodruff, who was present, would exercise his 
good ofiices in the matter. 

The Acting President said that Mr. Woodruff would put 
the whole Commission under obligation if he would assist 
in the matter. 

]\Ir. Woodruff said that h. had already talked with sev- 
eral members of the Finance Committee and that they were 
favorably disposed, but the difficulty was that they could 
not comply with the requests of everyone; and they could 
not decide upon questions like this until they knew what 
was absolutely necessary for the government. It was true, 
they had voted $275,000 for the State Fair ; but the reason 
for that was that money was needed for buildings which lc 
was necessary to begin at once. He said he would do all 
he could to secure the Hudson-Fulton appropriation. 

Verplanck's Point Park. 

Mr. Pugsley, chairman of the Verplanck's Point Park 
Committee, reported that he had attended a hearing on the 
park bill before the Ways and Means Committee of the 



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Assembly and the Finance Committee of the Senate the 
previous day and there was a fair prospect of an appro- 
priation of from $25,000 to $40,000 for the purpose. 

Expenditure Authorised for Orgaiti.ziiig Brooklyn Work. 

The Secretary laid before the Trustees a letter from Mr. 
John B. Creighton, Secretary of the Brooklyn League, 
dated March 17, and addressed to the Acting President, 
stating that at a meeting of the editors of the Brooklyn 
daily papers held March 15, under direction of Hon. St. 
Clair McKelway, he was asked to communicate to the Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration Commission the proposition to 
organize Brooklyn for the Celebration under the super- 
vision of the Commission. The plan contemplated the form- 
ation of a citizens' committee with a Secretary, who should 
be an assistant to the Secretary of this Commission, located 
in Brooklyn. The editors had recommended that Mr. 
Creighton act as such Secretary and he was willing to do so 
at a salary of $250 a month. A part of the office of the 
Brooklyn League, together with typewriter machine, desk 
and telephone connections, could be had at a nominal 
rental of $25 a month. In addition to this, it would be 
necessary for the Commission to supply a typist, and pay 
for the necessary postage and stationery. 

It was voted that, subject to the action of the State Civil 
Service Commission, Mr. Creighton be engaged as Assistant 
to the Secretary at a salary of $250 a month, beginning 
April I St. 

It was also voted that the payment of $25 a month for 
office rental, the salary of a stenographer at the rate of $75 
a month, and the necessary expense of postage and station- 
ery, be authorized for the Brooklyn work. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Secretary. 
Edward FIagaman Hall, 

Assistant Secretary. 



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